(May 28, 2015 at 8:27 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Also, the quality of the therapist varies greatly, and quite frankly, some of them are entirely useless. It's quite possible that if a person isn't benefitting from therapy that the problem lies with the therapist, not the therapy itself.
There's a lot of truth to this. My first therapist this go around insisted that I was, in fact, not bipolar, despite having a diagnosis from a psychiatrist in the same office, and his recommendation for me was to watch some funny movies.
Yeah, I fired him after two sessions.