By the way, what the fuck is therapy? Is it just a shoulder to cry on and a money sink? Does she not talk to her parents?
don't want to pl, but from my understanding it was supposed to be an educated person on psychology to talk to, that wasn't supposed to be a "friend", *and* if you ever get too attached they cut you off, for mutual safety and to help prevent obsessions or weird shit. it's a tv show but the sopranos had some fictionalized examples of that. and the person would be educated on problems/trauma, where they'd likely/could stem from, and eventually help you help yourself, even if it's as simple as asking yourself the right questions. there are grounds for them to be respected and used in theory, just like how there's manipulative psychology and instructions people can use to harm like how to identify and coerce weak and vulnerable people, there do exist ways to help people untie mental knots they make, deal with trauma, ptsd etc. exposure therapy is the easiest example, like if you don't like spiders, watch jumping spiders, small friendly ones in webs, and it helps at least keep fears to natural levels (venom bad, black widow dangerous) instead of spazzing tf out (omfg a fuckin tiny fly eater). some mental issues can just be a permanent thing, but many can be worked on.
i went to one therapist, and he himself seemed pretty good at first, paraphrased recommended to watch funny stuff and avoid blackpills/news, listen to good music, and he thought most issues were self inflicted and would need time to work through them. started giving me info on expected time, and how he was going to set me up with another therapist there, i was on board at first because first one was fairly to the point and did help, but the second one was frankly absolute dog shit. if i remember correctly the first visit there wasn't even "how was your day, how do you feel" it was just an introduction that cost like 50 or so dollars. went out and told family she wanted to be my friend and someone i could talk to etc. didn't go back and never wanted a refund so bad.
it's all thoroughly in the new age sphere now, whether maliciously for money or because people have minimal standards and tell therapists how great it is to just shoot the shit with a money hose attached probably varies. it's not as bad as the online reiki shit i have one family member doing though, that's the most retarded free money i've ever heard, but when people get on some of that it's as hard as getting them to convert, and it's very hard to tell them anything without sounding like an asshole and/or making them furious.
ian and anisa definitely have a full on "how you doin sugar honey bunch" ""doctor"". ian continually gets publically humiliated, visibly uncomfortable, disassociates, and anisa just cheerfully continues, and that's when she's not in bpd crash mode. any doctor that helped him turn into the abused husk he is now is not a therapist at all, nor one that supports anisa's ego and twitter leftist brainrot. biggest surface problem is they continually lie to themselves, ian is living white guilt, says he's changed but edgy humor keeps coming more and more back towards acceptable targets, went from having emotions to not and then saying NOW he does, any of anisa's actions are rewritten to be on someone else, only fans was ian's idea, heavily working on content his idea, etc etc. they also reinforce each other's illness, ian agrees that he's shit and anisa's awesome, and anisa says "well yeah ian's always been retarded" etc. ian might have a shot at happiness if he broke up with anisa, dealt with the grief, dropped off the internet, and either got with someone else or just stealth drops animal videos in a couple years. it would be interesting to see if positive reinforcement would help him or if he'd be terminally retarded. anisa i see nothing besides just average bpd harpy, horrible as shit then "im sorry baby daddy loves you" nearly anyone's an upgrade and she refuses to work on herself or to be a decent person to the person she made wedding vows with