Most of the relationships i've had with healthcare practitioners have been freakishly dysfunctional and infantilizing. None more so than with therapists, or anyone attempting to dispense mental-emotional-spiritual health.

At this point i would never expect interactions with people like therapists, physicians, psychiatrists to be satisfying or healthy.

And "working through" problems in such relationships now strikes me as pointless as digging a hole in the ground and then struggling in the hot sun to fill it back up.