This implies that the therapist should be giving advice and telling us what to do? Many people here say they don't want that. What is therapy good for? What is supposed to happen there?

I don't get the "blame the client" mentality either. The therapist is the one who gets paid for whatever the client wants or needs, right? I don't know. LOL. It all seems like a bunch of crap to me.

I honestly don't know how I failed in therapy. I only missed a couple of appointments over seven years due to bad weather. I paid on time every time. I did what he asked. Read every book he suggested. Took medications he told me he wanted me to take or he wouldn't work with me. I did any homework he wanted me to do. I respected his boundaries and didn't call too much. I went into the hospital all of the times he suggested except the last time (because he said they did ECT there and they didn't. Liar.) Two things I wouldn't do were go to church and bring my husband to therapy. I think it was inappropriate of him to ask me to do those things, but what do I know. I'm just the dumb, failure of a client. Ugh. I hate this.