Lindsay Clancy, SSRIs, and the Toxic Online Culture Destroying Women | Weds LIVE Ep. 52

Featuring Jessica Reed Kraus (@houseinhabit), Jonathan Alpert, and Ericka Andersen. A courtroom in Plymouth, Massachusetts, is hearing the Lindsay Clancy murder case. But Jeremy Boreing argues the more revealing story is not inside the courtroom at all — it is the parallel universe that has assembled around it online, where thousands of women who have never read a legal filing have watched a few hours of true-crime video and concluded they have solved a case that seventy witnesses could not settle. This week's Wednesday live panel takes that phenomenon as the entry point into a much larger question: what is actually happening to women in America, and is there a way back? Jeremy makes the case that the online response to this trial is not an isolated curiosity but a symptom — of a country that has medicated women at extraordinary rates, watched women's drinking climb for two decades, built a billion-dollar market in explicit fiction, and handed millions of women an ecosystem that rewards suspicion, grievance, and resentment while penalizing trust, connection, and accountability. As Alex Clark put it on X, idle people are easy to radicalize, and women who are not plugged into community are sitting prey. Jeremy argues she is right — and that this eventually reaches the ballot box. Three guests take that question from three genuinely different vantage points. Jonathan Alpert is a psychotherapist with two decades of clinical practice in New York and Washington, D.C., and the author of Therapy Nation: How America Got Hooked on Therapy and Why It's Left Us More Anxious and Divided. He is the clinical insider making an argument against his own field: that despite unprecedented access to therapy, anxiety and depression are at record highs, and that words like trauma, boundaries, toxic, and self-care escaped the consulting room and were weaponized in the culture. He walks Jeremy through the mechanism — how a clinical tool becomes a cultural weapon, why women became the primary consumers of therapeutic language, and what that has produced. Jessica Reed Kraus — known to more than a million followers as @houseinhabit — is an independent journalist who has covered high-profile trials from the inside, from the Britney Spears conservatorship to Ghislaine Maxwell to Harvey Weinstein. She reports on the online world under discussion as both observer and professional participant, and as a mother of four. She describes what she actually sees when she looks at trial TikTok, true-crime fan communities, and the conspiracy ecosystems Jeremy is criticizing — and what it looks like to work online without being consumed by it. Ericka Andersen is a conservative writer, WORLD Magazine columnist, and the author of Reason to Return: Why Women Need the Church and the Church Needs Women and Freely Sober: Rethinking Alcohol Through the Lens of Faith. She argues that roughly 16 million women have left the church over the last decade and did not find nothing in its place — they found something else. She makes the faith-and-community case for what heals, and speaks from her own history of poverty, trauma, and recovery. Alpert diagnoses in clinical language and locates the failure in institutions. Andersen locates the cure in faith, church, and embodied community. Kraus reports from inside the ecosystem without either vocabulary. Jeremy pushes all three toward the uncomfortable version of the argument, including the consistency test: if men were forming parasocial fan clubs around accused murderers and building theories out of a few hours of video, we would call it radicalization without hesitating. The conversation closes on one concrete thing a woman watching could do in her actual life — not online. 00:00:00 – Jeremy's Razors & the Lindsay Clancy Case 00:07:22 – Meet the Guests: Women in Crisis Online 00:16:22 – Gnosticism, Lost Community & Coddled Kids 00:33:18 – Postpartum Psychosis & Victimhood Culture 00:44:32 – AI, Algorithms & Destination Vices 01:03:16 – Diagnosis Culture: Sin & Diluted Language 01:16:47 – Satan as Accuser: Candace, Tucker & Evil 01:20:22 – Rebuilding Trust & Family Estrangement 01:37:53 – COVID's Legacy & Finding Real Hope Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices