Funny I was just talking about that with someone a couple days ago. I was reading something on a website similar to Yelp and wondered how much I could base my decision to try a new business off of reading the reviews, for exactly the same reason. The several happy customers, success stories, etc. often don't bother to post reviews.

Another lesson I've been learning the hard way is to avoid people and threads that have this stuff going on:


Because then I always feel more depressed and tend to want to immediately quit therapy and never look back!