2. Aren't There Therapists?
BlogspotPretty much every superhero's modus operandi is rooted in some mental health issue or another. Superman's dealing with some serious parental and abandonment issues, the emptiness he feels about his destroyed home planet and family leading him to make sure the same never happens to his adopted home of Earth. Batman retains the psychic scars of seeing his parents murdered by a mugger before his very eyes, which he channels into trying to wipe crime off the face of the Earth, to make sure nobody has to suffer as he did. Spider-Man feels the crippling responsibility to use his powers to help others above all else, thanks to being sort of responsible for his Uncle Ben dying. These are all disorders that people in the real world deal with...sort of. There are even some heroes who have suffered from actual psychological maladies, with Moon Knight's multiple personalities and the countless superpeople who have struggled to deal with what's clearly post traumatic stress disorder following particularly testing story arcs. The way these lot carry on, you'd think that there weren't any therapists in the world of comic books that could help them deal with their problems! Actually, aren't there any? There must be, because they crop up every so often. So how come Clark Kent has never opened up to a trusted confidante about the reasons he pushes himself to such limits, Bruce Wayne's never admitted to feeling responsible for his parents' deaths and been told to forgive himself, and Peter Parker's not gotten help for being an orphan (effectively) several times over? No reason. We refer you to the earlier "comics, innit".