From my experience, I have found that therapy is only as useful as the work you are willing to put into it. If you have trouble opening up, interacting with peo

From my experience, I have found that therapy is only as useful as the work you are willing to put into it. If you have trouble opening up, interacting with people in general or committing to changing yourself, your ultimate goals with therapy will become vague, and without well-defined goals the entire system falls apart. I don't know what to feel when people around me say I ought to talk to a therapist, leaving it as the only possible option for my mental salvation or outright refusing to listen to me about certain topics by saying the therapist needs to hear it, not them, only for the therapist to say they don't know how to help me. That is because I went just because someone told me to, because they did not want to listen to me, so I'm not motivated enough to get the most out of each session. I started going with the intention of receiving CBT and I'm not sure if what we do can even be called that anymore after all this time. About the only reason I see my therapist each week is to have one person who is willing to listen to me in person instead of zero, and nothing particularly changes as a result. If seeing someone in person each week who is actually willing to listen is all that prevents me from becoming depressed, then it is a net positive result, but it is not life-changing in any real regard because of my lack of motivation or inability to properly utilize therapy.