What is the most useless thing the therapist you hire has done?

Several times like when I was 16 I told the doctor I was invincible and couldn't die he asked if I needed to go to the hospital?odd I thought because I figured hospitals were for people who wanted death another time one of my disorders which causes me to lose mobility flared up at partial hospitalization and one staff asked me why aren't double in the room and I explained I had conversion disorder and what it was and he said well unconvert it. Z (trigger ) Finally I had a psychiatrist before I switched to the current one after attempting he said you must not have been trying to kill yourself cause pills don't kill you and the Grand finale a psychiatrist at the hospital told me I was selfish and didn't care about anyone but myself not to long I was standing on a counter he told me to jump while even attempting to force me off

My God I can relate to this,I spent my 20's working at an animal sanctuary in some of Scotland's most beautiful scenery.
Now I live in a capital city...
To hear the words..."why don't you go for a walk." Can just about give me an embolism .

Lines that can make me apoplectic..."to be honest..."

Nothing. I've been able to put to good use all the work my therapist and I have done in 7 years of therapy. Sure, some things were irritating, hurtful, or even harmful on a few occasions - but never useless, because eventually I learned something from all of that about myself, therapy, and maybe once in a while even made a change for the better even when I didn't like or approve of certain things he was doing.

Saying thank you for telling me about ___ today. Like I did it for her? It's just a way of her ending the session, anyway-the only time she says that is when she wants to wrap up a session.

Not my current therapist but the one I saw for the past year and a half. I have an eating disorder, and I can't remember how it came up, but one session she told me about her own diet and weight loss plan. She was doing it in a healthy way, but it was still very difficult to hear... and made my ED thoughts worse.

This thread got me facepalming so hard, I am sorry for you all, & I hope some of you got better therapists! :/

My T is usually on the mark, (though sometimes she rambles, but usually catches herself), but when she brought up mindfulness or spirituality, I rolled my eyes at her and was like "Uh, no." I will say, she hasn't brought it up since, so I guess it isn't so useless, as she realized it isn't for me.

Sits there and offers no help or advice, expects me to do all the taking. To me she isn't earning her pay. When she does say something it sounds insincere. I understand she is young but geez.

I don't know where this fits in, he said to try making my own hot chocolate with cacao powder and stevia. It was disgusting! We had a good laugh about that.

Okay, now i can answer. The t who told me about Nutella, like i need to find MORE empty calories in my life.

Also, the t who kept asking me what the payoff was. The answer was too painful for me, but mostly it was like TOO obvious? So now i tell my t i need help articulating the obvious answers, otherwise i will go looking for more complicated answers, and they are not right. So we usually both know what the easy obvious answer is, so if he will just SAY it, i will agree with him, with great relief.