India, May 26 -- Over the past few years, social media and now AI have quietly become people's first therapist. Before they speak to a professional, they've already consumed hundreds of reels, quotes, carousels, podcasts or spoken to GPT telling them how they should think, feel, heal, forgive, detach, glow up and move on. On the surface, this looks like progress because we at least feel mental health is finally being talked about openly. But inside therapy rooms, we're seeing the other side of this shift. The side no one posts about. In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Arouba Kabir, an emotional and mental health expert and founder of Enso Wellness, shared the other side of this self-help content.

Arouba said, "Self-help content often sel...