I think even in the best case, the benefits of therapy are way overstated, especially for how prohibitively expensive it is. For the most part, the only people I’ve known that actually seemed to get anything positive out of therapy tended to have insignificant, eveyday kinds of problems. None were disabled, significantly marginalized by something like race or sexual orientation, and none lived in the kind of real poverty where $120 for an hourly therapy session was out of the question because it would mean choosing between that and utilities or groceries for a month.

And that brings up the other problem: that’s the best case. In reality, therapists are just as likely as people in any other field to be mentally unstable, prejudiced, or even narcissistic and predatory. Some of the absolute worst emotional abuse, gaslighting, and ableist discrimination I’ve ever experienced in my life has come from therapists that I was literally paying to subject me to abuse. Never again.