Great thread ;D

For me it has been:

Stage 1: Start therapy. Get confused and annoyed because I don't know what's going on.
Stage 2: Observe that therapist powers down like a robot at the end of each session and offers the most banal of solutions to what might seem like superficial issues, but are actually much deeper rooted problems. Become hugely frustrated and hurt because I am paying through the nose for someone to not understand me at all.
Stage 3: Tell everyone who will listen that therapy sucks and is a scam and is awful.
Stage 4: Leave therapist. Find new one.
Stage 5: Find new therapist quite different, much warmer, much more interested in deeper causes than quick fixes.
Stage 6: Do therapy with new therapist. Therapy is hard, and hurts a lot sometimes, but I feel like he cares and I feel supported and I feel that maybe I will be better off for this.
Stage 7: To be seen...