#2023 Round Up Day 8 : The character(s) who most screams for mental health care…

Park Tae-soo:Secret Royal Inspector and Jo-yi

Try fighting against being cursed just because of your maternal link. Despite being the most perfect son a man can wish to birth, alas! his father only sought to use him all because he was born of a slave woman.
Throughout his lifetime he fought against the chain that was wrapped around his neck. And while I wished that he came out alive, albeit paying for his sins, I was so sad to see him die off in the most gruesome manner, this is after suffering one inhumane treatment after another at almost every point of his life. Turns out the other son, who is a definite flight risk were we in modern era, was the one born of a slave. Yeah! Mentally deranged guy’s birth mom did a baby switch.

So I want him to get therapy, just so he can know that he doesn’t need the validation of any member of his deranged family. That at the end of the day, when he has sift through everything, he was the only sane person in that household. H screams therapy for me cause I really wanted him to break himself free of the shackles that followed him basically everywhere.

One little minion who definitely needs therapy is Heo Yun-ok in Alchemy of Souls 2. All I can say is she needs help. Pining after a man who clearly doesn’t see you as a woman is absolutely no appealing trait, nor is it strength.

Lee Jang-hyun:My Dearest – Why exactly does this man scream therapy? He has suffered enough. I need him to go into therapy so he can learn that he does not have to put himself in harm’s way for Joseon when the heads themselves are weaklings who are after saving their own skin. He needs therapy so that Gil-chae won’t become a sudden widow thanks to his selflessness. He screams therapy solely for me to be sure of Gil-chae’s peace of mind. This woman won’t complain for sure, but damn, you kept leaving for a ‘noble cause’. And each time, it was by tooth and nail you returned alive. I need the therapist to prescribe Jang-hyun the drug Let Joseon Crash and Burn cause his death won’t stop it.

Royal Noble Consort Ji:Crash Course In Romance – This drama did Shin Jae-ha and Ji Dong-hui dirty. What should have been a good moment to expatiate on one area of the many mental health conditions – toxic emotional dependence – and the need for therapy, alas! they opted for suicide. So I really want this guy in a room, with a therapist. So he can learn that let Chi-yeol have his life, and by that he will be on the way to getting well as well.

Honorable Mentions

Lee Hyo-shim, Lee Hyo-shim’s mother, Lee Hyo-jun, Kang Tae-min, Lee Hyo-do : Live Your Own Life
Han Yu-ra, Seo Jung-wook, Seo Young-kyun : Perfect Marriage Revenge
King Injo : My Dearest
Go Ah-in : Agency
Van : Island 1&2
All the cast : Pandora; Seven Escape.
Deborah : Bora! Deborah
Cheon-myung : TOT9T1938
All the moms : Happiness Battle
Kim Eun-mi and Kim Jin-hee : Not Others. I need this two to learn in therapy that they should look at pursuing having a life outside each other.