Im in the other side of the coin on this. here in america the way our mental health system is set up ......now..... is that treatment providers are now held accountable for a clients progress or lack there of.

what that means is a therapist has to document things like the client and therapist setting goals, reason why they are in therapy, and actively working on those goals and or making some sort of progress with working on those goals. many states now have it set up that every so many months the treatment provider and client revisit why the client is in therapy, what they want to work on (what they want to do to help get better, goal setting and so forth).

example ... my therapist and I do goal setting every 6 months to a year. we review the present goals, whether I progressed in those goal during the previous 6 months and what problem areas I see that I have now and set new goals accordingly.

if a client goes in to therapy saying they dont want to get better the natural conclusion and response a therapist now has the option of saying / asking..is whether that person is ready to leave therapy.

example if i go in to one of my therapy sessions today and say to my therapist I dont want to get better.

her job standards is to say ok you want to end therapy right thats what you are saying because therapy is for working on your problems and making your life better, if you dont want to get better what you are saying to me is that its time to end therapy.

my therapist legally and job wise can not coerce, persuade, beg or other wise convince me to work to get better, nor do any therapy work. all she can do is tell me the facts. therapy is for getting better, therapy is for talking about problems and coming up with solutions for problems so that ones life is better.

if I dont want to do the therapy work, dont want to get better Im not going to do it whether I stay in therapy or not so its a waste of insurance money, waste of my money waste of my time, the therapists time, gas/ transportation and so forth. and someone else somewhere who really does want to get better is waiting somewhere with out a therapist on some waiting list.

my point is if I ever felt I was not wanting to get better and didnt want to do therapy work of working on my problems. my therapists response would be the same as above. they would offer to stop therapy until I was ready to get back to work. with no begging, pleading or deep conversations about my not wanting to get better,

what is it they say in AA if your not ready to give up the bottle dont we are here when you are ready, we cant make you give up the bottle.

they say the same thing in NA and in mental health therapy.

if your not wanting to get better your not ready and nothing anyone can do to change that, then they say good by and see you if and when you come back.

welcome to the new mental health system of waiting lists and not alot of time to waste on convincing clients to work to get better.

my suggestion is take a break from therapy and then go back when you feel you are ready to get back to work on getting better.

I have taken many breaks in therapy over the years. it gave me the time I needed to decide important things like why did I want to be in therapy and what my therapy goals would be.