> I think he's getting frustrated and doesn't know what to do with me.

HE is frustrated so YOU should have ECT?

There is talk therapy and there is talk therapy. They are not all created equal. Unfortunately, people do not seem to distinguish between "talk therapy" where the therapist knows how to listen and those in which the therapist does not.

And as for medications... well, my opinion probably counts for very little. I'll give it, nonetheless: medications are at best a useful adjunct to a therapy which listens to why people are having problems. They might help in producing conditions where real therapy could be possible. They are not, in spite of claims to the contrary, a solution.

As you may have guessed, I have little confidence in mental health treatment as it is currently carried out in the U.S. Where does that leave someone who needs help? Pretty much up the creek, looking for that illusive help that pretty much only exists inside oneself -- as difficult and frightening as that may be.

I think there is as much help here on Psych Central, amongst the people who know from personal experience what is what, as anywhere.