I even made the mistake of clicking from my health insurance’s website to the Talkspace, which set even more cookies in my web browser which boosted my count of mental health advertisements I get when I go to any website or Facebook. I know they’re just trying to be helpful — I mean boosting their corporate profits by getting more clients, preferably those interested in going to years and decades worth of billable sessions, but I just want to research such things further.

I don’t know why I find mental health advertising to be particularly obnoxious, but I do. Maybe because it’s so creepy to be labeled as mentally ill by an anonymous algorithm that knows nothing about you besides you mentioned certain keywords in a blog post, you visited a certain website or you searched a certain term. And I get the corporate profit motive or how a government agency wants to sell you it’s services or messages. But I still thing it’s wrong to follow people around the internet, reminding them all the time that they’re sick puppies.