Dr. Eric Bender

And that takes time.

So a TV show is limited to a certain amount of time.

You're not going to show therapy unfold the way it would, but you can take elements of it.

I think it is getting more accurate.

I think it's being depicted better.

It's not that I find them as bad.

It's just, I'm like, oh, I wish they'd done that a little differently.

So I think I'll give you a great example of where I was really excited and I thought, oh, they could have even done a little bit more was Never Have I Ever, Mindy Kaling's show.

I thought it was great.

There was a bunch of adolescents.

One of them was seeing a therapist after the death of a family member and had been seeing that therapist for years.

And it was really great because that doctor had an understanding of adolescent behavior and understanding how this teenager might've seen herself

And the teenager went to that therapist repeatedly for help and guidance.

But there were a couple of things.

I think it was a comedy.

Like she would break in to the office, kind of like bust into the office when the therapist was having lunch.

And there could have been a patient there.

Like people just don't do that.

So there I was like, oh, this is great.

But, you know, and then also there was a time when the therapist hugged the patient.