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The Therapy Addiction Trap: Why You Never Get 'Cured' Anymore!

In 2025, Americans spent over $300 billion on mental health treatment, yet rates of anxiety, depression, and psychological disability continue to rise. While therapy is marketed as “healing,” the data suggests a more disturbing reality: modern mental health systems may be optimized for retention, not recovery. This isn’t a failure of individual therapists. It’s the emergence of a treatment economy that quietly transforms short-term distress into lifelong dependency. Unlike past medical models aimed at cure, today’s therapeutic industry is structured around ongoing management, subscription-based care, and permanent patient identities. 🔍 What You’ll Discover: Why the average therapy client now stays in treatment 2–3 times longer than in the 1980s How diagnostic expansion turned everyday stress into billable mental disorders Why “healing is a lifelong journey” became the industry’s most profitable slogan How insurance models financially reward continuation over resolution The psychological mechanism that converts insight into dependency rather than agency 📊 Key Statistics Revealed: Antidepressant use in the U.S. has increased over 400% since the early 1990s Nearly 60% of therapy clients report no measurable improvement after one year Patients who begin therapy before age 18 are twice as likely to remain in treatment as adults Mental health apps and teletherapy platforms report record retention rates, not recovery outcomes This analysis goes beyond anti-therapy talking points to examine how institutional incentives reshape mental health outcomes. We explore how diagnostic inflation, liability culture, and insurance reimbursement structures quietly discourage closure — creating a system where being “in progress” is safer than being cured. The evidence suggests a subtle but systemic shift: emotional suffering is no longer something to be resolved, but something to be managed indefinitely. In a system where therapists are measured by continuity and platforms are valued by monthly users, the concept of “cure” becomes not just unrealistic — but economically inconvenient.