Isn't that reversing cause and effect? In the '90s I heard a psychiatrist talk like this and it scared the #(#$\*$ out of me. This was during the time that the anti-depressant Prozac had reached Taylor Swift levels of popularity, including a book out that argued that EVERYONE should take it, called "Better Than OK". He said that he really didn't want to talk about your problems. You might think you're depressed because you, say, lost your job and your wife left you, but you lost your job and your wife left you because you're depressed. Hence, whatever you think you're coming to him for, he's going to prescribe Prozac anyway. So you might as well just come to him and he'll write you out a Prozac prescription right away and skip all the therapy. And that, as a guy I knew from the Oregon wilderness used to say, is "Bass-ackwards"! I know of someone else who said that she went to a psychiatrist because of her depression regarding her stuttering. The psychiatrist told her, "If you can talk about something, it's not your problem". He then asked her about her mother. She said her relationship with her mother had its ups and downs, as do most people's. The psychiatrist then proceeded to discuss her mother with her during their sessions for the next NINE MONTHS rather than the stuttering which was her real problem. Billed her for it too of course. Eventually she had the good sense to drop this nutcase and begin doing the real work to deal with her internalized feelings regarding her stuttering. OP needs to learn to deal with life as we find it and not as we wish it would be and to not define themselves by their limitations.