repharim -“No therapist is going to fix this problem for you. They are not magic pills and they actually rarely help. I know several people who have gone to therapists, not a single one of them told me anything good that came out of it other than, “maybe” it helped.”
While it’s true that therapy is No magic pill, most of the time it does help. Because it didn’t help a few of your friends means it doesn’t work on most people? Perhaps your friends don’t want it to help? You can only help people who want to change, not those who don’t.
The same thing happens in medicine. People tell you the antibiotic didn’t work. What they don’t tell you is that they stopped taking it early before the duration ended that they were supposed to take it. This is human nature -to blame the failure on something or s/o else, instead of themselves. When your dealing with Mental/emotional issues this rationalization -that it’s not them – is even more common!