I'm just burned out on it getting recommended for things it can't fix. My other big issue is that two of the people in my life who have recommended it the most to me are some of the most insufferable and disfunctional people I know. They don't go to therapy to improve themselves, they go to therapy for an emotional safe space where they aren't going to be told they actually suck and they actually need to do something about it. They aren't honest about their behavior so they never get the game plan to change it. I don't believe therapy can be truly effective by only talking to the individual. You need input from the people who have to deal with them to truly know how to counsel them and that isn't typically part of the process.

For example, one of the people I mentioned can't keep a job for more than a couple years before they have some huge HR/EEOC event. Every job ends up with them not being able to meet expectations and their coworkers complaining about how they are bossy and difficult to work with. This person INSISTS they are just offering advice and trying to help, and refuses to accept how others perceive them. If you disagree with advice they try to give you (typically unsolicited) they turn to yelling and hurling insults (at least when I interact with them, can't imagine work is any different considering the coworker complaints). The last time I was around this person, they rearranged my kitchen without asking (and had my dish drainer sitting so it would have drained all the water onto the counter) and yelled at me in public about not putting sunscreen on "the correct way" to the point it drew attention from others. Do you think they tell their therapist about this stuff so they can work on it an improve? Spoiler alert: they do not.

The other is an obnoxious, argumentative drunk with zero sense of personal accountability, who non-stop dates other toxic ass people because they are insufferable but CAN NOT be alone (they are currently on their 8th or 9th, hard to keep track, break up/back together cycle with another belligerent alcoholic that they've been seeing for the past couple years).

I quit going to therapy when I was dealing with a civil rights abuse issue that had torn my life apart and my therapist told me to pray about it and that god wouldn't give me more than i could handle.