[bnralt]

It’s implying that this is the case for many people, not all. Which it is, in my experience. Particularly since the advice you gave:

> then you should get another therapist

Seems to be fairly ubiquitous. “Find a therapist you like”/“shop around”/etc. leads a lot of people to find people who will tell them what they want to hear. Sometimes what people want to hear is how to practice CBT - but in that case, such people are probably going to be using AI to work on CBT.

[helboi4]

Yeah I have found there is very little you get from therapy that you can't get from a mixture of journalling, learning CBT methods, having a routine (which includes regular exercise) and trying lots of different methods of making friends that you assess maturely for their reliability. Maybe meditation if you're into that. All of these things are free and require effort, personal effort and intention being what will actually improve your life anyway, whether you use therapy or not. This makes therapy seem like a scam for anything other than dealing with a very dire short period of isolation.