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{{trope}}
{{quote|"''[[Therapy Is for the Weak|THERAPY IS FOR THE WEAK!
|'''Raye''', ''[[Sailor Moon Abridged]]''}}
In most fiction, there are ''no'' official systems in place to protect those who are psychologically vulnerable. Nobody is ever concerned that the kid who watched their parents die might be considering suicide, [[Freudian Excuse|homicide]], or [[Batman|fighting crime]] [[Dexter|without due process]], for example, and there is no psychological profiling in military organizations to recognize problems, or counseling for those who observe massacres (in the real world, both are heavy priorities for efficiency and to avoid lawsuits).
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A similar but related problem can exist where there are therapists, but the therapists are unskilled, not understanding while claiming to know everything, condemnatory, or otherwise problematic. This is why many people who may seem to severely need therapy in [[Real Life]] actively avoid it - they had a therapist who made their problems worse or who seemed laughably or [[Berserk Button|enragingly]] incapable of offering anything useful.
Can overlap with [[The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes]]. See also [[Therapy Is for the Weak]], where skilled, effective therapists are available and willing to help, but social pressure or stigma can make it unacceptable for those who need them to actually make use of them.
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== Anime
* [http://www.mangareader.net/all-rounder-meguru/47/8 Lampshaded] in [[All Rounder Meguru]]
* Almost anyone in the ''[[Digimon]]'' series. Given the [[Mons]]' connection to the children, teenage angst is a major factor in many battles.
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*** That's not callousness, that's deliberate malice. Gendo ''knows'' what his cruelty is doing to Shinji; its just that deliberately trying to break Shinji's will to resist is exactly what he's going after.
* Almost every work in the ''[[Gundam]]'' franchise.
** In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' Amuro is explicitly said to have the then current name for PTSD (Shellshock). While the lack of an actual therapist on White Base may be justified by the deaths of most real military on board early on, the best solution the two remaining officers (A pety officer and a Lieutenant Junior Grade) can think of is [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|to slap him]]. It doesn't work. and a therapist is never transferred to the roster either time White Base is resupplied.
*** Amuro is still suffering 8 years latter in ''[[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam]]'' before being again dragged into a war. Between the two series Amuro was in a [[Gilded Cage]] of a mansion, under watch by the Federation that fears his newtypeness, which has probably hindered his access to honest therapists.
** In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny]]'', when Shinn Asuka has just seen {{spoiler|a girl he obviously loved}} killed just before his eyes, maybe the captain of the ship will help him deal with it? No, best therapy for him is probably to stay in his quarters, simulating fight after fight. Yes, the guy who helps him doing this actually prefers him crazy. Until [[Older and Wiser|Athrun Zala]] joins the crew, at which point he spends most of his time punching Shinn and calling him an idiot for not obeying orders. Is it any wonder he hates almost every authority figure he comes across, the sole exception being Chairman Durandal, who acted like a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] towards Shinn?
** Justified for Kira in the first half of [[[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED]] SEED], the Archangel had little more than a Skeleton crew (even when on Earth). There were many discussions about the state of Kira's mental health but the 2 senior officers had no clue how to deal with it.
** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'', probably wouldn't exist without this trope, since having at least one severe psychological problem is apparently a requirement for Gundam pilots in that series. As it turns out, {{spoiler|it literally IS. Celestial Being's goals of stopping all armed conflicts turns out to be a way of enticing disillusioned child soldiers to join their ranks.}}
** Avoided in ''[[Turn A Gundam]]'' and averted on a meta level: Tomino had finally gotten therapy for [[Creator Breakdown|his long running depression issues]] which resulted in a much lighter series.
* When the crew for the ''Nadesico'' is being assembled at the beginning of ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'', the prospector notes that getting some... interesting... personalities was unavoidable in collecting the best possible crew. During one episode, after a particularly shocking development, most of the crew IS sent for counseling... to the ship's [[Mr. Exposition|Ms. Exposition]], who isn't trained for this sort of thing.
