Many people generally mistake people with mental problems to go for counseling. However, everyone experiences stress in life. People have the ability to recover themselves, so many of their problems can be solved without consultation. However, each person has its own weaknesses, so when a person experiences overwhelming pain or an unbearable situation, the self-healing ability cannot be activated. In this case, it is difficult to solve it on your own, so you ask for help from an expert and consult. Receiving counseling when you are unable to live smoothly due to psychological difficulties can be compared to installing a vaccine to treat an abnormality caused by a virus or malware on your computer.

In other words, the person receiving psychological counseling is not a strange person or a weak person, but with a specialist in the process of developing immunity so that they can cope with their vulnerable psychological pain on their own.

(Source: Basics of Counseling Psychology, Jang-Woo Lee, etc.)