02/07/2026
People certainly need to think for themselves. I had to learn. Think for Yourself also happens to be a great Beatles tune on Rubber Soul.
More young adults than ever are caught in a cycle of doing nothing but following directions for a perfect result in life. Which is impossible to attain and anxiety producing at a minimum. And it keeps happening.
The more you can think for yourself and deal with mistakes, the more control you have and the more esteem you will have because you figured it out.
This has changed over the course of 30 something years with the onset of helicopter, snowplow, and the new trailing parenting. Kids have not been allowed to develop their own thinking.
Parenting has definitely become more difficult in the modern age AND the success culture often seen isn’t breeding better mental health either.
I always find it interesting when pundits who lack credentials of any kind and no mental health training whatsoever try and accuse therapists of causing the mental health crisis-yes, you heard that right!
That’s quite a statement coming from them, influencers without a clue, or fauxfluencers as I see them. They have quite an agenda, btw, GTFOH.
Some influencers also like to pin negative “therapeutic” trends on therapists, that’s the rise we have been seeing.
They complain and deride a generation or two of young adults but like to accuse therapists for being the problem when we would be lucky to get enough hours to have more impact. We deal with what is created in families and most clinicians would attest to this I feel. Just sayin’ - rant over.
“Figure it out for yourself” from Life or Brian (courtesy of George Harrison) is a good way to think about life.
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