A real therapist who actually wants to help her, wouldn't tell her she needs exposure therapy. They would tell Zoe how it is. That she needs to grow up, stop behaving like a spoilt brat and go and live her own life.
I'm am not saying Zoe is making up that she has anxiety, as she probably does have a mild anxiety disorder. But it is quite clear she exaggerates it for sympathy and as an excuse to be lazy. Im not a professional in the field, but I was dragged through the Irish mental health system since I was 16 and have seen so many people like Zoe give anxiety and depression just increase the stigma around mental illness not make it better.
If Zoe is as anxious as she makes out to the point she can't leave her house to see a therapist, then any therapist worth their salt would be referring her to a G.P. Who would give her an assessment, if her anxiety was moderate to severe, as she likes to make out. The G.P. would try out medications to seewhat would work the dosing etc. If her anxiety was still severe enough that she couldn't leave her house. She would get a psych referral. Zie has enough money she could private and probably see the best in the UK.
But yet Zoe has never once mentioned a G.P or pysch or the different therapies which help anxiety. She only says I just spoke with my therapist, I have anxiety.
I dont expect someone to be open with an illness it there personnel business, but if she is going to bring it up then, she should be saying what she actually does to help how she overcomes it. Because by just mentioning it, it is making anxiety seem like it is just a made up illness that doesn't require a medical diagnosis and is just an excuse to be lazy. When well known figures do this and make mental illness like a fashion accessory. Then people with actual mental illness, who spend years working up the courage to disclose their illness to friends or family are met with scepticism and amusement to the point where people think it a mental illness is just a play for sympathy or an excuse.
Apologies for the rant, but it is people like Zoe who casually throw around phrases like anxiety, but actually do very little to help themselves which irrayates me know end. They don't help end the stigma they actually make it worse.