Nick Spencer speaks with Wall Street Journal writer Abigail Shrier. 21/05/2024

Pretty much every index for the mental health of young people in Britain and the US in particular is pointing in the wrong direction. More anxiety, more depression, more therapy, more medication, more suicide.

Why? What is going on here? And why is it that the vast increase in spending on mental health – on counselling, therapy and drugs over recent decades seems to have made no difference whatsoever?

In this week’s episode, Nick Spencer speaks to Abigail Shrier about her book Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up

Buy a copy of the book here.

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