Are We Thinking Ourselves Sick?
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A new movie, ‘Thank You for Sharing,’ explores the boom in mental health care, and asks why we’re all still so miserable despite it.
When I was 23, my roommate, who worked in sales but had majored in psychology, caught me in the midst of an internet rabbit hole and told me she thought I was on the autism spectrum. I laughed, but she said that she was serious, and started ticking off my symptoms: I often didn’t make eye contact with people when I spoke to them, I had a nervous tic tha…
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