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** Even after [[spoiler:[[PaedoHunt Kamoshida's horrifying crimes]]]] come to light, there's no sign of any sort of mental health services at the school for its students, many of whom are doubtless deeply traumatized, [[spoiler:one to the point of AttemptedSuicide]].

* ''ComicStrip/ScaryGary'': Downplayed. The main cast is in need of some serious therapy, and there ''are'' therapists around who could help them… with the key word being "could", as them being various monsters (and a decapitated living head in a jar) tends to scare people away.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' tried to avoid this somewhat by instituting the position of "Ship's Counselor", which was the role of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' main cast member Deanna Troi, but still ran into it on occasion. ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' and ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' had excuses, though: Ezri Dax was still in training when she was assigned as counselor, while Captain Janeway said in an early episode that ''Voyager'' hadn't been expected to need one (being that the mission they were ''supposed'' to have took place well within shouting distance of a major starbase, Deep Space 9). Chakotay (with his [[VisionQuest Vision Quests]]), Neelix (as Morale Officer), and Tuvok (using Vulcan meditation techniques) usually take up the role. It's also something of a RunningGag that actually seeing a counselor ''always'' makes the situation worse. ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'' adds a new complication with Pike and La'an--they ''can't'' seek therapy for issues related to their bouts with TimeTravel because Temporal Affairs told them it would mess up the timeline and don't have anyone on ''their'' staff whose job it is to help people traumatized by anything they've seen on their journeys through the timeline.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Yara Greyjoy truly loves her brother Theon, but when when they're in Volantis in Season 6 and he still has PTSD from his years of mental and physical torture by Ramsay Bolton, she tells him that if he doesn't want to live he should just kill himself, or he should keep going — though she does apologize for being a little insensitive. This might seem kind of blunt to us, but in the behind-the-scenes videos, the showrunners directly explained that "Yara isn't a trained psychotherapist", most people in Westeros don't really know about PTSD and the Ironborn, in particular, are more blunt than others, so they felt that it would be untrue to her background if she wasn't kind of blunt in this scene.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Yara truly loves her brother Theon, but when when they're in Volantis in Season 6 and he still has PTSD from his years of mental and physical torture by Ramsay Bolton, she tells him that if he doesn't want to live he should just kill himself, or he should keep going — though she does apologize for being a little insensitive. This might seem kind of blunt to us, but in the behind-the-scenes videos, the showrunners directly explained that "Yara isn't a trained psychotherapist", most people in Westeros don't really know about PTSD and the Ironborn, in particular, are more blunt than others, so they felt that it would be untrue to her background if she wasn't kind of blunt in this scene.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Yara truly loves her brother Theon, but when he still has PTSD when they're in Volantis in Season 6, she tells him that if he doesn't want to live he should just kill himself, or he should keep going — though she does apologize for being a little insensitive. This might seem kind of blunt to us, but in the behind-the-scenes videos, the showrunners directly explained that "Yara isn't a trained psychotherapist", most people in Westeros don't really know about PTSD and the Ironborn, in particular, are more blunt than others, so they felt that it would be untrue to her background if she wasn't kind of blunt in this scene.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Yara truly loves Theon, but when he still has PTSD when they're in Volantis in Season 6, she tells him that if he doesn't want to live he should just kill himself, or he should keep going — though she does apologize for being a little insensitive. This might seem kind of blunt to us, but in the behind-the-scenes videos, the showrunners directly explained that "Yara isn't a trained psychotherapist", most people in Westeros don't really know about PTSD and the Ironborn, in particular, are more blunt than others, so they felt that it would be untrue to her background if she wasn't kind of blunt in this scene.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Several of the Primarchs and a great many of their sons desperately needed a more structured kind of counselling than the tried and tested "pick a convenient baseline human or nearby Astartes and monologue to them about your emotions" method, particularly in cases like Perturabo, whose martyr complex and emotionally uptight nature led to an increasingly obsessive resentment of everyone else. Nor did it help that the people helping Lorgar through ''his'' personal crisis were [[SinisterMinister already secret cultists of the dark powers]] who took advantage of his vulnerability to lead him to those gods instead of the one who had rejected him.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': There is no indication that Hogwarts, unlike the vast majority of real-life educational institutes these days, has any paid therapists on its staff. Hogwarts students are also exposed to a great deal more traumatic crap on a yearly basis than the vast majority of real-life students are. The school's go-to strategy when a character (at least Harry) suffers some kind of trauma or is upset or afraid about something seems to be the OncePerEpisode heart-to-heart with Dumbledore at the end of each book. Dumbledore, it should be noted, while generally a cool guy, is not a licensed therapist, and the wisdom he dispenses, while generally sound, is not based in any tradition of psychotherapy. Just look at Harry, who learns that an evil wizard murdered his parents and is still out to get him, is constantly antagonized and demeaned by one of his professors, fights a troll, is attacked by a mysterious hooded figure in the woods at night, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking suffers a serious sports injury]], witnesses one of his best friends nearly die, and is almost killed by the evil wizard who is possessing a professor Harry liked and respected, and is forced to kill the wizard's mortal host in self-defense. And oh yeah, [[TraumaCongaLine that's only his first year]]. [[CerebusSyndrome Things get much, much worse.]] He never is shown receiving help in any professional capacity for any of these events, nor for any of the general stresses of academic life, adolescence, and the additional stressors that come with everyone around him thinking that he is TheChosenOne.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' is set in a world with both advanced medical technology and soulless beast known as Grimm that are drawn to negative emotions and have regularly [[TheUsualAdversaries destroyed kingdoms]] in the past. Despite this, therapy doesn't seem to exist. When Yang hallucinates Mercury attacking her and shoots him in the leg, General Ironwood and Velvet both react to this by saying that it's "normal" for Huntsmen and Huntresses to hallucinate sometimes and the only consequence is that she's banned from the tournament. When Yang falls into a deep depression after [[spoiler:losing her arm]], Taiyang is unable to help her. While nearly every character has mental problems and trauma, none of them suggest therapy or anything similar. [[spoiler:The closest thing the world to therapy is the Blacksmith, an entity from another dimesnion that was created by an omnisicent divine tree for the purpose. When Ruby tries to kill herself in that dimension, the Tree takes her and brings her to the Blacksmith who gives her magical EpiphanyTherapy.]] There might be some justification to this, as the world is a battleground for a SecretWar against [[HumanoidAbomination Salem]] whose primary tactic is to [[ManipulativeBastard use her opponents' emotional flaws against them]] and sow fear and hatred among the populace. It's possible that she sabotaged or else destroyed any developments in psychiatry as a threat to her plans.

