The worst experience I ever had with therapy was when I was supposed to see some psychiatrist once a week, and it was required for a few months, but he didn't answer with anything when I asked what I was supposed to talk about, except more or less that it was up to me. So I started just not saying anything and sitting there watching the clock, for almost the whole hour many times.

There have also been times when I was in therapy every two weeks, and I would just talk about what I did during the last two weeks, mostly in order of what I did in the last two weeks. It seemed like mostly that was my way to describe how depressed I was acting, that I wasn't doing much or going very many places, compared with what I supposed might be normal for a person, and like that was my way to ask what was going on, what did that mean, what could that be diagnosed as having. The amount I wasn't doing things was at a level where I would just go and get something at the corner store sometimes, when out of food, and go to therapy, and otherwise just have some ideas to talk about, of what ideas I experienced having in the couple of weeks between therapy sessions.

Therapy gets maybe sort of better or more useful if you use it as a time to talk about what you're "feeling" during the therapy session and during significant events in your life, and asking about whether that "feeling" is normal or healthy. That depends a lot on what people mean by the word "feeling," and I think there might be a lot more variation in what the word "feeling" means for different people than most people realize. I don't just think that as I guess, rather, I sort of know that it's a wide variation, from discussing that on reddit with people, discussing it with my current therapist, and doing a lot of web searches on "feeling" and "emotion" in the past two years.