Freya India

So you think of all the kind of characteristics of religion, we just mimic them with therapy culture. So instead of praying, we just repeat our positive affirmations. Instead of seeking salvation, you'll go on a healing journey. Instead of resisting temptation from the devil, you'll reframe your intrusive thoughts.

And so I think for young women in particular who are becoming less religious, this kind of therapeutic worldview has completely replaced that void.

And so I think for young women in particular who are becoming less religious, this kind of therapeutic worldview has completely replaced that void.

And so I think for young women in particular who are becoming less religious, this kind of therapeutic worldview has completely replaced that void.

Like seeing problems in your life, kind of pathologizing problems and experiences as something medical rather than I'm just experiencing this emotion or kind of age-old anxiety. Now it's become a medical issue. So things like talking in the language of attachment styles and trauma and losing the language of just ordinary hurt and disappointment and things like that.

Like seeing problems in your life, kind of pathologizing problems and experiences as something medical rather than I'm just experiencing this emotion or kind of age-old anxiety. Now it's become a medical issue. So things like talking in the language of attachment styles and trauma and losing the language of just ordinary hurt and disappointment and things like that.

Like seeing problems in your life, kind of pathologizing problems and experiences as something medical rather than I'm just experiencing this emotion or kind of age-old anxiety. Now it's become a medical issue. So things like talking in the language of attachment styles and trauma and losing the language of just ordinary hurt and disappointment and things like that.

I think it gives the comfort religion gives and the consolation of like, you see young women on TikTok saying things like, like they won't pray to God, but they'll give a request to the universe and like have faith in that. And so I think it gives all the comfort of religion, but it takes away the inconvenient parts.

I think it gives the comfort religion gives and the consolation of like, you see young women on TikTok saying things like, like they won't pray to God, but they'll give a request to the universe and like have faith in that. And so I think it gives all the comfort of religion, but it takes away the inconvenient parts.

I think it gives the comfort religion gives and the consolation of like, you see young women on TikTok saying things like, like they won't pray to God, but they'll give a request to the universe and like have faith in that. And so I think it gives all the comfort of religion, but it takes away the inconvenient parts.

So the, any actual demands on you or kind of restrictions on your freedom or anything like that.

So the, any actual demands on you or kind of restrictions on your freedom or anything like that.

So the, any actual demands on you or kind of restrictions on your freedom or anything like that.

So it has what women are craving in modern life, I think, which is belonging and security in something and faith in something. But it's a much easier version of religion.

So it has what women are craving in modern life, I think, which is belonging and security in something and faith in something. But it's a much easier version of religion.

So it has what women are craving in modern life, I think, which is belonging and security in something and faith in something. But it's a much easier version of religion.

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a lot. There was a study recently showing 32% of all 12 to 17 year olds in America have either had therapy, been on medication or had some kind of treatment in 2023. Over a single year.