#one therapist said I'll never get better and so I'd better spend my time deriving pleasure from money and success

[dumpster-fire-deluxe]

My friend is having such a smooth time with her current psychiatrist and she's trying to encourage me to give that one a shot too, but how do I explain to her that therapy always follows one of two scenarios for me

SCENARIO A:

Me: lies and downplays my issues, leading to me only working on surface-level problems

-> super unhelpful

SCENARIO B:

Me: is honest

Therapist: this is too much for me, you need a high-caliber psychiatrist, this sounds like a personality disorder

High-caliber psychiatrist: I only diagnose and treat patients who are in truly deep shit. So unless you get charged with felonies or abuse, I can't help you. You may be controlling and ethically interesting now and then, but you're not breaking any laws, so it's not severe enough. It's probably all just autism anyway.

-> gets kicked out of the mental health system, with another "suspected personality disorder, requires further testing" note floating fruitlessly in my file, and zero progress in feeling better