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The depressed rich

This article about rich therapy patients was more interesting than I thought it would be. Here’s one doctor describing the patients he sees:

It used to be that my patients were the children of the rich: inheritors, people who suffered from the neglect of jet-setting parents or from the fear that no matter what they did, they would never measure up to their father’s accomplishments,” he recalled. “Now I see so many young people โ€” people in their 30s and 40s โ€” who’ve made the money themselves.