Reminds me of something I heard, it might have been during the first lockdown but it could have been before that, about young people suffering a "lack of access to mental health resources" or somesuch, and it made me think, fuck, whatever happened to friends? I mean I'm not knocking the benefits of counsellors and therapists per se, but there was something about the phrasing, that combination of therapy-speak with the, I guess, neoliberal outlook of everyone being a
client, which is to say a
consumer, that really leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
A friend of mine who used to work for a London borough in the housing office, trying to sort out accommodation for people who were homeless or were about to be, who referred to them as 'clients' - not through his own choice, that was the official terminology. Always struck me as weird. I think it's much the same in
@WashYourHands's line of work - is that right?