Interesting piece. I have never found a single therapist who helped me. I found them all simplistic and generally wrong. Several said to me that I had taught them a lot and one said that she wished her other patients were as self-aware.

All I wanted to know was why people treated me so badly and what I was doing wrong. I would give countless examples, and I would be met with silence.

Then "how did you feel about that?"

Well, f**K my feelings, I didn't consult a therapist to discuss my feelings
I wanted an explanation for other people's behaviour.

In my mid-69, it finally dawned on .E that people were self-interested, jealous, needed to be admired, etc and I was driven by a different set of values.

In the moment I realised that, I lost a lot of respect for humanity.

Now if only I hadmet a therapist half a century ago who would have explained other people to me.