** Even worsened by the fact that said counselor probably could use a good therapy session herself.
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** The pilot comes up with an absolutely staggering solution for this genre. He's a ''mercenary''. If he doesn't want to work as much or the way they want him to, then they can just pay him less. This is a very alien concept to the Japanese mind.
* The three main characters in ''[[School Days]]'' would likely have been sent to a good therapist in the real world, especially the two girls with their overly (self-)destructive tendencies. Of course, the resulting drama would have had much less [[Downer Ending|impact]] that way.
* The cast of ''[[FLCL]]'' all are in need of a therapist to sort out the various problems they have, especially [[Love Martyr|Naota]], and [[
* The girls in ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]'' undergo brainwashing to make them function as cyborg-assassins, but the mental problems caused by this process are never professionally addressed. The "handlers" of the girls could also need some counseling about how to deal with them, as to prevent situations like the one in which one of the girls {{spoiler|commits suicide after killing her handler first, because she didn't feel loved enough by him}}.
** Of course, given the situations several of the girls were in before the [[Brainwashed|brainwashing]] and memory editing, it can be argued that in many cases they are in no worse shape psychologically than they would have been if left alone. {{spoiler|Henrietta is described as explicitly suicidal when Giuseppe came across her case in the hospital.}}
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* Of course Japan is much less inclined to see psychiatric help for anything short of certifiable institutional cases. But in the case of ''[[Red Garden]]'', the setting is New York and it's a trifle peculiar there that the grief counselors haven't been sicced on the whole school, especially the friends of the apparent suicide.
* ''[[Detective Conan]]'': Not that anyone seems worse for the wear in this series, but no one ever wonders if it is okay for six-year-old Conan to see a gruesome murder victim on a regular basis. Hell, it's probably not that good for seventeen-year-old Ran either.
** Believe it or not, this was ''[[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20110909014223/http://haven-reader.net/index.php?mode=view&series=Detective+Conan&chapter=Chapter+001&page=33&next=true in the very first chapter].
*** Which brings up another point, is no-one even disturbed by the fact that six-year-old Conan is completely calm when seeing these murders?
*** Ran and Sonoko seem pretty creeped out in chapter 43, which is among other things a dismemberment case, when Conan (who found the body) observes thoughtfully that the victim "was wearing her shoes, even though she was cut up." Note that this attitude would be damn creepy even from a forty-five-year-old professional, let alone teenage [[The Hero|Shinichi]]. From little 'Conan' it's material that [[Psychopathic Manchild|should have his caretakers keeping an eye out for tortured small animals and classmates driven to suicide.]]
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** Played with in Rena's background story. She did see a counselor; it just failed because [[Adults Are Useless]]. {{spoiler|And because the medication they gave her doesn't treat Hinamizawa Syndrome.}}
** [[Umineko no Naku Koro ni|The Ushiromiyas]] certainly have the cash to afford therapy, but it seems to be sorely lacking.
*** The only relatively normal ones among the adults are [[The Dutiful Son|Krauss]] (who is just an idiot), [[Millionaire Playboy|Rudolf]] {{spoiler|(as long as his wife doesn't convince him that killing his whole family would be a good idea)}}, and [[Nice Guy|Hideyoshi]]. Their wives (and Krauss and Rudolf's [[Abusive Parents|younger sister]]) all [[Sanity Slippage|have]] [[
* Most of what happened in ''[[Prétear]]'' could've been avoided if {{spoiler|Takako}} hadn't decided that the best reaction to being rejected was to {{spoiler|'''destroy the world'''}}. And then there's Miwata, with her lasting grief after her father's death. She ''does'' send in postcards to Sasame, a talk show host that's about the closest thing to a therapist in the entire show, but {{spoiler|considering he's still in love with the woman destroying the world because his comrade didn't love her, and he bears increasing guilt because of having to fight her}}, he's not much help either and could use a good therapist himself.
