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Originally Posted by BudFox
I think the "therapy is not for everyone" notion is often used as a convenient rationalization for negative outcomes. It's a way to blame the client without blaming the client. And it's usually packaged with suggestions about the client not working hard enough, or trusting enough, or believing.
I'm with the OP -- training in psych and behavioral theory does not automatically translate to anything of value clinically or to any sort of ability to help another human being. And yet the profession depends on this conflation to sell it's product.
Like Misbella, it was only after diving in to some of the literature and online content that I could see any of this.
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Budfox, you need to mentally label your therapy as what it was, horrible. Being fired for admitting feelings is about the worst "therapy" I can imagine.
I think therapy is not for everyone, it's only for people who like/ want to do it. Not everyone wants to cozy up to a stranger and open up about their deepest fears. My husband hates the idea of a stranger massaging him, but I love it. I don't try to push massage therapy on him. I think therapists are similar.