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Why the Kids Aren’t Alright with Abigail Shrier

2024/5/21
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Abigail Shrier: 我认为我们现在面临的困境源于大量的‘不良疗法’。不良疗法指的是任何会引入新的症状或加重现有症状的疗法。我们不断地告诉孩子们,他们的感受最重要。当我们不断询问他们的感受,不断追问他们是否快乐时,我们实际上是在焦虑于他们的快乐。我们让快乐成为目标,而这恰恰是导致不快乐的方式。我们教导孩子们永远不要忽视任何痛苦,因此他们无法做到这一点。 我们让孩子们过度关注自己的情绪,将他们视为与众不同且孤立的个体,从未让他们意识到自己的行为会对他人产生影响。我们为普通行为贴上诊断标签,例如,将课堂上的调皮捣蛋诊断为‘对立违抗障碍’,以此来将他们的行为视为大脑问题,让他们觉得自己对此无能为力。我们教导他们始终关注快乐和幸福。如果我们这样做,最终就会得到我们现在所看到的结果:一代情绪失调的年轻人。 父母对自身养育孩子的能力缺乏信心,过度依赖所谓的专家,这使得他们更容易接受那些并非基于科学的建议,例如,认为任何对孩子的责备都会造成终生的创伤。这些因素削弱了父母的权威,导致他们无法对孩子进行有效的管教。 学校也参与其中,他们推行‘社会情感学习’项目,其本意是教导孩子情绪管理,但实际上却加剧了孩子的情绪失调。这些项目过度关注孩子的情绪,并对父母进行批判。 总而言之,心理健康专家主导了儿童和家庭的生活,孩子们用精神病理学的语言来理解自己和他人,父母也模仿着治疗师和心理学家的技巧与孩子沟通。这种做法并不自然,也不利于孩子的心理健康发展。 Shane Parish: 在与Abigail Shrier的对话中,我们探讨了如何才能培养出心理健康且有能力的孩子,以及我们如何才能培养出心理不稳定孩子的反面例子。我们还探讨了治疗师与孩子或成人之间关系的利弊,以及父母在面对孩子心理健康问题时可以采取的措施。我们还讨论了社会趋势对心理健康的影响,以及技术和社交媒体在其中的作用。Abigail Shrier分享了其他文化在养育孩子方面的不同方法,以及我们可以从他们的成功中学到什么。我们还讨论了心理健康领域的问题,从优先考虑意识形态而非个人需求的规程,到培养出‘不良治疗师’的研究生院。通过倾听本集内容,您将更深入地了解影响儿童心理健康的复杂因素,以及我们可以采取哪些措施来重新设计我们对治疗和育儿的方法。Abigail Shrier的见解将使您能够做出明智的决定,并倡导改变一个至少根据数据来看正在让我们的年轻人失望的系统。

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Investigative journalist Abigail Shrier reveals an uncomfortable truth: our culture's overwhelming embrace of therapy might be harming the next generation. In this thought-provoking conversation, she challenges conventional wisdom about mental health, drawing from extensive research and disturbing patterns among lifelong therapy patients.

Learn when therapy helps, when it hurts, and how successful parents navigate emotional resilience in their children.

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(00:00) Intro

(05:44) Inverse: How do we raise mentally unstable kids?

(08:29) How we got to now

(11:45) Bad therapy...or just social trends?

(13:21) Being your kids' friend: good or bad?

(15:55) The parenting type that raises the BEST kids

(21:35) Is this all the parents' fault?

(29:53) Is "Bad Therapy" a world-wide problem?

(32:57) Talk to your kids' therapist about these things

(42:09) The importance of facing adversity in childhood

(47:06) Can we blame grad schools for all of this?

(49:14) On technology and social media

(51:03) Schools should "never" have gotten involved in mental health

(54:43) Did COVID accelerate "bad therapy?"

(56:07) How to return to normalcy

(58:21) Why Shane shares negative YouTube comments with his kids

(01:01:23) Shrier's experience being "cancelled"

(01:04:13) On prestige media

(01:07:47) Small steps parents can take to return to normal

(01:11:02) Dealing with schools saying one thing and parents saying another

(01:13:32) Why is the silent majority...silent?

(01:16:32) If this continues, what happens?

(01:18:19) What makes someone a successful parent?

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