I agree with your broader point that therapy is worth a shot if it's affordable, but your experience is not expertise. It's great that you found a strategy that worked for your particular mental health journey. But that's familiarity with your own issues, not anyone else's. Your traumas and treatments don't make you a mental health professional any more than your cancer makes you an oncologist. Assuming everyone can do what you've done despite radically different backgrounds and experiences is irresponsible. Stories like yours are the exact kind of narratives that I had thrown at me in the past, and they were a major barrier to actually starting to see someone, because you don't need a big trauma or story to be depressed, but most of what people broadcast are those stories, which can make the people without them feel like they haven't suffered enough to get their help.

Lots of people are going to withdraw when help is suggested, and it's frustrating, but this isn't the way to respond to that.

It also might be worth mentioning, back on the original point of the post, that Woolie's advice is the polar opposite of what my mental health professional is suggesting, so generalizing people who are being skeptical as just performatively self-deprecating is just not a good take.