Honestly, one of the things I dislike about it as someone who's been through a fair amount of therapy is the implications that seeking help even is always the right choice, and the help is always immediately effective and never harmful. The three to ten sentences of wrap up never include anybody switching therapists, or being sectioned for stupid reasons, and no one ever has unbearable side effects (or any at all) from medications, or...
It's kind of a sore spot because I think the way therapy's treated in fiction is one of the reasons for how much the other people in your life resist it when you decide something is not helping.
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Date: 2014-06-22 06:51 pm (UTC)It's kind of a sore spot because I think the way therapy's treated in fiction is one of the reasons for how much the other people in your life resist it when you decide something is not helping.