Remeber we are assuming I’m 5 year old kid so you can’t judge me for being stupid or ignorant.
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Therapy requires that you yourself are looking to solve the issues that are causing you anguish, or at least the parts of them that you can alter or influence. Your therapist should not just reply with “damn, that’s awful.” A good therapist will challenge your assertions and you should try your best to be receptive to their feedback or offer more detail if you feel misunderstood.
A lot of people balk at the first sign of their therapist pushing back. People really think they’re just gonna walk into a room and have someone validate all their feelings and tell them they’re right to feel all this anguish because of what they’ve been through. Sometimes, that is the case and the therapist is right to do that, and other times they’ll try and get the patient to see how they’re compounding their pain themselves.
Therapy is not a silver bullet for one’s mental health and it can take years before the lessons taken from therapy calcify into habits/instincts.
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