I certainly burned out on therapy after lots of experience getting therapy. It felt nice. It was a source of attention that felt affirming. However, if I thought I was not changing from going to therapy and I said that - oh boy. Therapists can get awful defensive. That warm presence that felt so reassuring can do a 180 on you.

I understand that they have to believe in what they do . . . but I don't. I sure wouldn't ever want to tell that to a therapist again. I wouldn't ever want to go into one of those offices again. Maybe I just went so long, I exhausted what there was to get out of it.

I like that analogy of it being like a "dissection." And I would find that I came out agitated and needed to go somewhere for something to eat and a drink.