something that pisses me off is how therapy and psychiatry are portrayed on television. i’ve noticed that in a lot of shows, therapy is incredibly stigmatized. when a character goes into treatment, the places are portrayed as being a stereotypical “insane asylum”, with long white gowns and metal bars over everything. and if a character (usually a young woman) says she needs help and wants to see a therapist, she’s told “but why, there’s nothing wrong with you!”, or if they’re told to see a therapist they don’t want to go because they think they “aren’t crazy” and that they’ll be ostracized for going to therapy. i don’t get how mental illness is still portrayed so negatively on shows targeted towards impressionable youths, because it only reinforces the terrible stereotypes associated with it. it shouldn’t be weird or make someone an outcast if they are in therapy, and television really needs to address this.