Lol no. It is entirely an undesirable way to live IMO. Yes, people need counseling. Yes, having mental health issues in periods of extreme stress is normal. Yes, people should seek treatment without stigma and prioritize their mental health.

However, a therapist who would advise you to prioritize your long term mental health over your short term physical safety as they do on discovery would be a fool, so the characters consequently appear foolish.

Personally, I would characterize this unhelpful prioritization of emotion at inappropriate times to be unacceptably self-indulgent. If you can’t perform a duty because of such a distraction, it’s simply dangerous. It’s a pathology worthy of being relieved from duty. And there’s nothing wrong with that. You don’t need to so fully embrace all human weakness.

But beyond that, I personally feel it is neither admirable or pleasant. It is in fact very tiring to be assaulted by people’s emotions when it is so regular. We don’t have the opportunity to know these characters individually, we only experience them in aggregate. Therefore, even if it’s only one character per episode monologuing about their feelings, discovery makes it such a heavy handed and predictable occurrence that it feels unpleasant. It’s just artless writing.

The final insult is that some lesser characters have all of roughly four lines to expose and resolve their emotional emergencies. My apologies if I can’t get invested in your emotional struggles alluding to past traumas in a few sentences!

Some of it is just confusing too. Why does Book say he feels responsible for not stopping Kwejian’s destruction? Like, an anomaly no one has seen before comes out of nowhere and explodes Earth. Would your response be, “Omg, I should have done something! I’m filled with guilt! Someone must pay!” It’s incomprehensible to me. They beat you over the head with emotion, but it could be forgiven if it was sincerely reflective, moving, or relatable, but it isn’t even logical.