Does anyone ever get the feeling that therapy kind of breaks down what I strongly suspect one's therapist would call 'defences' and makes you aware of a whole lot of pain, and then (because that cannot feasibly be dealt with in one hour) just sends you out into the world to be crazy for a week?

I'm finding therapy to be quite a disruptive influence, because one hour is not even remotely close enough time to really have any kind of a conversation, or really resolve anything at all, and more often than not what happens is I end up emotionally wrecked by the time the hour comes around and then I just have to leave.

And then what? You're just supposed to go back to your everyday activities while it feels like you're in agony?

It bothers me how there's supposed to be this 'team' element in therapy between client and therapist, but the therapist gets to basically spend one hour, keep their sense of self entirely intact, while you get taken apart like some kind of badly made lego toy and left to limp home at the end of it :/