Complicity grief, liquidity anxiety: Silicon Valley therapists are confronting a lot of new neuroses

Mariaelena Caputi for BI Silicon Valley is having an existential freakout. Tech workers have long complained to their therapists about soul-crushing hours, cutthroat competition, and the absence of that woolly concept known as work-life balance. Lately, with the collision of mass layoffs, artificial intelligence, and gazillion-dollar IPOs, the woes cut deeper. "Three years ago, people would walk in saying, 'I'm exhausted, burned out beyond belief,'" says Annie Wright, a Bay Area psychotherap...

Complicity grief, liquidity anxiety: Silicon Valley therapists are confronting a lot of new neuroses