I signed up for the therapy meme because this one place in town is offering some free consultations.
I don't have a whole lot of faith in that whole system but I spend every day in a sad/angry malaise and I don't know how to connect to others. I don't know why I'm like this and I feel like I'm circling the drain. Other parts of my life are materially not so well also but I'm losing hope in being able to even keep myself mentally afloat without some kind of help that I'm not getting from anyone or anything in my life currently.
Have any of you actually had positive experiences with counselling at any point?

i went to the rapy and it was just a bunch of bloviating with a fat bill at the end

>>81628524
Yeah the price per 50 minute session is like $250 here. It might be covered by some kind of insurance I have but I don't know. This combined with the whole "you have to try a few counsellors to see who works for you" just makes me think that it's a bit of a racket.
What happened during your session(s)?

>>81628508 (OP)
To go group therapy so you can hang out with women like DBDR.

>>81628508 (OP)
I mean just look at how they even prescribe shit. Every other "doctor" has his own fucking opinion but at the end they just throw shit at you and wait a few weeks to see if does anything. What other doctor does that kind of shit? Imagine going to an endocrinologist and he just spins a roulette and gives you what it landed on.

>>81628639
I'm too nervous for that at this point.
>>81628650
I know, I know. The whole field seems compromised and dishonest. I don't want to be on some kind of brain pill and will refuse to take them but I'm just running out of options. I'm alone all the time, even when I'm around other people. I've never managed to open up to anyone I thought was a friend without them getting uncomfortable and distancing themselves from me. I can't even talk to my own mother, she doesn't try to relate and will either respond with "well anon I don't get it because I just don't think like that" or will blame my depression on genes from my dad.
I don't remember the last time I had anyone in my life ever even try to understand how I've felt about life or any loss, failure or trauma I've experienced. I'm just met with minimization or dismissal and I'm so unbelievably lonely I don't know what else to do other than pay someone to listen to me.

>>81628508 (OP)
They can only advice those who don't know where to start with themselves. Also, if your problems come from (you) instead of your environment (family, career, etc) then it'll be a lot trickier or even impossible to solve in which they'll attempt to sell you some pathetic cope as to placate you. So that you can somehow stop what is in essence a boulder that is rolling down hill