Who is in therapy, who enjoys it?

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Thought I should add...

My reasons for seeing therapists were solely about my un-titled gender issues, sexuality issues, and not being able to focus/remember... the ADD/HD stuff.

I've never abused anyone other than myself and other than those things listed above... I'm a pretty normal guy!

I just wanted to be clear about that in case there could possibly be any women here who might EVER want to know me better...HEY.. quite laughing!
It could happen!

Therapy works if you let it.
I was really unhappy to leave California, where I had a good therapist. Now I have none. I used to go in there and tell her all my troubles, and the most valuable thing she ever did was listen. The value of listening is vastly underrated.

My new shrink listens...my old one didn't.

I think i need to talk to someone in real life about my problems insead of muling over them

What's helped me be so open is that the two ladies I currently see have very good skills.
I do not feel like I'm seeing someone because I'm broken, nor do I feel like I'm just another number in their book who shows up to run the meter for 50 minutes.
I see it as having someone who seems truly interested in what I say, isn't just a 'Yes' person, but also keeps me in check when I may be wrong about something.
They really leave it up to me to figure things out... they just give me a little prodding every now-and-then... hmmm, and those cattle prods sure hurt

Having distress such that I feel need for therapy is no fun-but I do have good relationship with my current counselors. Wasn't always so in past-have had people that I totally clashed with, personality & perpective-wise. Also, my dx is recent (few yrs. ago), so the therapy I had before then came at things from mistaken/off-base assumptions/interpretations (both from self & the professonal-I didn't know of AS at all 'til I was told I had it).
Therapy, in my mind, is like art (and art can be therapy, too)-it is what you say it is, as each individual defines it for his/her own needs & wants. My cat provides therapeutic companionship & pleasant distraction. My boyfriend is a therapeutic influence/presence in my life in numerous ways. Getting online & perusing this or that dx forum can also be therapeutic, though there are bothersome aspects to doing that. Reading a nifty new book is solitary therapy for me, too.
One can strictly define therapy as this or that, but there are plenty of things that can have therapeutic effects without qualifying as "clinical" therapy. Not knocking clinical therapy, either-I try to get most/best from available resources, wherever I find them.

I went to Therapy once with the rest of my family, I'm not exactly sure what it's about because I was never told outright as far as I can remember, but I believe it was a family thing because I had a lot of trouble with my immediate relatives (And still do), although it was much more physical then.

I've seen four or five and none of them helped me. They just put little ideas into my head that would have gotten there eventually anyway.

I've not been at all comfortable with any of them. Actually, I hated all of them.

I enjoy coming here for my thearapy, each day.