* Miyuki from the ''[[Miyuki-chan in Wonderland]]'' series continuously has [[Homoerotic Dream|homoerotic dreams]] that clearly bother her but she never sees a therapist to analyze what these dreams mean. Probably related to [[Rule of Funny]] and [[Failure Is the Only Option]].
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* ''[[Bleach]]'': One thinks that [[Hurting Hero|Ichigo]], [[Failure Knight|Rukia]], [[Stepford Smiler|Orihime]], [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid|Ishida]] and [[Broken Bird|Hinamori]] would have all needed therapists after their respective [[Break the Cutie]] incidents (the first four of which occurred before the manga's start), but no...
** Hitsugaya should now join them after {{spoiler|Aizen used his illusions to trick him into stabbing his childhood friend Hinamori.}}
** Surprisingly, {{spoiler|Aizen}} needed it too as Ichigo suggested he might have been [[Lonely
* ''[[Oniisama e...]]'': Your step-sister is antisocial, depressive, suicidal and has a pill addiction? She'll sort it out herself. Just put her into a dark apartment with mirrors on every wall. Oh yeah, if you're bullied to the max, you're crazy classmate tries to keep you hostage, and oh yeah, {{spoiler|you're almost raped, thrown of a balcony and drowned,}} just keep to yourself and NEVER talk with ANYONE about it. Things will get better, no need for therapists.
* ''[[Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko]]''. Here's a little something for prospective parents: If your daughter disappears for six months and returns thinking she's a space alien, and then breaks her arm trying to 'prove it' by driving a bike off a bridge... ''Call a therapist''. Ignoring her and letting her live in her room wrapped up in a futon probably makes for marginally better television, but in [[Real Life]] you're more likely to get protective services called on you than wacky family rom-com hijinx.
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* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', Magical girls have no therapists. Explanations and warnings won't work. Half of the cast lost their parents or don't have one to begin with, and even if there's one, the therapist wouldn't be effective anyway.
{{quote|'''Junko''': This is the first time I can't see through her (Madoka).}}
* In the TV series of [[
* Played with in [[Great Teacher Onizuka]]: Class 3-4's multitudinous issues are slowly dealt with by Onizuka, because he's the only teacher who's had the patience to put up with their shenanigans and the awesome to break through their [[Wangst]]; Principal Domon used to be a therapist, but she used her abilities to recruit students to be her minions as part of her grand revenge scheme instead of actually making them better.
* The manga and OVA versions of ''[[Area 88]]'' have several prominent characters who suffer from war trauma but never get profesional help. After the Vietnam War, Mickey never got professional help for his PTSD, making it difficult for him to adjust to civilian life.
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*** His works don't end in there. That psychologist even starts an anti-Batman TV campaign, manages to free the Joker and give him a sitcom... {{spoiler|killing him was the greater redeeming act from the Joker. Fact!}}. I think that since that day, therapists should be banned in Gotham!
** Remember: Joker ALWAYS pleads for insanity. The psychologists are the one and only cause which sends him through the revolving door of Arkham Asylum {{spoiler|in order to have a chance to write an essay about Joker}}. So, they are indeed his best accomplices.
** If there is anyone who needs a therapist badly, [[Freudian Excuse|Ja]][[Middle Child Syndrome|son]] [[Trigger Happy|Todd]] is your man. Nightwing offers to help him, but there probably isn't a therapist in Gotham qualified for his [[Back
* In [[Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' comic, there is no one to counsel the Freedom Fighters after fighting a years-long war with Robotnik and eventually ''killing'' him. Likewise (in the current story), Sonic defeats another Robotnik (another one from another [[The Multiverse|Multiverse]], who is left a broken man; Sonic watches as Robotnik's psychosis takes hold of him, to the point that he must be put in a straitjacket. Sonic seems deeply troubled by this. He tries talking to Sally about it, but she tells him the equivalent of "Suck it up and quit being such a drag; you're harshing our mellow." And of course, there is literally NO ONE IN ALL OF THE CITY THAT HE CAN TALK TO ABOUT IT THAT COULD POSSIBLY GIVE HIM PSYCHOLOGICAL HELP AT ALL.
