I’ve got family members that have gone to mental health therapy long term. It’s all crap. Useless, unmitigated crap. It is a scam profession. A person is much better served by exercising, talking to family for support and reading the Bible. Much
Heck. You be happier if you got a motorcycle and rode around. You chances of dying are lower. Psychoanalysis has massive suicide numbers. The APA doesn’t like to talk about that. Plus it makes you crazy. You need only look at Hollywood women to see how shrinks screw them up.
Then after years of pointless chatter the next step is drugs. Homicide and suicide often follow. You see therapists at your own risk.
My mother talked to those frauds for years and got more and more nuts. Then somehow she decided to pick up a Bible again. Then went back to Church. She became much calmer and started enjoying life again before she died.