Can we talk about therapy?

Wanting to go to therapy is a good enough reason to go, I promise.

I was lucky. I did not grow up in a household where therapy was taboo. Mental health issues were never labeled as fake or weak. My parents just wanted me to be happy. If something was wrong that required professional help, I knew they’d support it, no questions asked.

Later in life, I learned that Asian culture tends to only accept physical scars. Thus, the fact that my parents accepted therapy and believed in internal trauma, meant I was in a small minority.

Therapy was acceptable, but not normalized. No one I knew went to therapy. Whether it was because they didn’t need it, didn’t feel comfortable going, or just didn’t tell me, I don’t know.

I grew up as one of the first generations to get an education including mental health awareness. I empathized with individuals with mental health problems like anxiety, stress, and depression. However, I didn’t have a magnitude of problems, so I never considered therapy.

Let me be clear: I never thought there was something wrong with someone just because they were getting therapy. However, in my head, if someone was going to therapy, they always had a “why” that accompanied it.

I thought you needed to have a reason to go or at the very least a problem to discuss. After all, if you don’t know the issue, what’s the point?

Therapy — like everything else — has many buckets. Relationship therapy. Sex therapy. Couples therapy.Therapy for trauma, depression, anxiety, stress.

One great recent development of mental health acceptance is that we are finally treating it as an umbrella instead of a singular disease. Just as we would never send a gynecologist to perform heart surgery, finally, there is a therapy specialist for everything and anything.

However, there isn’t therapy for Nothing.

Booking a therapy session is always hard. But it is even harder when you do not know what you’re booking it for. Or when you don’t know what you’re feeling. After all, how can anyone solve your problems if you don’t know what they are?

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