I'm not saying people don't need help, just that if you're paying 1-2 hundred a week for some mindfulness and cookie-cutter narratives about life, your being scammed. It took me 10 years to wake up. I was very vulnerable when I went to therapy, and I didn't think critical about it for a long time - hell they told me circuital thinking would make therapy ineffective because I would be resistant.

I'm not okay, but I'm learning to deal on my own, instead of rely on MH pros who made me feel like diseased leaper, a dumb child, or a freak. Positivity and CBT felt like a cult. Honestly I think it made me weaker and more reliant on services that don't seem designed to help.