The Professionalization of Mental Health Services Is Ruining Friendship
The Professionalization of Mental Health Services Is Ruining Friendship 9228 We’ve all heard the hand-wringing about the loneliness crisis on the rise in the United States; one in five of us Millennials say they have no friends and over half of us said it’s because we’re shy and so it’s hard to make friends. Amazingly, almost 30% of us said it’s because we “don’t feel like we need friends.” I don’t relate to that last one at all. Though I do resonate with some other theories about why my generation may be driving the loneliness numbers up—social media over-reliance, the pe...