Hi, my name is Eileen and today I want to open your eyes to the world of therapy when you are sick, you go to a doctor because you need medicine to get better.

Everyone agrees on that, right?

But what happens when it's not your body, but it's your mind that doesn't feel it's best.

That's what therapy is for.

It's a doctor or medicine for the mind.

Like a detective, a therapist will ask you questions to help you understand your problem and how to fix it.

In high school therapy helped me recover from my eating disorder.

Later when I got divorced, it help me stabilize my life recently, it helped me improve my relationship and communication skills Therapy is something that I go to as a tool to improve many parts of my life.

I lived in philadelphia for four years and while I love that city, I dealt with harassment on a regular basis.

So there's this whole messed up world out there.

We have to deal with and sometimes we don't know how therapy helps you figure out why you feel the way you feel and why you react the way you do.

Therapy also helps you deal with your emotions in our world, there's not always a safe space to talk about how you feel loneliness, shame, anger anxiety, low self esteem insecurity.

It's like a gym for the mind.

You don't go to the gym once you've already gained a lot of weight, you try to go to the gym to prevent gaining weight.

That's the same thing with therapy.

It can help stop a lot of problems.

So people don't just go to therapy because they're looking for a solution to their problem.

It's about maintenance of the thing you're dealing with.

Well, first of all, for most of history, even doctors did not understand mental health.

Doctors would do dangerous surgeries or put you in prison.

Even now, some doctors electrocute people to hell them.

The first documented case goes back thousands of years ago in china.

They thought if you had a mental problem, it meant you were possessed by demons.

So many people are ashamed to say that they go to therapy or they are too ashamed to go at all because they feel judged and socially it's not accepted.

I think as men, it's difficult because we live in a society where we're not used to open up.

I think we need to suppress our feelings that we're not supposed to talk about it, but you can't talk about it.

You can talk about the emotions maybe not to a friend, but at least you're a therapist And COVID has only made things worse in 2026 times more people experienced mental illness than the year before.

In 2019 56% of young people started feeling anxious, depressed or even suicidal.

The thing about mental health is nobody can force you to go and see a therapist.

Nobody can make you go and get help.

This video is not about therapy, it's about the stigma and shame around it, 75% of Americans and Europeans are afraid to ask for help, but it's completely normal to have problems.

It's okay to ask for help.

That is literally why therapists exist to make life easier for people like me and you, if you don't want to go to therapy, you don't have to.

But please don't shame people who do.

Some people think that going to therapy is a red flag, but I think it's a red flag.

If you're not keep working on yourself, keep growing and I'll see you in therapy.