21 TV Characters Who Could Use A Therapist

A drunk driver killed her parents in a car accident when she was eighteen. She handled that well as she now helps guide the families of murder victims in her free time. But imagine being a firsthand witness to that and having a visual memory of what really happened? It would be tough if she hadn't seen someone professionally. She even mentioned she dropped out of Caltech and went rogue by teaching herself computer coding. Penelope even had a near-death accident wherein one of her dates turned out to be gun-wielding and shot her. She made it out alive, but the trauma was a lot.

When mental illnesses are depicted by someone on a genius-level intellect like Elliot, it's no wonder these people resort to drugs. It's almost like having a perpetual type of intelligence. Mix that with the hallucinations and never-ending voices in your head that define your life, day by day. Elliot is not diagnosed with anything because he isn't the type of person who would go to people to ask for solutions. That's one of the problems. He needs to have people in his life who he'd listen to more than he listens to inside voices.

Was there ever a term for medieval psychologists? Anyway, Cersei has made it to the list because she's one troubled character. She has a certain paranoia wherein she needs to be the one with power. She slept with his brother and claimed her children were her husband's and killed a lot of people. That said, being a mind like Cersei's while being placed in a patriarchal society is too much on her. Her environment can be considered toxic. If she wasn't born in such a place, you can only imagine if Cersei would have been a different type of person. She's also very dependent on alcohol, which is obviously her way to medicate herself out of her problems.

When someone's too unemotional or very stoic as Melinda May, it mostly proves that they've had more ill-fated lives than most. That said, while it is apparent that may isn't the most vocal of all in the group, she feels a lot. Repressed and unspoken feelings tend to escape our system one way or another after being hidden for a long time, and it's ugly most of the time. Melinda May needs to see a psychologist to take it all out. Sadly, Andrew, her psychologist and ex-husband, died.

You know how it feels when you're being compared to another person? It sucks! But, what if you meet someone who looks like you and is actually considered your counterpart? Alpha and Prime are from different dimensions but are the same person. After meeting each other, it must be hard to see what their lives could have become. That type of comparison has to be doing a number on them.