Remember when childhood was supposed to be carefree? When skinned knees were badges of honor, not trauma? When kids roamed neighborhoods unsupervised and somehow survived to tell the tale? Those days are long gone, replaced by a sanitized, over-monitored, therapy-saturated childhood that’s producing a generation of anxious, depressed young people ill-equipped to handle life’s inevitable challenges. At least, that’s the provocative argument at the heart of Abigail Shrier’s incendiary new book “Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up.” With her characteristic blend of meticulous reporting and sharp commentary, Shrier takes aim at what she sees as the true culprit behind the youth mental health crisis: not social media or academic pressure, but the mental health industry itself. A Damning Diagnosis Shrier, best known for her controversial bestseller “Irreversible Damage” about transgender youth, doesn’t pull any punches in her latest work. She argues that well-meaning but misguided mental health professionals, educators, and parents have inadvertently stunted children’s emotional growth through excessive coddling, accommodation, and medicalization of normal childish behavior. The result? A generation of young …