if you are a moron and rich then yes it can be worth it
if you are poor not worth it
if you are smart won't help at all
most people, and particularly smart people, are much much more helped by cognitive behavioral therapy, which is basically something that tries to make you stop doing things you already know you shouldnt be doing, and/or start doing things you already know you should be doing, with a smack-you-over-the-head style approach
most people's unhappiness is not caused by not knowing why they are the way they are, it's cause by bad habits that they are too unmotivated in the short term to break
psychiatrists are an enormous racket
I actually wish I had gone into that myself
its like "ok let me get this straight.....all i have to do is sit there and listen to complete nutjobs tell me about all the fucked up sh*t they do......my job is to "help them" in any way I feel like, but there's no objective measure of whether I'm doing it or not, and no one standing over me monitoring anything I do, I can do whatever I want and there are no consequences at all attached to anything I do......and I get paid 6 figures for that????"
damn i should have gone into that field
and i am sure even doing a half assed job i would have wound up actually helping way more people than are usually helped by it
