Are there people where therapy just doesn’t work at all for them?
I feel like this is how it is for me. I tried tons of different things. I’ve lost count of how many different therapists I’ve seen but it’s at least 10. I tried different methods, different providers when I felt like there wasn’t a good fit. After all of that, nothing felt helpful. I feel like it always ended up the same where after a while I would just dread going to appointments and in some cases I skipped them (unintentionally) because the stress and negative feelings were just too much.
In a lot of respects, I feel worse than when I started. Not just because the issues that initially made me start therapy got worse, but also because I feel much less hopeful about them ever getting any better. Is it possible that therapy just doesn’t work for me? To be honest, a lot of the time just seemed to be empty platitudes and trying to convince me out of deeply held beliefs. If it is the case that it doesn’t work for me then what other options do I have? I think I’m all out of ideas and I don’t know what to do.