I am a big fan of increased societal support for mental healthcare. Less of a fan of how blind enthusiasm leads to fictional depictions of therapy sessions by people who have 1) never experienced one, and/or 2) are apparently unaware that mental healthcare professionals are also flawed human beings, whose discipline has a deeply flawed history, who are capable of being incompetent or outright bigoted, and who can do great harm to the patients in their care. Like anyone in medicine.
Mm, yeah, see, I really don't think there's a good version of forcing someone to immediately perform deep vulnerability with a stranger who confidently dictates what their patient is feeling and the "necessary" life changes so that the patient can be "fixed". I think that therapy is a slow process that needs to be both voluntary and cooperative, actually.
Where's that post that's like "intentional horror is never as scary as something originally intended to be wholesome"? Really not enjoying getting jumpscared by these bad therapy sessions in fiction.
