Instagram therapy can be as futile or as useful as reading self-help books.
A 2017 report by The National Institute of Mental Health showed that only 42 percent of the 46.6 million adults with some kind of mental illness in the US received mental health services.
Expense, lack of proper health insurance, and a shortfall of certified experts remain the prime causes for this discrepancy.
If you scroll through Dr. Nicole LePera’s Instagram feed, you will find information worthy of being called therapeutic.
Superficiality and sanctimonious expectations, a result of the wellness bubble that the so-called ‘Instagram influencers’ have created, are further undermining whatever good work Instagram therapy is doing.
On Instagram, there are many who give knowledge that is not an outcome of their own exploration or training but is simply a pastiche of credible mental health experts.