There's an information imbalance. A lot of people have access to lots of stuff that can tell them how to live their life better. They have access to information

There's an information imbalance. A lot of people have access to lots of stuff that can tell them how to live their life better. They have access to information about psychology, about how their brain works. They have access to information that in endless varieties of ways, can 'hack' their brain, change them. 1. This doesn't make people happy. Constantly trying to fix yourself is like running past the goal post as soon as you get there. 2. Life just sucks sometimes, and therapy doesn't always make it better. You can't force a therapist to actually have compassion and empathy for someone if they don't. This may be complicated. Therapists and stuff may have their own issues, like the fact that they have to deal with a world where everyone has access to almost the same information they do. How can they help? How can they deal with a dynamic where a mentally ill person may even understand this, and have compassion for it? That has to be confusing. The world is crazy and there are no rules. We want to believe there are rules when there is chaos, but there aren't. Sometimes you just have to trust people. That can be really scary if you don't know them, and it can also be really scary if you've been educated into a career where you are constantly on the lookout for people that could be ... dangerous. Also culture. There's a fuck ton of stigma going around for mentally ill people lately. Just because we were more aware of it a couple of years ago doesn't mean it improved collectively. We've taken a massive step backwards culturally when we blame every horrible thing that happens in the world on mentally ill people. That's all in the cultural background noise, it changes things, affects the ways people see things, affects their fears. We are not omnipotent beings that know everything. Some information that people with fucked up intentions intend on spreading for whatever intent - you gotta fight it. If you don't, it's going to hurt you in the long run. That's something I've learned through lots of confusion.