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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Steven is very good at getting others to open up and helping them through whatever emotional problems are plaguing them. However, he frequently does this at the expense of dealing with his ''own'' personal issues until they overwhelm him. [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E20WhatsYourProblem "What's Your Problem?"]] focuses on Amethyst's acknowledgement of the issue. She spends the episode trying to get Steven to have fun and open up about how ''he'' feels about a recent, very personal, still-fresh reveal, even as Steven himself is focused on finding and helping the runaway Ruby. When Steven tries to get ''Amethyst'' to talk, Amethyst makes it very clear that she has no intention of dumping "another thousand-year-old complex" onto him and making him feel responsible for something he's under no obligation to deal with. ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' focuses on Steven, no longer having anyone who needs his help following the end of the original series, slowly starting to buckle under the weight of all his unresolved issues and bottled up trauma.

* ''Series/{{Skins}}'': Leon Levan is a life coach and motivational speaker. One of his sons has been thrown out of the house and now lives the life of an aimless drifter, and the other one feels as though he is imperfect, the inferior son and finally ends up destroying their kitchen.

* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': Dr. Malcolm Long. Even though he is a psychiatrist, his relationship with his wife is dysfunctional. Overlaps with CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Steven is very good at getting others to open up and helping them through whatever emotional problems are plaguing them. However, he frequently does this at the expense of dealing with his ''own'' personal issues until they overwhelm him. [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E20WhatsYourProblem "What's Your Problem?"]] focuses on Amethyst's acknowledgement of the issue. She spends the episode trying to get Steven to have fun and open up about how ''he'' feels about a recent, very personal, still-fresh reveal, even as Steven himself is focused on finding and helping the runaway Ruby. When Steven tries to get ''Amethyst'' to talk, Amethyst makes it very clear that she has no intention of dumping "another thousand-year-old complex" onto him and making him feel responsible for something he's under no obligation to deal with. ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' focues on Steven, no longer having anyone who needs his help following the end of the original series, slowly starting to buckle under the weight of all his unresolved issues and bottled up trauma.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** "No Man's Land" kicks off with an 8.3 earthquake that devastates Gotham. Fortunately for Bruce, he had always insisted that all of Wayne Enterprise's buildings needed to be built to withstand 9.0 earthquakes. Unfortunately for Bruce, he forgot about Wayne Manor and the Batcave. (He later admits to himself that he had meant to, but kept worrying that any workers he had hired would discover his identity, and had no personal skills in that area to speak of.)
** Harley Quinn getting a Ph.D. in psychology did not help her diagnose her own growing obsessions with ComicBook/TheJoker. Though how she got said Ph.D. [[DependingOnTheWriter varies from writer to writer]]. In some versions, she slept with her professor to obtain it.

* In ''ComicBook/RunawaysRainbowRowell'', Karolina Dean is studying to become a social worker, or possibly even a therapist, but seems oblivious to all the dysfunction happening among her adopted family. Granted, her burgeoning relationship with Nico may be distracting her.
* Dr. Malcolm Long in ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''. Even though he is a psychiatrist, his relationship with his wife is dysfunctional. Overlaps with CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure

* Detective Kate Beckett in ''Series/{{Castle}}'' is a brilliant and successful homicide detective who is, at the beginning of the series, nevertheless completely unable to make any headway in investigating her own mother's murder and locating the persons responsible, and it's been in large part due to the help she's received from Richard Castle in investigating it over the series that she's made any headway thus far. Justified both in that Beckett tends to suffer from tunnel vision and emotional compromise whenever her mother's case comes up, and it eventually comes to light that [[spoiler:her mother's death was part of a larger conspiracy with a US senator at the top]].

* In the memoir ''Literature/TheRiseTheFallAndTheRise'' by Brix Smith-Start, [[note]]best known as a member of Music/TheFall for a time with her then-husband Mark E. Smith[[/note]] Brix wonders how her psychiatrist father was so good at his job despite his own myriad psychological issues.