* Subverted in ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent''. Harumi Chono, a university researcher and part-time tutor, is shown attending therapy for mental health issues. Her therapist even encourages Harumi to tell her fiancé about their sessions. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, it's downplayed in that Harumi main issue is a violent {{Split Personality}} that manifests as a prostitute named Maria. In real life, someone with a condition as severe as Harumi's would be institutionalized.]]

** Shoto Todoroki's mother scarred him with boiling water in a MomentOfWeakness over her abusive husband. While ''she'' got sent to a mental institution that is doing great things for her (an aversion), Shoto and his siblings were left alone. It's hard to tell who needed therapy more: His siblings for being the unsuccessful results of a SuperBreedingProgram that were cast aside by the patriarch or Shoto himself for being a successful result and underwent TrainingFromHell since he was a child. Regardless, none of them got anything. Even worse, one of his siblings [[spoiler: became a major villain]].

* ''Fanfic/ACertainDrollHivemind'': A surprising aversion. Considering it's Academy City, you'd be forgiven for assuming that no Sister would ever get a psychiatrist. But at least one did get one assigned, and it's implied a few more are meeting with doctors in a similar manner. The plot starts with Misaka-11111's therapist telling her to write a private diary.

* Averted in ''Fanfic/{{The Cosmos|MiraculousLadybug}}''. Several of the titular {{Bully Hunter}}s have attended therapy themselves to address various issues, and often advise others to seek therapy themselves.

* In a rare aversion for a UK soap opera, ''Series/{{Brookside}}'' featured the Simpsons going for family therapy when they discover their fully blood-related children Nat and Georgia are [[SiblingIncest in a consensual incestuous relationship]]. The session ends in chaos when dad Ollie thinks the therapist is accusing him of having abused his children, and then it comes out that Georgia had an abortion and didn't tell Nat.

