The Problem of Online Therapy Culture

The Internet seems like a powerful weapon for distorting mental health wisdom.

Follow a train of thought with me.

1) Many people in the West today, possibly even a majority, suffer from stress, anxiety, and a general mental malaise.

1a) For a minority of these people, their symptoms rise to the broadly accepted clinical definitions of depression, PTSD, etc.

1b) For the rest, the stress, anxiety, and malaise is attributable to…