Comment by ecshafer
7 days ago
Would increasing funding for therapy help any of those issues? Ignoring that very low efficacy of therapy and the arguments if funding it is worthwhile at all. The American people had fewer issues with school shootings and loneliness and drug abuse when we had even fewer therapists and therapy was something for people in mental asylums, that no respectable person would admit going to.
Worst case is that we come out on the other end knowing more about the problem. This doesn't have to be 1:1 therapy, research has never been incredibly well funded and it's being dramatically reduced right now.
Consider that after school shootings, sometimes therapists have to volunteer their time to provide trauma counseling.
Every social worker I've met has at one point volunteered time to help someone because we exist in a system where they're not valued for wanting to help.