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Posted on 06/22/2025 5:31:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The unrest in Los Angeles isn’t just about politics. It is a symptom of something deeper: a national collapse of resilience.
Behind the protests lies a broader crisis, a fragile mindset that mistakes discomfort for danger, grievance for identity, and emotional reactivity for truth.
New polling reveals a striking psychological divide: 45 percent of liberals report poor mental health, compared to just 19 percent of conservatives. This is not about ideology. It reflects two competing visions of how Americans are being taught to face adversity.
As a psychotherapist practicing in New York City and Washington, D.C., I have seen firsthand how therapy has changed over the years. Once a tool for building resilience and fostering growth, it has increasingly become a system that rewards victimhood and reinforces vulnerability. Today’s therapy culture pathologizes ordinary discomfort as trauma and treats accountability as incompatible with emotional safety.
One woman told me her previous therapist urged her to quit a new job after only one week because it “triggered” her. The real issue was difficulty taking directions. But instead of confronting it, the therapist simply validated her discomfort.
Another patient was told that setting “healthy boundaries” meant cutting off her entire family. No conversation, no healing — just isolation framed as progress.
This is not therapy. It is enabling.
This mindset goes well beyond the therapy room. It spills into classrooms, workplaces, media and now the streets. When people are conditioned to see themselves as perpetual victims and feel aggrieved, that inner turmoil eventually erupts into public unrest.
Take the recent “No Kings” protests, loosely organized around anti-monarchy themes. These demonstrations erupted across major cities without clear demands or coherent goals. They were not political movements, but emotional releases shaped by a culture that values validation over responsibility and reaction over resilience.
In my practice, I see a growing pattern, especially among younger patients. Many now view the world through a rigid binary of safe versus unsafe, oppressor versus oppressed. While that lens may offer clarity, it ultimately stunts growth, fuels anxiety and deepens social division. Emotional strength is mistaken for aggression. Assertiveness is labeled harm. Coping is no longer a virtue.
More concerning, this worldview is being institutionalized. From diversity, equity and inclusion training centered on personal grievance to college campuses where opposing views are treated as psychological threats, we are cultivating a generation that expects the world to adapt to their emotions rather than learning how to adapt to the world.
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Poor mental health among “liberals” (leftists) is no surprise to me. I think much of the problem starts with leftist teachers.
Put the blame where it belongs, on parents. People institutionalize their kids from infancy. Right now a fancy daycare ( they call them schools these days) is going up near me with a sign that says it’s program is for 2 year olds on up. Other people put even younger infants in institutions. No wonder the kids come out damaged.
Working 12-steps to face workday challenges may be better than extreme reliance on ‘therapy’ or ‘therapists’ I won’t totally diss them but we have decades of softening thinking out there people unable to stop drugging themselves.
People unable to ‘bear their crosses’ as the Good Book says and survive and thrive in everyday situations.
A lot of parents don’t know how to be parents.
A lot of schools don’t know how to teach.
A lot of psychologists don’t know how people ought to think or behave.
And in the workplace, a lot of managers don’t know how to manage.
We seem to have incompetence at all levels, and there is unfortunate synergy between these things so that any attempt to improve anything will “trigger” immediate opposition to the proposed improvement. We are not allowed to fix anything. We just get worse.
Keep feeding them SSRI’s and boosters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APwfZYO1di4
When a contagious disease arrives, our bodies fight the disease. A few lose the fight and die. Most win the fight and become stronger, healthier in the future.
An athletic team has practice games and then games that count against the opposition. The win some. They lose some. From the process of winning and losing the team members become better at playing the game.
Struggle, opposition, resistance has been the way to improve for thousands of years and is the old culture.
The new culture avoids conflict, defines conflict and struggle and opposition as “the Problem”.
Then, when face with “the Problem” people of the new culture are not prepared to understand or handle it.
That’s correct, sadly.
Gee, let me think ... throw God out of your country and guess who comes in?
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Excellent article.
Thank you for posting it.
Our government pays richly for those who get certain mental health diagnoses.
BTTT
It's one of the smartest things I've ever done.
It strengthened and empowered me.
The first psychotherapist was a wonderful man, who helped me clarify my thinking and rely on my innate strength and judgment and to value truth above all else. He saved my life.
The second was also a wonderful man, an ex-Marine who had had countless priceless experiences. He was expert at thinking outside the box. He taught me to do so also. In addition to a doctorate degree, he had a masters degree in human sexuality and had had vast personal experiences in the field. He taught me to defeat migraine headaches that had always plagued me, via hypnosis and then self-hypnosis, and how to achieve other valuable things the same way. He told me that Jesus was never far from him, and, as he lay dying, he was completely happy and excited about the afterlife to come.
What both of these men gave me is priceless.
They taught me the power, beauty, and value of my inherent gifts, including the priceless gifts of masculinity and my other inalienable endowments.
Today, I have a life I wish everyone could have: wealth, family, happiness, married to the same wonderful woman for 65 years, children, grandchildren.
I look back on a long, fabulous life.
I feel profound gratitude to these two men who helped me find my way,
And who taught me, among many other things, the greatest value of all: my faith in God--and His faith in me!
Psychotherapy is something wonderful.
It's not psychotherapy that's dangerous, it's nutcase psychotherapists. Many people lack the wit to understand the virtue of strength and the folly of weakness.
Therapy is addictive. It becomes a crutch that you can’t let go.
It works for the therapist. Their patients never improve. In fact, they may get more neurotic, meaning a need for more therapy. Cha-ching. If you help them work through their issue, then eventually they don’t need you anymore. Can’t have that. It’s easier to just validate their neurosis and keep them on the books.
We are at the easy times create weak men stage.
He is so right.
Excellent points.
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