This is likely true; I wonder why no one else has suggested it, including Debbie?

Therapy is mental health medical treatment, analogous to physical medical treatment; albeit with entirely unique challenges, it is just as important to maintain ones mental health with as much care as ones physical health. After being beaten to pieces by his own father, Mark was treated for his physical wounds, but not his mental ones. Why not?

As for your analogy, it covers a very specific minority of people, who went through a vastly different experience. PTSD is not the same for everyone, it varies massively depending on the specific circumstances of what happened and how it impacted the victim.

I think you’re coming at this in bad faith and with a very narrow view point.

Yes, precisely why why I am confused why they aren’t in therapy? If they’d had their bodies broken they’d be in a hospital (Mark in fact, was). But why are they not getting treatment for their damaged mental health?

You misunderstood me; quotation marks imply sarcasm. Of course he’s not fine, but he’s trying to give the outward appearance that he is; a thin veil that his loved ones see through. Hence why I think it’s incredulous that no one has foisted a therapist on him.