I tried a lot of therapists. They were useless at best. One messed me up.

It's a shady profession. Very little transparency. Most people will have a hard time calculating risk vs benefit. I think the risk is considerable. Not just risk of serious harm, but more mundane stuff... wasting time and money, becoming subtly infantilized, becoming more self absorbed, habituating to asymmetrical relating, reliance on external authority (contrived), etc. Most people will focus on meagre benefits -- I had someone to talk to -- and miss these sorts of insidious detriments, because therapy is seen as credible and obligatory in the eyes of the masses.

I see the therapy relationship as fundamentally dysfunctional and much more suggestive of problems than solutions. I'd advise people to stay away.