* You know who could use a hug? [[The Punisher]]. PTSD ''is'' pretty well understood nowadays.
** He actually DID get therapy at one point, thanks to Doc Samson. He ended up leaving ''[[Up to Eleven|even worse off than before.]]''
* You'd think an organization like SHIELD would have the resources to talk Ultimate Hawkeye through ''the assassination of his entire family'' before he descends into [[Death Seeker]] territory. Then again, he may be more useful that way since he's one of their designated assassins himself.
** Given that Ultimate Nick Fury spent the entire Ultimates run proving that he was a more evil supervillain than most of what SHIELD was fighting, 'they deliberately left Clint that way because he was more useful to them as a murder-bot' theory has a lot going for it.
* Parodied in one issue of Marvel's ''[[What If]]?'', where [[Daredevil]] murdered the Kingpin and went insane with guilt. While he's running around, he bumps into [[Nineties Anti-Hero|the Punisher.]] When he sees just how broken Daredevil's become, Castle actually recommends a psychiatrist and offers to take him there personally.
* Therapists would be really, ''really'' useful in ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers]] Academy''. The central concept of the series is that the kids are in the Academy because they're all traumatized or otherwise disturbed, and the Avengers want to mold them into superheroes before they turn into supervillains. The only psychologist they see is Moonstone - whom they visit in prison because she's an evil psychopath. The students do seem to be encouraged to confide in their instructors, with the conceit being that since their instructors are all especially troubled Avengers and associated, they are better able to guide them. But the trope applies just as much to the adults. When Tigra realizes that her brutal beating at the hands of the Hood and the public humiliation it caused her are still affecting her, she doesn't see a professional about it, but instead goes on a talk show to get if off her chest.
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** Also, there are no therapists for the kind of brain trauma the fic itself will inflict on ''you''.
* Justified in one of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'''s fanfictions. Pilots are specially kept in isolation, because normal relations with other people makes it impossible to pilot Evas (whose minds are totally inhuman). Potential pilots who become friends are sent away, because a) bad things will happen since they have a normal relationship with each oher b) there is a threat they may befriend Rei, Asuka and Shinji, causing the whole project to collapse.
* Lampshaded in the author's notes of ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4004316/10/Windows_of_the_Soul Windows of the Soul]'', a ''[[
{{quote|"Sometimes I wonder whether it would be easier if I just had Shizuru see a psychologist. The problem being, how does she say "I have a huge guilt complex over killing scores of people with my summoned demon named after the legendary Kiyohime" without being put in an asylum? Perhaps the First District has specilised psychologists. Oh, wait. She blew them up. That's what she's guilty about."}}
* ''[[Oh God Not Again]]'' makes fun of this trope (as it does with the whole [[Harry Potter]] universe) mentioning that Cho only got better after years of therapy, and she needed to edit her story, because all therapists are Muggles.
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** Smaller scale of course, but Cho Chang gets a lot of flack for using Harry to feel closer to Cedric, when anyone can see what the girl seriously needs is some grief counseling. She lost her boyfriend in a way that no one wants to talk about, and since Hogwarts doesn't believe in helpful things like counselors, Harry's the only game in town.
** Never mind Harry himself—ten years of neglect and abuse (which Dumbledore explicitly knows about but never bothers to stop), then an adolescence peppered with torture, being nearly murdered, witnessing several murders, etc. Plus a martyr complex. (They claim that most muggle science doesn't work on Hogwarts campus. Apparently, that applies to psychology as well.)
