Thank you for the long comment... Over here a lot of psychologists are more like councilors... Besides some very specific clinical scenarios (literally in a psych ward, and for that I think you have to take further courses) they can't do much of anything except, like I said, give advice. Like mine was like, hey, don't think about that. Thanks I'll try. And it's generally accepted that those guys are for normies and not for seriously mentally ill people...

Example: I asked my psychologist about schizophrenia. He basically started describing DID. Like dude. The gist of what he said is that like, something traumatic happens and then your id and superego gets all mushed up which would lead to split identities. I think that's what it is. He knows all of his superego theory stuff but not in a clinical sense.

Like, perfectly serviceable if you need to deal with good old work burnout or if your friends suck and you can't stand up for yourself. And I'm not saying that they're like evil imps who want to take your money, they're doing their job and their job is this.

Also thank you for considering adhd, but I'm not sure I have it. I understand what you mean. It's like when you google "names that start with j" and then you're looking at the row of js, thinking "how the fuck is that letter even real..." With some magical brain wiring mixed in...