Seeing a shrink, damn if you do or damned if you don't?

It is said if you feel overwhelmed, unstable, unsettled, etc you should seek help even if it is in the form of seeing a shrink. Doesn’t seeing a shrink have a high potential of backfiring? If you seek therapy it can be used against you. Instead of people recognizing you needed some mental help that you could not provide for yourself, you went to one who could. But can be used against you in custody battles, getting that promotion, getting hired, etc. If you can get slandered or maligned as insane, mentally not fit to _______, or crazy why would anyone want to go see a shrink? And is that type of thinking is why people who maybe if they went to a shrink early enough they would not go shooting up their former work place or gunning down fellow students at school?

If you one don’t go and end up doing a very violent crime either people will say he/she was very sane even if the nature and reason of the crime seem crazy, or people will be asking ”why didn’t anyone help him/her?” or “_How come no one got him/her some help?”_.