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.

大家好，我叫艾琳，今天我想讓大家看看治療的世界，當你生病時，你會去看醫生，因為你需要藥物來改善。

Everyone agrees on that, right?

每個人都同意這一點，對嗎？

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

但是，當不是你的身體，而是你的頭腦感覺不到它的最佳狀態時會發生什麼。

That's what therapy is for.

這就是治療的目的。

It's a doctor or medicine for the mind.

它是心靈的醫生或藥物。

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

像偵探一樣，治療師會向你提問，幫助你瞭解你的問題以及如何解決它。

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

在高中時，治療幫助我從飲食失調中恢復過來。

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.

後來當我離婚時，它幫助我穩定了最近的生活，它幫助我改善了我的關係和溝通技巧，治療是我去作為一個工具來改善我生活的許多部分。

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

我在費城生活了四年，雖然我喜歡那座城市，但我經常處理騷擾問題。

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

是以，外面有整個混亂的世界。

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.

我們必須處理，有時我們不知道治療如何幫助你弄清楚為什麼你有這樣的感覺，為什麼你有這樣的反應。

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.

治療還可以幫助你處理你的情緒，在我們的世界裡，並不總是有一個安全的空間來談論你的感覺，孤獨，羞恥，憤怒焦慮，低自尊的不安全感。

It's like a gym for the mind.

這就像一個心靈的健身房。

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.

一旦你的體重已經增加了很多，你就不會再去健身房了，你要努力去健身房以防止體重增加。

That's the same thing with therapy.

這與治療是一樣的。

It can help stop a lot of problems.

它可以幫助阻止很多問題。

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

所以人們不只是因為尋找解決問題的辦法而去治療。

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

這是對你所處理的事情的維護。

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

嗯，首先，在歷史上的大部分時間裡，即使是醫生也不瞭解心理健康。

Doctors would do dangerous surgeries or put you in prison.

醫生們會做危險的手術，或者把你關進監獄。

Even now, some doctors electrocute people to hell them.

即使是現在，一些醫生也會電擊人，讓他們下地獄。

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

第一個有記載的案例可以追溯到幾千年前的中國。

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

他們認為如果你有精神問題，就意味著你被惡魔附身了。

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.

許多人羞於說他們去接受治療，或者他們根本不好意思去，因為他們覺得被評判，社會上不接受。

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

我認為作為男人，這很難，因為我們生活在一個不習慣開放的社會中。

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

我認為我們需要壓制自己的感覺，我們不應該談論它，但你不能談論它。

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.

你可以談論情緒也許不是對朋友，但至少你是個治療師而COVID只會讓事情變得更糟2026年經歷精神疾病的人比前一年多。

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

2019年，56%的年輕人開始感到焦慮、抑鬱，甚至有自殺傾向。

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

關於心理健康的問題，沒有人可以強迫你去看治療師。

Nobody can make you go and get help.

沒有人可以讓你去獲得幫助。

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.

這個視頻不是關於治療，而是關於圍繞治療的恥辱和羞恥，75%的美國人和歐洲人害怕尋求幫助，但有問題是完全正常的。

It's okay to ask for help.

請求幫助是可以的。

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.

這就是為什麼治療師存在的原因，使像我和你這樣的人的生活更容易，如果你不想去治療，你就不必去了。

But please don't shame people who do.

但請不要羞辱那些做的人。

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

有些人認為，去治療是一個紅旗，但我認為這是一個紅旗。

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

如果你沒有繼續為自己努力，繼續成長，我會在治療中看到你。