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Re:Ask HN: How did you fix your narcissism? by papichulo4 on Thursday February 06, 2020 @09:46PM (#22262800)
It's already hard mustering up the courage and desire to go to therapy. Then I spend hours filling out forms, making cold-calls, completely blind -- reading Yelp reviews on therapists, man. Then I don't get callbacks and am told doctors aren't taking new patients. OK.

But everyone is happy recommending therapy. Oooh, it's sooo great! Yeah. Only if I could find some.

I'm assuming therapists designed their funnel this way, somehow, there's something about me that puts me in this category of people that can't get over the initial barrier of finding them.

Re:Ask HN: How did you fix your narcissism? by fossuser on Thursday February 06, 2020 @10:55PM (#22263091)
This largely matches my experience too - I can’t really imagine how anyone actually having a tough time could make it through the necessary hoops to get help.
Re:Ask HN: How did you fix your narcissism? by lrvick on Friday February 07, 2020 @02:06AM (#22263830)
This 100%.

I feel the stupidly stressful process of trying to find a therapist itself has increased my need for therapy.