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If you actually feel fine, then of course therapy isn’t likely to do much for you. The idea is if you’re feeling terrible enough to evaluate yourself, but it turns out you likely aren’t suffering from burnout, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t look into therapy. Often people think they are suffering from burnout, but it turns out they actually have underlying trauma, anxiety, depression, etc. unrelated to work stress.


Everyone, even healthy people, should attend therapy if able. There's a lot of tricky ground to navigate as a person and you don't have to be experiencing trauma to get help.


It is a technology to get more satisfactory outcomes from life. Not sure why you wouldn't use it.


> Everyone, even healthy people, should attend therapy if able.

I feel like this is just a weaponized meme developed for the purpose of marketing.


Marketing what? Mental health? Everything isn't some shill post or /r9k/ nonsense. People do speak authentically.


Therapy. Therapy is a service, and one that in my experience is of dubious value. It is difficult to look at a statement that is essentially "pay for something you don't need" and not think of it as marketing.




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