Psychiatry & psychology proving once again its not a medical science or even a science but a form of voodoo more akin to a religion or failed ideology!
That is no joke. The couple of times that I’ve ever talked to a psychologist (for free, job stress about 12 years ago), it was a complete waste of time. Nothing but an expensive shoulder to cry on, which I didn’t need. If my company hadn’t paid for it, I would’ve chewed some butt starting with, “What did I just pay for?!” But it was all good in the end, it drove me to go solve my own problem.
Later on, I had a co-worker go to a psychologist for the same thing and come away saying, “I made your car payment for a year while you sat there like a bump on a log, what the hell did you do for me?” I learned something else, too. Don’t threaten to sue a licensed professional, they have zero fear of that, they know that 99% of the time a person will back off when they see how much it will cost them, and it will go nowhere unless you can prove actual damages. Zero results are not good enough, the courts will treat you like a disgruntled diner (”Don’t like the hamburger they cooked for you? Then don’t go back there for another hamburger.”) The way you put them in line is to go after their license. The threat of turning their diploma into a $200,000 wall decoration is the great motivator for them to make it right.
I discovered this in my psych classes in college. Such and such is a disorder today, but next week the APA declares it to be normal. And next year it's preferable. Etc.
They're all quacks with no legitimacy whatsoever. Statistically, they have around a 5% success rate. One has an equivalent rate of success by mere chance.
And the "practice" and methodology of those quacks today is purely for the purpose of keeping the client coming back for expensive sessions. Boring people paying for the privilege of someone pretending to be interested.