** Although Harry himself ''direly'' needed to see a therapist, and didn't. Leaving aside the entire argument over how much the school authorities may or may not have known about his highly abusive home environment (even though Dumbledore openly admits in book 6 that he knew all about it), just the part where Harry's first year at school ended with him having to ''kill a teacher who had been possessed by the Dark Lord in self-defense'', after narrowingly surviving being murdered at the hands of said teacher ''twice''... so, you've got an 11-year-old kid who just did his first ''manslaughter'' and you don't even take him to see a social worker? What the fuck, Hogwarts?
** And Ginny, of course. Apparently, when you are possessed by the evil overlord, ''not punishing you'' for what he made you do is already being the best guy in this world (Dumbledore).
** Also Luna Lovegood. We don't know the details, but when she was nine she saw her mother die and she apparently got no help. Plus, she was continually harassed and bullied for at least her first four years at Hogwarts and was so isolated socially that when Harry and company finally befriended her she painted portraits of them all on her ceiling linked by the word "friends".
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* In ''[[Stargate Universe]]'', TJ in addition to being a medic, took some psychology classes which automatically makes her the most qualified therapist among the ad hoc crew. She tries her best, with mixed results. The crew also tries to deal with the stress by venting their concerns to a Kino. Or ''[[Is That What They're Calling It Now?|reading]]''.
* It's funny how ''[[The Shield]]'' might have turned differently if Shane Vendrell and Vic Mackey could have had a heart-to-heart talk about Shane's feelings of guilt over the murder of Terry Crowley, seeing as his series-long nervous breakdown/descent into murder-murder-suicide was kickstarted by way of Vic ordering him to repress all feelings of guilt over the murder and demanding he pretend it never happened.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** But hardly impossible for this show. It's hardly implausible that the ''therapists'' suffered trauma-inducing experiences at some point, and they couldn't handle it.
** Starbuck is obviously voicing [[Unreliable Narrator|her own personal opinion]] on therapists, rather than reflecting reality in the Fleet (given how screwed up Starbuck is, her previous encounters with therapists were undoubtedly unsuccessful). The main characters seem to prefer friends or religious counsellors anyway.
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*** ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'' (also affectionately known as Abuse Victim: The Therapy) is all about characters who are very much in need of help. Fortunately, not only is it quite possible to work with a therapist as long as you ensorcell the mortal into never breaking [[The Masquerade]], changelings can also use dream manipulation as a form of psychotherapy. Or anti-therapy, if they are so inclined.
** ''[[New World of Darkness]]'' fan games:
*** ''[[Genius: The Transgression]]'' only makes the situation worse. [[Mad Scientist|Geniuses]] are all somewhat insane by definition, though [[The Mad Hatter|many are aware of it]]. Talking to a therapist tends to [[Brown Note|turn the therapist]] [[Go Mad
*** ''[[Leviathan: The Tempest]]'' has players as [[Eldritch Abomination]]s with very easy [[Mind Rape]] abilities so naturally there's a lot of insanity to go around. Luckily for humanity Therapy is effective. Unfortunately for the Leviathans their access to Therapy is far more limited and they often have just as much need of one, even if they are immune to each others psychic effects.
* The ''[[Don't Rest Your Head]]'' supplement (mostly for players) "Don't Lose Your Mind" (all about madness and madness powers) features suggestions on how to get rid of permanent madness. Therapy makes the list, which is fair enough, except that the therapists it advises you to see are [[Nightmare Fuel|Nightmares]] who will gladly, and literally, {{spoiler|fuck}} your brain out to get a better look. Needless to say there's a fair chance you'll come out madder than when you entered.
* There are many crazed people in ''[[Warhammer
** Sort of mentioned, however, in one of the [[Ciaphas Cain]] books: after an [[Escort Mission]] goes wrong and the squad has to shoot PDF who are only doing their job, a few of them talk to the regimental chaplain, which seems to help.