* ''ComicBook/DCOneMillion'': Heartiac is a "12th-level compassionate". She defeats bad guys with sheer kindness. She gives lectures on forgiveness. Her species is just as devoted to love as their Coluan ancestors (EG Braniac) were to intellect, and she's a bright star even in that firmament. And she can't tell Superman One Million that she's fallen for him. Or notice that he seems to have more than a colleague's interest in her.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Steven is very good at getting others to open up and helping them through whatever emotional problems are plaguing them. However, he frequently does this at the expense of dealing with his ''own'' personal issues until they overwhelm him. [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E20WhatsYourProblem "What's Your Problem?"]] focuses on Amethyst's acknowledgement of the issue. She spends the episode trying to get Steven to have fun and open up about how ''he'' feels about a recent, very personal, still-fresh reveal, even as Steven himself is focused on finding and helping the runaway Ruby. When Steven tries to get ''Amethyst'' to talk, Amethyst makes it very clear that she has no intention of dumping "another thousand-year-old complex" onto him and making him feel responsible for something he's under no obligation to deal with.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Foxfire}}'' despite being the owner of a tea shop, Pao is pretty bad at actually making tea and is reliant on Mushi and Li to do so. In Pao's defense, he's a much better businessman.

* In developer commentary it's been noted that ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' creator Creator/HideoKojima suffers from [=3D=] motion sickness and thus is unable to play many modern [=3D=] games, particular faster-paced or first-person games like [[FirstPersonShooter First Person Shooters]].

* ''Film/TheImpossibleYears'' is a 1960s play/film about the home life of a college professor and psychologist who writes materials on family relations. Specifically, on how to handle teenagers (authoritatively espousing a lax parenting style). But he has teenage daughters himself. You can see where this is going... (And what ''was'' the word on the other side of that sign?)

** In ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', he compulsively quotes the (always low) odds of survival whenever the Rebels take a risky strategy, even after Han explicitly makes it clear that he doesn't want to hear it and doesn't care either way.
*** When he walks in on Han and Leia passionately kissing, it doesn't occur to him that maybe his news about the reversed power coupling could wait a moment.

** In the series, it is often commented on how the Weasley family have old and slightly threadbare clothing, due to them being somewhat poor. It is baffling, given the extent and complexity of the spells seen commonly used in this verse, that "tailoring" isn't simplicity itself. Arthur and Molly, in particular, are shown to be quite skilled at magic, though there are seven kids' worth of clothes to deal with (albeit two of them grown up and on their own by the beginning of the series). It's also hard to see why they can't magic up a bigger, better house.
*** This is largely justified by the fact that magical tailoring is implied to be a specialist skill, given that every young witch and wizard goes to a magical tailor for school robes, and conjuration is a very difficult aspect of transfiguration - plus there's the small issues of plumbing, heating, etc.

* In one story about ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'', he and Watson break into the house of blackmailer Milverton, which goes horribly wrong. After that, Holmes comments that for all years where he looked for criminals based on small clues they left, he still didn't manage to cover ''his own tracks''.

* The team in ''Series/CriminalMinds'' are brilliant criminal profilers, but have massively messed-up personal lives. In fact, the two members of the team who are probably the least messed up? They're the two who aren't actually profilers. The team does have a tendency to profile each other, but while they're great at deconstructing other people's behavior, they miss the emotional signs of those around them. Hotch was unaware of his wife's growing displeasure with his absence from her and their son's life, though it was quite obvious.

* In ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter'' it is repeatedly quoted that "doctors cannot operate themselves".
** However, in ''[[Videogame/TraumaCenter Trauma Team]]'', Gabriel Cunningham has to examine his own son, Joshua Cunningham.

* Statistically, doctors are more likely to drink habitually, smoke, be depressed, and/or be suicidal than the general populace. All of these eventually lead to medical intervention of one stripe or another (unless the suicidal succeeds).
** And, of course, to ''become'' doctors they need to get through medical school and residency, which typically entail chronic sleep deprivation, intermittent hasty meals, and high-stress overwork for years on end. It's a wonder that most doctors ''don't'' end up being [[DrJerk total assholes.]]

** This is actually far from unique in history. For example in Habsburg Spain, the Castilians were powerless to stop the king from bleeding them dry with taxes compared to the Basques, Catalans, or Portuguese, because the Castilian parliament was depowered in the aftermath of the 1517 Comuneros revolt (unrelatedly, the American colonies also cost Spain more money to maintain than they gave back until the Bourbons reformed the system in the 18th century). In the Ottoman Empire, the Anatolian Turks were stereotyped as country rubes by urban elites that were often Greek, Armenian, or Albanian in origin. And in the modern-day United Kingdom, England is the only of four constituent countries without a devolved parliament.

** Postwar Britain also fell victim to this. To pay their war debt, they were forced to export the best product of their world-renowned coal mines to the US and other markets. Domestic consumption was reduced to poor, polluting lignite coal, which was responsible for the infamous "London Fog" - really a toxic smog that claimed many lives before coal power stations in the city were phased out.