* A surprising aversion in ''Series/{{Continuum}}''. Mostly, there's an implied AllTherapistsAreMuggles in play; the protagonist is from the future, so if she tried to talk about her problems, she'd get locked in an asylum. That's exactly what happened to another time traveler (though in fairness, he really had gone crazy as [[TemporalSickness a side effect of the time travel]], as evidenced by the fact that he didn't see anything wrong with chatting about being from the future). The aversion comes into play when Kiera strikes an officer in anger, and she finds out that her cybernetic AugmentedReality implant has a therapist AI ''built-in''. He's briefly an inversion of AllTherapistsAreMuggles; he doesn't believe that they're really in the past and assumes she's had a psychotic break, but when he can't contact headquarters, he tables that issue and moves on to her real problems.
* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'':
** Frasier himself, and his girlfriend then wife Lilith Sternin are a walking aversion of this, though Frasier does grumble about the others trying to scull psychological advice from him, and whatever help Lilith usually gives is in the form of BrutalHonesty. Of course, later on in the series it's shown [[TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes Frasier has his own issues he's not dealing with]] regarding his dead mom. Another running gag is Frasier dropping with varying levels of subtlety hints to Cliff Clavin that he see a shrink, either for his morass of mommy issues or his conspiracy theories.
--->'''Frasier:''' You know, Cliff, electroshock therapy only ''sounds'' scary...
** Cliff does try getting therapy for his obnoxious tendencies, but the doctor quickly starts abusing him because of his insufferability.

* In ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', quite a few characters are pretty obviously in need of somebody to help them deal with their post-traumatic stress. For example, Miles Edgeworth witnessed the murder of his own father at the age of nine after being trapped in an elevator in an earthquake and is shown to have panic attacks in earthquakes even as an adult. He also avoids elevators whenever possible, a major inconvenience considering he works on the tenth floor of a building. He even believed himself to be the murderer having nightmares about it nearly every night until proven innocent.
** Ema Skye also qualifies. She [[spoiler: witnessed a murder]] at fourteen, and is still shaken from it two years later. Her sister, who takes care of her, is pretty well-off, so it's not inconceivable that she could get a therapist.
** The closest aversion in the series is in ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations 2'', when [[spoiler:Edgeworth engages Sebastian in Logic Chess after rescuing him from his father’s garage following a kidnapping gone wrong]].

* ''Webcomic/Level30Psychiatry'' is naturally an aversion. The whole dang thing is about video game characters getting therapy for all the weird stuff they get into.

* ''LetsPlay/PiratesSMP'': Alluded to on Day 36, following the server-wide event "In Too Deep". After investigating the Whirlpool and [[spoiler:watching Aimsey get KilledOffForReal]] with most of the server, Acho asks the Travelling Merchant if there's anywhere around to get therapy or [[INeedAFreakingDrink get drunk]]. The Merchant directs star to the tavern in town, with no further mention of getting anyone any psychological help.

May be an EnforcedTrope out of a belief that [[DysfunctionJunction fiction's more interesting that way]], because the writers think poorly of psychiatry — or maybe because the characters belong to a culture which places the responsibility for an individual's mental state on [[ParentalAbandonment family]] and [[LonersAreFreaks friends]].

** On the one hand, it's specifically mentioned that counseling is standard for any children of roughly middle-school age. On the other hand, their quality varies, and it seems that after a certain point visiting them is optional.

* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomverse'': The trope is played with, depending on the story and the protagonist. For Chloe Cerise and Goh, for example, their problems are exacerbated by the parents not even noticing (or actively ''caring'') to see what is wrong with them or too busy with work to consider therapy. Professor Cerise was actually advised to take his daughter to a therapist...and refused, deciding it's better if she was stuck in the Cerise Institute where her problems festered and ultimately lead her onto the train and the destruction left in her wake. Whoops.

** When Shinji is showing signs of mental unbalance, Misato considers one of the Nerv's therapists... except that she does not know if they have therapists, and Ritsuko does not see a need to hire shrinks. Later, Rei explains Nerv's previous therapist was arrested for malpractice.

** By only using half his Quirk, Shoto is publicly self-mutilating himself to the point of risking his own health. Izuku tries to intervene and finally gets him snap in out of it during the Sports Festival final. Again no therapist.

* ''Film/Joker2019'': [[DoubleSubversion Double-subverted]]. Arthur is seeking out mental help, but he only has access to a social worker that can periodically sign him off on medication, and with [[BeleagueredBureaucrat how visibly overworked she is]], she doesn't end up being very helpful. At the start of the third act, she informs Arthur that due to budget cuts, she's being fired and he'll be unable to get ''any'' treatment -- psychological or medical. On their last meeting, [[DiscussedTrope she openly confides to Arthur how upset she is that she can't be of help]], and how [[InherentInTheSystem both of them were screwed over because the powers that be failed them]].

