And sometimes you take a break for awhile. I took a 15 year break last time. Each time I've been in therapy, my issues have been a little different. We go through phases in our lives that bring up different things. When I was in college, I was really from disclosure of abuse as a teenager and flashbacks. Lots of immediate family issues to deal with. When I was around 30, it was disclosure of a different, much earlier era of abuse and flashbacks dealing with it. This time around it's been more, marital issues, autonomy issues, communication issues, bipolar issues, LOTS of hospitalizations for med issues.

I kind of feel like once I make it through this set of issues, I should really be able to stand on my own two feet and move on with life. I'll always have the bipolar problems to deal with with a pdoc, but hopefully the therapy will be much less frequent, if at all. My t's goal has been for me to reach that autonomy and be able to move on, and I think I'm just about there. I'm really wanting to move forward.