She’s going through a hard time right now, and taking away her bed isn’t going to help her.

When you’re going through a dark time in your life, you will do things you never thought you would do. You might be so down, you can’t take a shower, clean your room, or brush your teeth for days or weeks at a time. You’re a lot more likely to get home from work at 6:30 and go straight to bed because being awake is so much more painful than going to sleep. Alternatively, you might spend all of your waking hours lying in bed while scrolling through Instagram Reels watching other people perform trick shots. I may or may not know this from relatively recent experience, but don’t quote me on that.

Laying in bed all day certainly doesn’t help cure mental health issues, but sometimes that’s better than the alternatives that someone might do when they’re awake. Aggressive intervention for mental health problems is ideal when someone is at the point in their life when they’d rather lay in bed all day than do anything else, and if therapy, psychiatry, and medication aren’t making much of a dent in their desire to lay in bed all day, they might need to seek out a