I remember from school, doing ANYTHING will cure 40% of all mental illnesses. Thus if you talk to a friend, engage in shoping therapy, or some new age quakery, it will make you feel better for having tried SOMETHING.
Homosexuals who are activists don't want treatment the same way a crack addict does not want treatment.
That makes a lot of sense. So many "mental illnesses" are about people that sit around with nothing on their minds but themselves.