It must be a frustrating world out there for a therapist. First, they have to deal with people all the time, which must be pretty tiresome. Then there’s the fact that we’ve all taken to Google to diagnose ourselves and those around us, despite our woeful lack of qualifications to do so (although all of our exes definitely are sociopaths). And if all that wasn’t enough, now some of us are apparently using chatbots as a form of free therapy. Like doctors watching the masses perform open-heart surgeries on themselves by way of YouTube tutorials, one can only imagine the range of small horrors that mental health experts must encounter on a daily basis. So I set out to ask the therapists of the world, what’s bothering them these days, and what, exactly, do we do that drives them up the wall and round the bend?
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