All you’re gonna do is make it harder for people who already struggle with asking for help by making them feel shame. Shame is not a productive emotion nor is it even an accurate one in this case. Also the way you phrased it sounded like you were saying “skill issue” to people’s mental health concerns. Or at the very least it sounded very dismissive and victim blamey

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I guess it really depends on the kind of help and the reasoning for not getting help. In active addiction, I was selfish. I knew I had a problem but didn’t want to make a change because I liked what I was doing so much. There was a separate time in my life where I thought getting help meant accepting defeat, so I didn’t. Two different situations, two different reasons.

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