This is intriguing... tho what 'seekers' are doing may not be the same as identity formation as usually conceived by the psychologists. Worth finding out

Is behavioral optimism really an emotion?

wow I've made some comparable errors on the train in my time and never once have they actually charged me anything

Or maybe just an attempt to write Hari Seldon's seminal paper on Psychohistory, in a grounded, non-fictional way

Most entertaining entry - "Cliodynamics 100 years on: Psychology's integral role in the study of predicting the future, in the future"

Thanks to Liza Muscovice & @goatswhostare.bsky.social for organizing, and to my co-presenter @bernhardvoelkl.bsky.social

time for DAGs!

I have a theory about this as well, which is that the US, stupid as it can be, has a big population, still quite liberal for the world stage, and overweighted online pull. So there are lots of US pro therapy progressive types online, they do get surfaced a lot, and that gives the impression

That its gone up so rapidly is quite interesting I think, and I could again imagine some reasons, but who can say why.

I wouldn't say this is an outlier, its just at the top of the range - Iceland probably proscribes them more (Aus isn't far off either - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...). I could come up with a few other reasons why the US would be likely to have more anti-dep use, some of which you've named.

How is that implicitly suggested?
Or maybe what I'm wondering is how do you define 'true need'?

Hah, I've not seen this before.

Probably comes from some sort of self-compassion or gratitude practice that people who came through a more enlightened educational pipeline learned.