Dr. Anthony McCarthy:

There is an idea that everybody should have counselling and be assessed for serious mental health problems. One of the major challenges in my clinic is that many women come to my service who do not want to have any counselling whatsoever. First, what is a mental health problem? Is it stress after an exam when I was 15? Is it somebody who had anorexia? Is it somebody who had a major depression after bereavement? Something may have happened ten or 15 years ago. Are we going to insist that a person has to talk to a counsellor or expert or psychiatrist in some form? That would be absolutely impossible. We know from our work that if somebody wants to have counselling, he or she will get counselling.