Seeing the right kind of therapist takes patience. In 4 years, I've gone thorough 3 therapists. I'm very comfortable being honest and open with the therapist. (My experience) with therapists is that they don't understand how OCD and addiction disorders affect the brain. They have a hard time giving any advice to someone like me who is happy, but suffers from OCD and addictions.

The therapists I've seen always assume that only depressed people drink and do drugs. Not everyone who is addicted to something is depressed. Actually, I don't drink or even gamble when I'm unhappy. I only tend to drink and gamble when I'm happy. They have a hard time understanding that.