I don't know.

To me, therapy also does depend on the condition. The therapy I do because I have autism is different than it is for depression. The former therapy for sure is about conforming. If I don't do this, then this may make be not have friends, being able to get a job, and live how "normal" people live. It's to teach me what is and isn't appropriate and to change my thinking into how "normal" people think. I think very literally. I am apparently not suppose to think very literally since most people don't.

My therapy for MDD, on the other hand, is so I can function better too, but also so I can cope with myself. If I didn't do therapy for autism, I would still be fine with myself. But if I don't have therapy for depression, I can't deal with myself. I have a lot of self hatred. I just want to do nothing all day. But when I am not depressed, I am relatively fine with myself. I still have good and bad days (just how "normal" people are suppose to), just not as many bad days as I do when I am in a depressive episode.

Some aspects, sure, may be to conform to society's standards of getting/having friends, having a relationship with someone to eventually marry them and have sexual relations with, getting a job or career, and live without relying on someone else to pay for myself. But currently, this is the only system that is considered "normal". People judge abnormal people most of the time.

So, if, theoretically speaking, everyone didn't work to get money, we were just given everything for free, so people would just relax with people they care for (since this is a biological feature of humans), then maybe I wouldn't have to worry as much about therapy. But if you feel different from your own "normal" mood, if that person ever had a positive mood to begin with, then they may seek out treatment. Drugs can not change how you fully think. Sure, some people react to anti-depressants and become manic, which would change how they think. But this change is directly linked to a change in your biochemistry; your neurotransmitters that are needed in our bodies to correct send messages to brains.

I feel this issue is quite complex. I possibly can't explain everything.

For me, I want and need therapy. I want therapy because I would like to be part of society's norms of working, having relationships (both friendships and intimate), but also because I need it, or else I can not deal with myself and my own emotions.