I bet they are used to "failing." I would just guess that they mostly have failures, and only a few true success cases. I suppose the degree of "failure" is probably relevant... but what I mean is I doubt the average person goes in and continues with therapy until a healthy termination. I bet most by in large quit very early on, and some the T terminates later on or they get frustrated with the process and quit, and then only a very few stick around for any kind of duration.

Of course maybe we aren't the typical kind of client either? Who knows, maybe a lot of people come in with short term kind of problems to fix? All I know is I've seen maybe 8-10therapists, and around 7 of them were for one visit only before I "quit" and then 1 was for a couple months, and 1 was for 4 months, and then my current one for 2 years. So you could say I've left 9 "failed" therapists in my wake in some respects because I'm still depressed, and that I have 1 in progress now. I doubt any of those 9 feel like failures. The two I saw more than once did help me a bit.