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Sounds like maybe you had the wrong therapist or psychologist or counselor.
Not every psychologist is effective with every patient. Sometimes people need to try 2 or 3 different therapists.
Maybe the therapist did not address or dig deep enough on what is troubling you. Or perhaps you didn't reveal enough.
I am in the middle here. To my mind a good therapist needs to be rooted in reality and pragmatism, not in theory. That's a hard mixture to find. But if you find one they are great, at least, for confidential advice.
Didn't you already do this thread a few months ago?
Therapy is not a waste of time and money for everyone. It changed the way I think and view the world immensely, and gave me better skills for navigating life.
Of course it didn't "do anything for you". That's not what therapy is. It's YOU doing the work to make change within yourself with the therapist guiding you. If you think someone else is going to fix you, then yeah, therapy is a waste of time and money, but you are the one wasting it.
If it’s therapeutic for somebody, then why not utilize it. The feeling & sense of being pro-active & any relief it may bring, certainly won’t make anything worse ...
Which is more than you can say about the majority of psychotropic medications.
My same conclusion. The doctor was almost 60 and had gray receding hair, but all I could see was a frat kid stifling his laughter. And getting paid for it. Going to therapy wasn't my idea and it's not something I'll try again. I'll research on my own.
I knew my therapist was playing games with me when I asked for patient records and the therapist gave me the runaround. I walked out the door, up to the secretary, asked for what I wanted, and got what I asked for. I left and never came back.
Finally, a thread that warns people about how inane therapy can be. Even a duck knows what to call a person practicing it. (See what I did there? ) The only things I encountered in therapy were rhetorical questions and naive platitudes. Like, "How did that make you feel?" and "Just tell them how you feel.", respectively. Even worse, the therapist didn't believe me when I answered the questions! To fight back, I ended up giving the most kooky, outlandish answers I could come up with; then, the therapist believed me, thinking I was being honest.
Finally, a thread that warns people about how inane therapy can be. Even a duck knows what to call a person practicing it. (See what I did there? ) The only things I encountered in therapy were rhetorical questions and naive platitudes. Like, "How did that make you feel?" and "Just tell them how you feel.", respectively. Even worse, the therapist didn't believe me when I answered the questions! To fight back, I ended up giving the most kooky, outlandish answers I could come up with; then, the therapist believed me, thinking I was being honest.
I guess by the same analogy if you go to the doctor for the flu and don't get cured, all doctors are a waste of time?
LOL or better yet if you pick up a prescription and the medicine doesn't work, hey then we must warn all people about how inane pharmacies can be.
It's not magic.
just like every other profession, there are good ones and bad ones. I guess if your kids get a bad teacher you let them drop out of school.
there are bad doctors, bad lawyers, bad accountants, bad teachers......
Anyone notice how on c-d if some thing doesn't work it's automatically some one else's fault and couldn't possibly be the posters???
I guess by the same analogy if you go to the doctor for the flu and don't get cured, all doctors are a waste of time?
LOL or better yet if you pick up a prescription and the medicine doesn't work, hey then we must warn all people about how inane pharmacies can be.
By that analogy, let's say you go to a doctor and/or pharmacist, to get your flu treated. Nothing works; you still have the symptoms. The doctor turns around and blames you for not being honest with about your symptoms not going away . Or worse, he/she tells you "No, you never had a stuffy nose." All because they have a personal agenda against stuffy noses, or their textbook says that noses don't get stuffy.
The point is: therapy doesn't have concrete benchmarks to measure by, that regular medicine does. Due to the nature of the human mind, every practitioner can force their agenda on the client, and can CYA far too easily. Which makes it extremely easy to simply blame the client, rather than admit that a duck trying to talk was right about you.
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) The only things I encountered in therapy were rhetorical questions and naive platitudes. Like, "How did that make you feel?" and "Just tell them how you feel.", respectively. Even worse, the therapist didn't believe me when I answered the questions! 
To fight back, I ended up giving the most kooky, outlandish answers I could come up with; then, the therapist believed me, thinking I was being honest. 
