Quote (xBx @ Apr 18 2023 03:05pm)
what are they aside from the cost?
A bad therapist can shut down your healing process instead of helping it along. Bad therapy can even be destructive, either re-traumatizing you or causing new psychological harm. The bad news is that something as well-intentioned as going to therapy can backfire.
What is common is treatment failure. Possible emergence of new symptoms, suicidality, occupational problems or stigmatization, changes in the social network or strains in relationships, therapy dependence, or undermining of self‐efficacy.
A lot of people struggle with therapy dependence and not being able to think/solve issues for themselves, which is a massive problem. There are methodological issues due to poor treatment approaches. Therapy needs to be specific to each person’s struggle, and it oftentimes isn't.
Plenty of more reasons, there are a lot of people who are against therapy, because therapists are scammers, lol.