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Hollywood Therapists Meet the Moment: “If You’re Not Dispirited Right Now, You’re Dissociative”
With the entertainment industry in rough shape, everybody in LA is seeking shrinks and life coaches—or becoming shrinks and life coaches.
By Joy Press
Welcome to Hollywood–that’s not smog, it’s depression. The entertainment industry currently registers somewhere between slowdown and apocalypse on the disaster scale. For many in the business who are either unemployed or terrified that they soon will be, therapists offer support and consolation. That means they serve as a good barometer for the town’s mental health. So what’s the view from the therapist’s chair?
“It feels like the end of days,” says Dennis Palumbo, a psychotherapist with patients predominately in the entertainment industry. “I’ve been doing this for 31 years now, and I’ve never seen this level of despair among creative people in the industry,” he says. “There’s a level of depression and anxiety pretty much unparalleled.”
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