Last summer, when Jonah Hill made headlines for his serious misuse of therapyspeak in leaked texts to his then-girlfriend, we at the Cut wondered: Are we over therapy? Has all this talk of “boundaries” and “attachment styles” started to seem cringe, exhausting, or simply unhelpful? When I asked health writer Melissa Dahl what she has observed, she confessed that she, too, had recently stopped going. For this insightful story kicking off our weeklong series about falling out of love with therapy, she spoke with fellow quitters, people like her “who have been helped by talk therapy but are in the mood for a less examined life.” What she found is that, after years of being told that attending therapy is virtually a requirement for leading a happy life, people are craving alternatives. Or maybe we’re just tired of talking about ourselves so much.

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