i needed both. i needed someone to talk to about the fucked up shit i needed to talk about, and i also needed the pills. now i don't need the pills anymore (or at least, I'm tricking myself and my doctor into thinking i don't need them anymore) and probably don't need to talk about the shit anymore too.

While undeniably psychology as a field is got some gigantic lingering issues, like one of the worse reproducibility crisis for published papers and the fact they somehow accept outdated ideas (like Freudian psychoanalysis) as just a valid "parallel approach" which does indeed make patients at risk of just throwing money away, there are evidence based therapy options and, for several disorders, therapy is actually the gold standard for treatment.

Some have no pharmacological option, and some have drugs that seem to only work reliably when accompanied by therapy. This doesn't change the valid criticism the field deserves, but we can't write off therapy as a whole.