** Even with a staff of four full-time counselors, and assistance from ARC's therapists and Fubar, the school is all too aware that it still isn't enough, given the unique nature of some of the problems, especially for cases where their powers directly cause behavioral changes (as is often the case for Avatars, due to the passenger that shares their head). In addition, you have trauma cases like Pejuta, kids who have been [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer rejected by their friends]] and [[ParentalAbandonment families]], kids who have been attacked by other mutants or hunted by [[FantasticRacism Humanity First!]] and/or the [[GovernmentConspiracy Mutant Commission Office]], kids who were subject to abuse due to their mutation, kids who were victims of [[ParentalNeglect more mundane,]] [[ParentalAbuse but no less tragic]], forms of mistreatment (such as [[CuteButPsycho Jade]] or [[HeroicBSOD Circuit Breaker]]), and even cases of psychic, astral, or magical assaults (such as what [[spoiler:[[MindRape Skybolt and Cavalier]]]] experienced). Just keeping them all going is a monumental undertaking.

** Even Bow suffers from this, confessing that he's sick of always being upbeat and working to keep the gang together, when he's got his own problems to deal with and is exhausted by battles and bickering friends.

* A surprising aversion in ''Series/{{Continuum}}''. Mostly, there's an implied AllTherapistsAreMuggles in play; the protagonist is from the future, so if she tried to talk about her problems, she'd get locked in an asylum. That's exactly what happened to another time traveler (though in fairness, he really had gone crazy as a side effect of the time travel, as evidenced by the fact that he didn't see anything wrong with chatting about being from the future). The aversion comes into play when Kiera strikes an officer in anger, and she finds out that her cybernetic AugmentedReality implant has a therapist AI ''built-in''. He's briefly an inversion of AllTherapistsAreMuggles; he doesn't believe that they're really in the past and assumes she's had a psychotic break, but when he can't contact headquarters, he tables that issue and moves on to her real problems.

** While he does make a miraculous recovery by the end of Season 2, the lack of treatment for Fitz's underlying mental health issues does actually come back in Season 5. With reality warping around the Lighthouse thanks to a dimensional rift manifesting people's fears, Fitz begins hallucinating again but mistakes his visions for literal fragments of the other world, leading to him doing some arguably quite terrible things in the belief that his villainous "Doctor" alter ego from Season 4 has manifested as a separate person running around outside of his control, and not (as turns out to be the case) himself acting out the questionable impulses of a secondary personality.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' tried to avoid this somewhat by instituting the position of "Ship's Counselor", which was the role of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' main cast member Deanna Troi, but still ran into it on occasion. ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' and ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' had excuses though: Ezri Dax was still in training when she was assigned as counselor, while Captain Janeway said in an early episode that ''Voyager'' hadn't been expected to need one (being that the mission they were ''supposed'' to have took place well within shouting distance of a major starbase, Deep Space 9). Chakotay (with his VisionQuest), Neelix (as Morale Officer), and Tuvok (using Vulcan meditation techniques) usually take up the role. It's also something of a RunningGag that actually seeing a counselor ''always'' makes the situation worse. ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'' adds a new complication with Pike and La'an--they ''can't'' seek therapy for issues related to their bouts with TimeTravel because Temporal Affairs told them it would mess up the time line and don't have anyone on ''their'' staff whose job it is to help people traumatized by anything they've seen on their journeys through the timeline.

** While he does make a miraculous recovery by the end of Season 2, the lack of treatment for Fitz's underlying mental health issues does actually come back in Season 5. With reality warping around the Lighthouse, Fitz begins hallucinating again but mistakes his visions for literal fragments of the other world, leading to him doing some arguably quite terrible things in the belief that his "Doctor" persona from Season 4 is a separate entity outside of his control, and not (as turns out to be the case) himself acting out the questionable impulses of a secondary personality.

* A surprising aversion in ''Series/{{Continuum}}''. Mostly, there's an implied AllTherapistsAreMuggles in play; the protagonist is from the future, so if she tried to talk about her problems, she'd get locked in an asylum. That's exactly what happened to another time traveler (though in fairness, he really was crazy, as evidenced by the fact that he didn't see anything wrong with chatting about being from the future). The aversion comes into play when Kiera strikes an officer in anger, and she finds out that her cybernetic AugmentedReality implant has a therapist AI ''built-in''. He's briefly an inversion of AllTherapistsAreMuggles; he doesn't believe that they're really in the past and assumes she's had a psychotic break, but when he can't contact headquarters, he tables that issue and moves on to her real problems.

** Buffy and Faith actually are mentioned as seeing a Watchers Council psychiatrist in [[/Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E16Doppelgangland "Doppelgangland"]] right after Faith accidentally killed a human being on patrol, but it's entirely offscreen, this person never surfaces again, and they were apparently both given a clean bill of mental health very quickly (which in Faith's case was a mistake) after filling in all the right answer bubbles on a huge set of printed tests, making it questionable if he was any good at his job or just thought that spreadsheets were the answer to everything.