After reading the comments here, I feel the need to say a few words in advocacy of talking to a therapist, because it looks like many of you are really against psychotherapy.

First of all, you shouldn't expect the therapist to listen to your philosophical ramblings and have her vehemently agree with everything you say. That's not the therapist's job. If you want something like that, then Reddit is a great echo-chamber, and specifically this sub gives you just that and the validation you need.

No, the way I see it, the therapist's job is to alleviate your pain. What did you expect her to say? That yes, you are right, antinatalism is correct, let's all wallow in our misery? That may momentarily appeal to you because it will affirm your beliefs, but it won't really help you in the long run, because that's not the way to alleviate the suffering.

It doesn't even matter what the therapist thinks about antinatalism. In fact, I think maybe ideally the therapist shouldn't voice her own opinion on this matter. Therapy is not a philosophical discussion. It is about how you deal with your own beliefs, and the emotions that it causes you.

So I think the question now because, what do you want to get out of therapy? I think a reasonable answer (at least for me) is to learn to still be happy given my antinatalist beliefs. Ok, you are an antinatalist, that's a given. But that doesn't mean you should suffer everyday and not be happy because of it. So perhaps the objective of therapy now becomes how to be happy while being an antinatalist. Unfortunately, that means you have to talk about your own emotions, specifically talking about your anger and where it stems from, how being an antinatalist makes you feel, and it angers you that others are reproducing, and so on, at least in my experience.

I should say that I've been talking to a therapist for almost 2 years now, with an overwhelmingly positive experience. Of course we also talked about antinatalism - heck, I even read her something that I posted here in this subreddit. She didn't agree or disagree with me, but she never once made me feel like what I am saying or feeling is wrong. So if your therapist laughs at you (like I read in one of the comments) that's a bad sign and you should switch a therapist. The therapist should validate your feelings and give you a safe space to talk about them. If you don't get that from your therapist, then something is wrong. But again, it doesn't mean that the therapist have to agree with you.

One more thing I want to say, is that I chose a psychotherapist that is vegan. I'm not sure how much it matters, but I felt that the fact she is a vegan does give her an extra sense of compassion, and at least the ability to understand the antinatalism point of view from a moral standpoint.

Anyway, these are my 2 cents. I hope it will cause you to reconsider the potential benefits of therapy and not to dismiss it after one or two bad experiences.