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America’s Obsession With Mental Illness Is A Mental Illness

Thank You For Sharing exposes how the mental health industry thrives off of telling people that their worst behaviors can be excused because of ‘illness.’

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Our culture has an unhealthy obsession with mental illness, and the Lindsay Clancy trial is just the latest reminder. Children and adults alike build their entire personalities around their perceived illnesses, whether by going to therapy five days a week or identifying as transgender. Thank You For Sharing, the newest film from director Sonia Zawitkowski, argues that this alleged crisis is predominantly artificial.

The documentary tracks how we invented and gradually expanded the concept of mental health. It exposes how the modern field of medicine, originally centered around soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, has spiralled into an industry that encourages children to take wrong-sex hormones, get hooked on SSRIs, and rebuild their identities around their perceived illness. 

For decades, the corporate media have pushed the narrative that we are caught in a mental health crisis. As Thank You For Sharing argues, the problem isn’t that mental health doesn’t get enough attention but that it gets far too much attention. The industry is extremely predatory, seeking out vulnerable people and coaxing them into believing they need treatment. 

In a recent report from the Department of Health and Human Services, titled “Wolves in White Coats,” the Trump administration exposed how doctors and other medical professionals encourage young people to pursue transgender procedures. Doctors diagnose their young patients with gender dysphoria, setting them on a path to “transition” that will cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of their lives. The cost of long-term cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and surgeries can cost........

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