Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-264) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the twentysomething treatment -- Why now?. An uncertain age ; The nocebo effect ; Why medication is not always the best medicine ; Why the time for how is now -- Now what?. How to think ; How to feel ; How to work ; How to be social ; How to befriend ; How to love ; How to have sex ; How to move ; How to cook ; How to change ; How to decide ; How to choose purpose -- What next?. The tonic of hope -- Epilogue: an uncertain embrace.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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