To me, the biggest disappointment with therapy is how much it costs even with insurance and how long it generally takes to see results.

I've read stories about many people who endure significant trauma in their life spending years or even decades seeing therapists before they start to get better.

Let's do the math: let's say that you are responsible for a $100 copay and you see a therapist for one hour every week. If you see that same therapist for 10 years, than that is roughly $48,000 dollars and 480 hours of your life that you will never get back. Come now, do they really expect me to spend that amount of time and money on a therapist that isn't guaranteed to help me? That is like going to the casino every weekend hoping to win that big million dollar jackpot.

I would rather take that money and read self help books, join meditation and yoga classes, up the quality of my diet and add a bunch of supplements to treat my own issues while saving money and time than deal with a therapist.

I only see a therapist now because one is provided by my school for free. The moment that I have to start paying money for sessions is the moment that I stop going. Of course this could change if this free student therapist proves beneficial but I don't see that happening significantly enough for therapy to be worth the cost to me.