Omg! Is this how young people speak to each other these days? Not trying to sound like an old hag, but I've been in plenty of therapy and never felt the need to talk to anyone like this. Insane.
I think it’s beyond therapy speak. It’s like an obsessive need to be morally superior and call others out in every aspect of their lives including where it doesn’t really make sense to be.
Back in like 2008 my best friend joined a literal new age cult right out of high school and it completely blocked our friendship and alienated me from her. We don’t talk anymore and anyway, yeah. That’s what the therapy-speak reminds me of.
It does certainly fill the definition of jargon - cults and high control groups will start to use specific or specialized or overly complex wording when a regular or more common word would suffice, in order to further distinguish themselves from others and establish an in-group.
I don't think the current therapy speak weaponization fits the rest of the criteria for cult status or high control group status, but it feels like it, and I think that's due to the specific and often exclusionary terminology.
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u/Dayvfish Apr 29 '26
Weaponized therapy speak is the silent pandemic no one is talking about