Comment by mvieira38

Maybe off topic: I can't for the life of me figure out how therapy isn't a scam. CBT as proposed and studied in lab settings can't really be applied in the wild like most evidence based therapists try to, and the results of therapy I come across always seem extremely underwhelming. Maybe for some cases like severe phobias there is something to be solved, but do we really need to be paying thousands of dollars a year for a therapist to say "hey, maybe if you'd invest more in hobbies, social relationships and a healthy lifestyle you would feel better"?