Pretty much. Therapy is difficult to get and expensive. It’s historically been the privilege of the upper classes and it is very difficult to get for non-wealthy people.

And people who have regular access to it use it as a class signifier to feel superior to people who don’t. Also often to the point where they demand everyone be in therapy, regardless of whether it’s needed or not. Which is again, a further signifies wealth and status. Like demanding other people have expensive hobbies or they are subhuman scum. Which is something I notice a lot among the ‘travel’ crowd.

I think therapy should be treated like physical therapy. as it, prescribed when needed.

The funny thing is when I meet/date working class people, they don’t think therapy is something everyone should have, but they acknowledge that mentally ill and distraught people should have access to it. But when I meet/date a upper class professional people, they think you are mentally ill by default if you aren’t actively in therapy forever. They also think anyone who doesn’t wear designer clothing is mentally ill as well.

Is it classist to say “see a doctor” about a more general medical problem?

…because that’s the equivalent advice.