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What's it like in the rest of the world?

Here in Australia we've gone counselling mad. A teenager gets killed in a car smash and the whole fucking school is counselled. A soldier gets killed on active duty or by accident and the whole fucking regiment is counselled. Someone gives you a hard time so you go for counselling. You see something that upsets you so you apply for counselling.

Every time something happens all these fucking counsellors come out of the woodwork with their little suitcases and are over everyone like a rash.
Universities are offering degrees in counselling. Schoolkids want to grow up and be counsellors. Counsellors are ADVERTISING. WTF.

Give me the sailor who was trapped under his damaged yacht for four days in the Southern Ocean before being rescued by the RAN. When he was brought back to Sydney he was asked by some plonker if he wanted counselling.

He replied "Fuck off, take me to the nearest pub." Brilliant!

All counsellors - Get fucked.