Used to have a telehealth therapist that I got referred to by my GP a couple years ago, because the in-person psych office I attended once was $150/hr. Fuck that. Initially I had high hopes going into it, I was ecstatic that someone would finally listen to my trauma dumping and overall just my sob story of a life till that point.
Putting it bluntly, what I got instead was regurgitated, non-personalized """advice""" and CBT garbage, like "eat better and go outside fatass." Instead of lending an ear and listening to how I was still struggling with the emotional and psychological trauma from my teenage years, he wasted my appointments probing into my mundane day-to-day life, like how I had a minor disagreement with my father that morning, as if it was some kind of fucking social call.
Around the same time, I was being passed through a couple of different anti-depressant prescriptions, in no particular order: Bupropion, Escitalopram, Fluoxetine. None of which helped at all, shocker, and just made me even more tired. I really tried for as long as I could to try to make it work, nearly a year if I recall correctly, but I was sick of paying for what were basically overpriced sleeping pills and calls with a therapist that just kept on gettting on my nerves instead of being helpful. I still remember one of my last appointments with him, I brought up how although I wanted a relationship at the time, I had severe trust issues and that really made it difficult for me to try and connect with people. His response? To fucking stonewall me and basically tell me "that's not my problem, I can't help you with that." Asshole.
I can appreciate how meds and therapy work for some people. But for me? Never fucking again. As precarious as my current mental state it is, I'm more "fine" than I ever was with pills and CBT bullshit being forced down my throat. You want to call them coping methods? That's damn right, because it's your way to "cope" with the patient, so it seems like you're listening when in reality you don't give a fucking damn about the hurt and hell people have went through, because fuck being empathetic, right?