I feel like when therapists say that, it is partly because they don't know anything better to say and while it doesn't help, it is the lesser of multiple evils (and platitudes) that I normally experience. Also, I'm speaking from my previous therapist experiences over the course of my life with the most recent being more than 2 years ago.
Therapy is the most useless shit in the world. I honestly don't see how it even helps the people that it helps. They just give you platitudes and let you rant at them. If that makes you feel better, good for you, but I really don't see the point.
Exactly, this is why I don't see them anymore. They offer nothing of use to me and while I'm not knocking on anyone who may find them helpful, it's just that it's overrated and touted as the go to solution for many of life's problems. For someone like me, who is a deep thinker, logical thinker, and have my own wants and needs, therapy (along with many of their platitudes, idealistic, convenient lies) simply cannot help me and may even hurt me (the risk of saying the wrong thing and getting probed, questioned via a risk/threat assessment, and worst case getting involuntarily committed, sent to a (temporary) psych hold. There is simply just nothing positive coming out for me.
