[scajanus]

You don't think there's a causal relationship between being unhappy and seeking therapy?

Also the goal of therapy is to get to a place where you can quit it, so it makes sense that once people are more content with their lives they wouldn't go anymore.

[borroka]

The goal of therapy should be to get you to a point where you can quit. The therapist's goal may or may not be (I prefer the "may not be") to get you to a point where you can quit. I am not saying that it is in the interest of therapists to keep someone in therapy, and thus pay them, for as long as possible, but at the same time there seems to be, especially for some therapists, an almost endless reservoir of people who have been led to believe that talk therapy is much more useful than it is empirically. I don't think that the majority of therapists are worried about losing a paying customer due to a significant improvement in their mental condition.

The therapist provides a service with some practice that hopefully leads to some goal, but without excessive professional and emotional investment in the outcome of therapy. After the 50th minute of the session, however, you are on your own.