* In Magic: The Gathering, at least two of the protagonists from the novels need quite a bit of therapy. Jodah, the Archmage who accidentally made himself functionally immortal when a youth, and Gerrard Capashen, the result of genetics tampering and one who kept managing to survive while everyone around him kept dying. Massive Survivor's Guilt? Nah, not here!
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* [[Final Fantasy VI]] counts too. ''Every'' member of the cast suffers from some kind of unresolved past and/or current trauma (usually, but not always, thanks to the [[Evil Empire|Gestahlian Empire]]). Possibly even the [[Optional Party Member|moogle, mime, and yeti]]. It's just not explicit because they don't talk much. Justified because the setting is one that would predate therapy.
* In ''[[Condemned]] 2'', where Ethan Thomas is an alcoholic, homeless wreck after his traumatic experiences bashing in hundreds of Rage-crazed hobo skulls in ''Condemned''.
* ''[[
** The fact that he was {{spoiler|granted a boon by the Chaos God, Khorne (the reason why he's a [[One-Man Army]])}} doesn't help.
** It also explained that their own caste is kept in check by the Greater Good, and that Kais was fighting an internal battle to reconcile what he became with the Greater Good. His superior ''explains'' it to two of his peers that they are never far from being berserkers.
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** Godot {{spoiler|the whole story of how he went from Diego Armando to Godot, especially where Mia died, and he wasn't there to save her.}}
** Truth be told, one could go on forever about characters in Ace Attorney who need some sort of mental help. It's mind-blowing how many of them have so much hidden baggage.
* ''[[
* Played straight with both {{spoiler|Aribeth}} and {{spoiler|Bastila}} in ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' and in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]''. Then again, the first was the perfect paladin and the second was the perfect Jedi, at least on the outside, so nobody really had any cause to worry.
** Jolee and Juhani in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' both have reasons in their backstories as to why they ought to have had some counseling, but neither mentions it. Also, Mission after the escape from Taris probably ought to talk to someone.
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* The closest thing poor [[Ciem Webcomic Series|Candi Flippo]] is afforded is a lawyer and an eccentric minister. And a poor excuse for a mentor who [[Squishy Wizard|dies easily]] and waits until she's near-dead before he does anything to help. Jackrabbit's [[I'm a Man, I Can't Help It|selfish motives]], exploiting Candi's [[You Killed My Father|already]]-[[Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny|disturbed]] [[Determined Widow|emotional state]], don't help matters any. Then again, therapists in her world are [[Second Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics|as prone]] as [[Anyone Can Die|anyone else]] [[Off with His Head|to]] [[Made of Plasticine|short]] [[Made of Explodium|life]] [[Sorting Algorithm of Mortality|expectancy]].
** With all the beheadings, fiery deaths, and mutilation, depicted and subtext; this story is just a few [[Sexy Discretion Shot|graphic sex]] and [[Gosh Dang It to Heck|foul language]] depictions shy of earning the webcomic equivalent of an R rating. According to Mod [[The Sims]], that is.
* In ''[[Walkyverse|It's Walky!]]'', most of main cast had experienced mental and physical [[Cold-Blooded Torture|torture]], [[Super Soldier|genetic alteration]], [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|mindwipes]], and brainwashing by alien abductors, then were forcibly separated from their families (if any were still alive) and thrust into the paramilitary government organization "SEMME", engaging in a secret war against said aliens with a very little hope of survival. Not surprisingly, nearly every one of them has severe psychological issues which make up the basis of many storylines... yet Big Boss, who had been a psychiatric patient herself after her own battles against the Martians and the Purple Aliens, never thinks to hire even a single counselor to help the five hundred superhumanly empowered, dangerously unstable twenty-somethings under her command (which included her own children). A recent [[Flash Back]] story revealed that they ''did'', in fact, get [https://web.archive.org/web/20131018061909/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20070727.html psychological profiling]—but the government decided to keep SEMME running anyway, since it'd be cheaper than paying the therapy bills.
