To think therapy culture is turning self-reflection into self-obsession?

I think this is where things can get a bit murky. I agree with you but I also agree a bit with the poster you've quoted because you need both validation and accountability for introspection to be meaningful.

My experience with therapy and my experience of friends and family who have had therapy is that there's a huge onus on validation, but accountability can only come from within, and it's painful to hold yourself accountable a lot of the time.

Without accountability, it can just lead to selfishness.

Not when it is self serving
Everyone is different. Some will learn how to be empathic and others will stay with a victim mentality. They lose their loved ones, not because they're a victim but their negativity and self loathing is hard to be around.
You see things in very black and white, individuals have different emotional responses to situations.

🤣That is just ridiculous.Its the opposite,individuals learn how the human mind works and thus how others will be be thinking and processing , it’s healthy.

I don't think it does. The very word "introspection" means to look inward. When individuals are overly focused on their own thoughts, feelings and problems, they struggle to see situations from another person's perspective or tune in to social and emotional cues, which are necessary for empathy. As I said in my first post, pathologising everything that life throws at us can induce a constant state of victimhood, and victimhood is rarely compatible with empathy.

Therapy does facilitate self-awareness and self-care in some people, which they can extend to others.

For other people, therapy seems to encourage ruminating introspection and self-absorption that perpetuates a victim mentality, which doesn't leave them with enough bandwidth to think about others.

Both of those are separate from TikTok trash.

“ If you are constantly analysing your own insecurities, you cannot possibly develop the tools to recognise the pain in others. You will basically be a perpetual "victim".

That is complete rubbish. Analysing your own insecurities makes you much better equipped to recognise pain in others .

Clearly. I have generations in my family that struggle with it including myself and my children. I also have many years experience of working with children who have the condition .

Yes, I think "therapy culture" has gone too far and ultimately isn't helping anyone. You can't pathologise everything in life to the 'nth degree. Ironically I think it leads to an unhealthy view of what sadness, setbacks, real trauma and even happiness actually are. I also believe that constant self introspection is the path to selfishness. If you are constantly analysing your own insecurities, you cannot possibly develop the tools to recognise the pain in others. You will basically be a perpetual "victim".

Call it life experience.
We obviously live very different lives, different experiences on the situation

Rewatching the peep show and ordering enough naan breads to keep those feelings buried deep down in your stomach.

Take my advice with a pinch of salt. I'm not a therapist, and I'm still figuring out whether it actually works.

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So what’s the answer then? Because 6 sessions of CBT ain’t it.

You have zero evidence for any of that.

Yes two of my children have lives seriously impacted by it.

It is a spectrum, some people who have adhd can't function enough for cooking or washing themselves or even leave the house due to anxiety.

Of course. I didn't say all children or adults with adhd come from chaotic homes. In many cases children from dysfunctional households are misdiagnosed with ADHD due to their behaviour and lack of boundaries, out on the street from toddlers, breaking up things, never told no.
Unless they grow out of it. I have seen many wild children who get diagnosed and within a few years in a school environment, with rules, boundaries and food, they change, no longer staring at ipads, living on sugar.
Try an ipad and sugar diet for a few weeks.
I re-read my post, it did come across that I meant all cases, just as many argue against environmental factors. I agree that it can be both neurology and environmental.
Both of my dc have genetic disorders that are commonly misdiagnosed/cross diagnosed as ASD.

I supervise counsellors, including school counsellors, and I agree.

No, she's making a sweeping generalisation about the cause of ADHD. Though I'm sure she can speak for herself if she really meant something other than what she said.

The poster is questioning whether it’s more likely in a disfunctional home - it may be that the disfunctional
home means that it’s harder for the child to develop their own coping mechanisms

Yep mine included. All my children have it as do I. Very stable, healthy home- vegetarian, outdoorsy and 3 degrees between my husband and I.

The ignorance on this subject is massive.

Some of us never learnt how to sit with the discomfort unfortunately. Therapy has enabled me to relearn that, YABVU.

Many children with good diets, happy homes and stable families are diagnosed with ADHD.

And here lies the most ignorant post ever on the subject.🤣

It depends. Some people really need it and resist it. Some people go to therapy and change their life and some people use therapy to learn therapy speak and use that to manipulate and centre themselves.

Many argue that ADHD has a lot of environmental factors.
I agree with it, especially locally, many children with bad diets, hectic homes, dysfunctional family are diagnosed with ADHD. If you took half of them into a calm healthy environment, they'd be different children, similarly with adult's.