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Therapy Culture

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Cultural phenomenon discussed as having increasingly dominated discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic, characterized by reframing all experiences positively and sanitizing discomfort.

Mentions (9)
"I have had colleagues and acquaintances tell me about how they go to therapy and their mental problems and then ask me what kind of therapy I like. Son, I don't believe in therapy, and you should keep that to yourself unless its relevant to the conversation. If it's something I need to know that's f"
Oversharing is normalized and I hate it · mrshitter69 · ↑585 · 2023-04-20
"I don't have much to say it just rubs me the wrong way I see ppl talk about it on social media. I kinda hate it."
Therapy culture is weird · u/Obvious-Beautiful89 · ↑125 · 2023-01-17
"I don't think everyone is being evangelized into therapy in earnest. I think it's autists who get told by indifferent family/friends/coworkers: 'have you considered therapy?' and interpreting it literally instead of as a gentle way of saying, 'stop talking to me about this shit.'"
I think therapy culture is overblown · u/NoIntention3515 · ↑120 · 2024-08-03
"The first one was a Black Muslim espousing a syncretism between Islam and therapy culture ("mindfulness"). For example, he informed the crowd that "hurt people hurt people," hence the behavior of the Israelis."
"Reddit humor and therapy culture: the movie"
Everything Everywhere All At Once sucked · u/mechanizedmynahbird · ↑73 · 2023-03-03
"Seems like the type of people who like the show are just therapy culture obsessed. Just a cesspool of therapy speak and arm chair diagnosing."
"therapy culture gone awry, now everyone is blabbering on about their bullshit "generational trauma." your parents beating you for low grades is not "child abuse" by any stretch of the imagination"
everything everywhere all at once is peak therapy culture · u/passionberries · ↑35 · 2023-03-13
"Everything is being reframed as good no matter how terrible, every tragedy or terrible event has to be sanitized and reframed to not make anyone feel uncomfortable. Before I would notice this online but its like the internet and reality and melded together in this frightening way, even the people I "
"Bodies Bodies Bodies is populated by an annoying cast of characters who appear to be terminally online and throw around way too much therapy culture vocab."
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