For me, therapy provides a place where I can relate to another human being in a honest, enjoyable way. I don't enjoy my interactions with most people in RL. I'm fake-nice and fake-friendly, relying on fake emotions to make me appear human. All the fakery has made it hard for me to see who I am.

Therapy has given me a safe place to learn who I am, why I am the way I am (so I can stop self-hating), and how I can use my strengths to cope with my weaknesses. It has taught me that even though this world doesn't seem real to me half the time (and I don't want it to be real the other half of the time), that doesn't mean I have to be a passive observer waiting to die.