Andy Schreiber

“No industry refuses the prospect of exponential growth, and mental health experts are no exception. By feeding normal kids with normal problems into an unending pipeline, the mental health industry is minting patients faster than it can cure them.”
― Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

“Claims from experts that they know—or more laughably, that they care—what’s best for our kids with anything comparable to the degree that we do ought to be met with derision, contempt, the creeps.”
― Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

“Instead, with unprecedented help from mental health experts, we have raised the loneliest, most anxious, depressed, pessimistic, helpless, and fearful generation on record. Why?”
― Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

“This is a remarkably sturdy research finding: kids are happiest when raised in a loving environment that holds their behavior to high standards, expects them to contribute meaningfully to the household, and is willing to punish when behavior falls short. And it flies in the face of virtually everything therapists and parenting books now exhort.”
― Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up