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The Twentysomething Treatment: A Revolutionary Remedy for an Uncertain Age

The Twentysomething Treatment: A Revolutionary Remedy for an Uncertain Age

Jay, Meg

Hardcover

CognitionGeneral PsychologyMental Health

Publisher Price: $28.99

ISBN10: 1668012294
ISBN13: 9781668012291
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: Apr 9 2024
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
The author of The Defining Decade explains why the twenties are the most challenging time of life and reveals essential skills for handling the uncertainties surrounding work, love, friendship, mental health, and more during that decade and beyond.

There is a young adult mental health crisis in America. So many twentysomethings are struggling--especially with anxiety, depression, and substance use--yet, as a culture, we are not sure what to think or do about it. Perhaps, it is said, young adults are snowflakes who melt when life turns up the heat. Or maybe, some argue, they're triggered for no reason at all. Yet, even as we trivialize twentysomething struggles, we are quick to pathologize them and to hand out diagnoses and medications.

Medication is sometimes, but not always, the best medicine. For twenty-five years, Meg Jay has worked as a clinical psychologist who specializes in twentysomethings, and here she argues that most don't have disorders that must be treated: they have problems that can be solved. In these pages, she offers a revolutionary remedy that upends the medicalization of twentysomething life and advocates instead for skills over pills.

In The Twentysomething Treatment, Jay teaches us:

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