The Therapy Epidemic: When Paid Support Replaces Real Connection

"Should I go to therapy?" sounds simple until you realize you might be asking the wrong question entirely. What if the normalized path to mental health support has become an escape from something more fundamental you're meant to face?

Paying someone for emotional support has become easier than looking a friend in the eye and admitting struggle. This paid vulnerability feels safer than real connection, yet perpetuates the isolation it claims to solve—emotional outsourcing that replaces what friendship should provide.

Going to therapy now requires less courage than going to church. Meanwhile, your sadness, anxiety, and fear are being medicalized as disorders when they may be invitations into deeper transformation.

Before rushing toward professional help, there are critical questions about duration, severity, and who's already in your life. This episode reveals when therapy becomes genuinely necessary versus when it's an expensive substitute for the vulnerability you're avoiding.

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