On of the most important things for therapy to work is to have an alliance between the client and the therapist. It's important to have an agreement about where you want to go.
To me it seems like you have no idea where you want to go that's more specific than "I don't want to be depressed."
While I'm not very sure that a therapist can or would be sufficiently subtle or insidious to modify me in a direction of which I do not approve, I'm worried that this is a possibility or that it is required in order to get any positive effects out of it.
To get positive effects you indeed have to allow change. On the other hand everybody has the right to suffer as much as the want. You are allowed to have "being happy" not on top of your list of priorities.
To me it seems like you have no idea where you want to go that's more specific than "I don't want to be depressed."
Well, yes, basically. I said as much to my psychotherapist as well.
To get positive effects you indeed have to allow change.
My question is, change in what? There's little I can change about my beliefs that would improve my mood, aside from becoming implausibly optimistic about my future. Change in baseline happiness? For one, that seems genetically determined; for another, when I don't get my heart broken I'm in a stable, conte...
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