* ''[[Dominic Deegan]]''. You'd think that after the first dozen times or so that Luna broke down and cried over something minor, Dominic would've gone looking for a counselor. After what she'd been through all her life, she really could've used one.
** This is probably because Dominic has taken the responsibility upon himself. While Luna has improved, he's arguably done a pretty bad job of it. This is justified by the fact that he could really use some therapy as well. One has to wonder if he ever received therapy after seeing an evil necromancer attack his family and ''infect his little brother with a plague of undeath when he was a kid''.
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* ''[[Misfile]]'': [[Ret-Gone|From his point of view]], Ash's father just got back from a convention to find his [[Gender Bender|daughter]] has taken to [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=91 declaring she is a boy], exhibited sudden and severe personality changes, and has moved her (obviously fake) Canadian boyfriend in [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=408 under the flimsiest of pretenses]. Despite being a highly respected doctor he makes no attempt to get her any professional help. Even worse is the character of Kamikaze Kate who, as a teenager, saw her elder sister murdered in a brutal vehicular homicide yet apparently received zero psychological help.
** Somewhat justified in that he takes a very "hands off" approach with his daughter, largely due to how his wife left him. He knows Ash well enough (girl Ash's [[Retcon]] personality isn't ''that'' different from boy Ash) to know that (s)he would not respond well to the suggestion of psychiatric help and is likely hesitant to risk driving a wedge between them.
* In ''[[Something
** That example is possibly justified, given [https://web.archive.org/web/20130509195853/http://somethingpositive.net/sp02012003.shtml his in comic discussion] of the subject. Sadly this attitude is also [[Truth in Television|Truth in WebComics]] too.
* In ''[[Megatokyo]]'', Erika was allowed to throw away a promising career as a voice actress/pop idol after her boyfriend broke up with her. You'd think the studio would hire a therapist to talk her out of it right? Wrong!
** Later, Kimiko nearly did the same thing after getting into a fight with Piro. They made up eventually, but a relationship counselor would have probably made the process a lot easier.
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* Zig-zagged in [[A Loonatics Tale]]. There ''are'', in fact, therapists, they're even major characters in the comic, but they have a whole host of psychological issues all their own which may or may not prevent them from actually doing their patients any good (at least one is too apathetic to do his job, so he just medicates them into oblivion). On top of that, most of them reckon that, since they're therapists, they're immune to psychological disorders, and wouldn't need help even if they weren't.
* Averting this is the basic premise of [[Level 30 Psychiatry]] but played weirdly for Dr. Gardevoir herself. {{spoiler|She tries giving herself therapy and it backfires.}}
* Completely averted in ''[[A Miracle of Science]]''. One of the two lead detectives is a medical doctor and psychiatrist, and was hand-picked for this particular assignment not only for forensic psychology purposes but also because they thought the other lead detective (a recovering case of Science-Related Memetic Disorder) might ''need'' a therapist, or at the very least a psychological observer in place to let the chain of command know if anything was wrong.
** The other lead is himself
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** Two episodes after Schooled, and Superboy has a throwaway line, telling Aqualad about the technique he just used to beat him. "Black Canary taught me that." Just the way he says it shows that even the limited ammount of attention she can give him during traing helps a lot. Aww...
*** And completely averted a few episodes later which featured all the main cast in therapy.
* The mane cast of ''[[My Little Pony:
** Pinkie Pie descends into severe depression and psychosis when she thinks people don't like her. Even ''[[Shrinking Violet|Fluttershy]]'' becomes a terrifying [[Stalker with a Crush]] when animals reject her love.
*** The breakdowns usually happen when their purpose in life (as symbolized by the pictures on their butts) is called into question somehow (Fluttershy and the animals, Pinkie Pie and her parties, etc.). Thus, the fandom has dubbed it "Cutie Mark Failure Insanity Syndrome" or CMFIS. Rolls off the tongue, dunnit?
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