Seven years of therapy?

Some problems are not solvable but therapy/counselling offer the opportunity to talk things out with a disinterested person - not family, not friends, not neighbours and not with someone who comes up with a “solution”.
As a nation we have for a long time believed in the stiff upper lip, “keep buggering on” , not wearing our heart on our sleeve, there are any number of cliches.
In Catholic countries, confession and absolution has been known to provide an opportunity to offload and for many people this is helpful.
The appalling statistics of suicide among young men who are not able to open up to anybody speak for themselves.
Counselling may not work for everybody, it certainly won’t make a problem like bereavement go away, but if it helps to cope with it, that has to be good.

There are so many different types. For some issues there may need to be years or of undoing layers of problems. For others there may just need to be support in helpful to park a thought.

Trauma often needs a different approach than other concerns.

I think there is some research that suggests that just talking about a problem for years isn't all that helpful in some cases.

That's why things like CBT and EMDR are gaining popularity.

They deal with issues in a different way.

Oh goodness, what a question, and how can you really know if you’ve never had it?

I’m certain it has its place, and without doubt it does a lot of good for lots of people.

For me personally? I don’t think I’d be very good at talking about myself, certainly not week in, week out.

But as they say, I suppose it’s a case of whatever gets you through the night.