Thanks for your long post. For me I’m not going through therapy again because for one thing it is extremely time consuming, and expensive and there is no guarantee that I will not get screwed up again by either good therapy from a well intentioned therapist or bad therapy from an incompetent or mean therapist.

I wish I could try it again I really do; I was so bashed in emotionally by the last two I just can’t any more. I just won’t risk it, I’m too fragile now and they say to “shop around” and talk to several therapists until you find one you like but that “shopping” costs hundreds of dollars and sometimes months. I used to think social workers/psychotherapists were great until one destroyed my mental health using Couples Counseling by Proxy on me, an experimental form of therapy. It totally ripped me into shreds and I’m not good for much anything any more.

Although I’m thinking about trying out a prescription from an MD and forgo all the psychotherapy stuff. That I might be able to handle.