Thanks, BayBrony and Xynesthsia. I appreciate your points of view. But I feel somewhat dismissed by your comments and think it likely that you don't understand how limited I was to make decisions for "myself" in any way other than a rational decision-making process based on a cognitive analysis of what I "should" want or "should" do.

From that standpoint, I continue to believe that the psychotherapy literature and practice tends to mislead people who have lost, or never had, the intuition to "know better". And as part of the "helping professions", to whom desperate people sometimes turn, they have a responsibility to do better. Not that they will, necessarily, and then people are just s-o-l.

Hence this thread. Feeling scammed or s-o-l sucks, but better that than the denial.