ELI5: Why do so many Americans seek help from therapists?

Well, reddit has a majority of whites and males, so let me tell you about the plight of white males in America.

We never get help, from anybody, for any reason. Even our own parents will often shun us if we need them. We don't have our own college funds, we don't have hiring quotas, and we don't have college entrance quotas, and we don't have any safety nets.

Where the rest of US society fails, they just gather up their things and start over. When a white male fails we are ruined forever, perpetually knowing nobody will ever trust us to succeed. There are few higher divorce rates in the nation than a white male losing his job. EVERYBODY bails on us in an instant.

And for those of us that do succeed? God forbid we mention we did so without all the handouts that every other aspect of our society gets. Clearly we were just born with "white and male privilege". Sure didn't seem like it growing up in a trailer park in Flint, fucking Michigan, but there it is.

And which demographic do you suppose it is the most societally acceptable to discriminate and hate against? White. Males. Women can openly hate them. Blacks can openly hate them. Hispanics can openly hate them. All day every single day. But we say the words "bitch, nigger, or spic" and we're pretty much exiled from decent society.

And though we are all clearly upset about it, we aren't allowed to show even the faintest hint of emotion. Is it any wonder we make up the most successful suicides by 4x other demographics? When society treats us all so terribly is it any wonder the perpetrators of crimes so heinous they can only be describes as "crimes against society" are almost exclusively perpetrated by younger white males?

White males in the US = "Hold our entire culture on your back while we treat you like utter misogynistic shit for it."

So yeah, I pay somebody for simple sympathy.

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