OP - I have read through this thread, and I am saddened by your low opinion of those who seek counselling.
Following the First World War, it was this 'Stiff Upper Lip' mentality that sent my great-grandfather to a series of mental homes where he spent the rest of his life - over fifty years - because he had shell shock. The 'Great' Britain you long for failed him, and many thousands of his contemporaries.
Today, it is that same 'get on with it' attitude which I am constantly battling in order to get my partner the help he needs. Every time he encounters that approach - from the family you advocate talking to - it sets him back into a bout of introspective depression which comporomises his ability to fuction as a father, carer, and human being. I battle constantly to get him confident enough to confide in a counsellor, because he is unwilling to burden me with his own problems, including of course the strain of caring for me. As it is, he bottles up his problems and gets progressively worse, until I snap myself and we have a traumatic argument which vents his current issues but serves to initiate the next downward spiral.
Every time I think we are getting close to the point where he can begin to resolve his issues, he comes across an opinion such as yours and takes three steps back from opening up and discussing his problems. I suspect (though of course I cannot be sure) that many other people who seek counselling have similar battles prior to getting help from a prefessional who knows when to encourage someone to open up and when to step back and allow them to take their time.
Therefore, a topic such as yours, which questions their needs and advocates that they get a stiff upper lip or tell 'a mate' will obviously receive a lot of negative opinions, because of its potential for serious, long-reaching harm. There are more tactful ways to approach the theory that some people seek counselling for trivial issues, which would cause less damage to the vast majority of those who have had counselling who genuinely needed it, and approaching the matter in this way would have prevented the mild backlash you have experienced.
I hope that, should you feel the need to create a similar topic in future, you consider the potential impact on the people you will attract to the thread, and not cast them in such a defamatory light. Mental health is a serious and sensitive issue, and not one to be dismissed so lightly.