Mental health care is a need, not a luxury. There is a quiet sentence I hear far too often in my therapy room: “I didn’t think it was serious enough to ask for help.” Somehow, we have been conditioned to believe that emotional pain must reach a breaking point before it qualifies for support. That, unless you are unable to function, unless there is a visible crisis, unless everything has fallen apart, you should handle it alone. As a psychologist, I want to say this clearly: m