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Society has been conditioned to treat symptoms instead of root causes. You complain about real problems, and everyone acts like you are the problem.
Then, unless you luck out and find a genuinely good therapist, the therapist just helps you cope. The therapist does not fix anything, does not heal. Instead, they give you drugs and techniques for pretending problems aren't problems, all while the problems get worse and worse.
That has been my experience so far. I'm trying a fifth therapist in a week, but I'm not optimistic. I'm in the United States, everything is a scam.
Are you using one of the online therapy things? My therapist gets tons of offers to join those, but refuses because most of those services are pretty exploitative.
I tried three online therapists from three different services, all with poor results. Recently I went to the local community health center and had a session and a half with one therapist before requesting to be rescheduled with another.
I think part of the problem is that higher education in the US is fucked. Like everything else, it's a scam, and it also serves other scams. For-profit healthcare is for profit, not for healthcare. So the therapists follow a flawed script and seemingly have nothing to offer but superficial coping mechanisms and prescriptions that treat some symptoms while causing other side effects and not actually fixing any underlying issues.
oh yea and some"therapist" arnt properly certified or accredited in some states. in our state you likely need a license and actual certification to even practice, physical or mental.
Sometimes you just have to find out what tools you need, them find and sort how to use them by looking for yourself. It's not a meal deal at McDonald's.