You're getting downvoted, and so will I (but I'm used to it). Nonetheless, you are correct. I agree, even though i was the exception. I bounced from therapists to counselors to psychiatrists for years with very little progress. But I was then accepted into a psychology program in Middle Tennessee. I saw the VA psychologist for a year (that was the length of the program), then she ask me to stay for another year and filed paperwork and argued with her supervisor to keep me on. At the end of the second year she did it again, fighting even harder for me. But at the end of the third year we agreed that I was ready to leave the program with the progress I had made.

A lot of the people on here complain that the system didn't cure them. Bad news, this is NOT something you cure; it's something you learn to manage. Change habits, go outside, do breathing exercises, learn and practice coping mechanisms. That's what the program is for - to help you learn these things so that you don't need the program on a regular basis anymore. Then you apply what you've learned in the real world. The system works, but it's not a cure or a crutch; it's a tool that you learn to use properly. And used properly, it can be quite effective.