10 Times Out of 10, it’s Better to go to Therapy Than to Laser Someone’s Head Off

Think about this question really hard: What do you do in the skybridges, when they’re at a standstill and your next event is starting in 10 minutes? Bet your answer is something normal. Like maybe get slightly annoyed, or zone out while patiently waiting to get through? Please let it be that, and not lasering or speed running through everyone. Four therapists gathered to discuss these and other pressing questions in “The Boys: Therapy with The Seven,” in Westin Chastain F on Saturday at 4PM.

Hailing from two Atlanta mental health practices, Bridgepoint Clinic and Arted Out, panelists Edward Dickson Hicks, Mim Long, Brittany Legnam, and Caroline Mimer dove into how they would best use their expertise to help the characters of The Boys redirect their trauma reactions into something more productive than what we see in the show.

For four seasons, viewers watched as their favorite anti-heroes went on an increasingly tumultuous journey (why have we seen so many insides so far, and how many more insides will we see in the final season??) – likely one of the wildest storylines any satire can offer. Through those seasons, it is pretty obvious to (hopefully) most that these Supes, their rivals, and everyone in between need an unbiased resource to navigate their traumas.

The conversation with the therapists circled mainly on Homelander (for obvious reasons to anyone who has seen the show), and on The Deep (for more obvious reasons). Viewers have a lot to learn about how to survive past trauma as an adult, and please don’t do what Homelander and The Deep did: Keep the laser eyes and cult-joining to yourself. (Unless you’re at Dragon Con; our cults are way cool and you should definitely join the Cult of Buc-ee’s.)

The panel ended with a few questions from attendees. A great one came about Maeve, who managed her journey to a healthier mindset a bit quicker than some of the others. The attendee asked how the panelists would best help her. Given her intentional effort to grow, they recommended an introspective therapy or art therapy – just to get to the roots of her trauma and build the foundation from there.

An hour was too short to really get into the volume and types of therapy needed by The Seven, The Boys, and everyone who works at Vought International. It was interesting to hear the tip of the iceberg for their needs from professionals. Hopefully we’ll see some more personal development from the crew in the fifth and final season. We know some people they can call.

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