I found therapy infantilizing, disempowering, degrading, pointless, humiliating.

It made me more reliant on external feedback and validation, led to emotional dependency, obsessive rumination, self-absorption, loss of perspective.

It exposed unmet needs in reckless and traumatic fashion, habituated me to a fantasy-based relationship, and in one case sent me into a spiral when it ended abruptly and stupidly.

Plus it wasted huge chunks of time and money.

This was not from bad therapy, just therapy.

If I had continued, I assume i'd have been hit with the usual stigmatizing labels and pseudo-diagnoses that can plague people for life.