During the course of my >decade long therapy (with several different therapists) I certainly had many, many times when I thought therapy was a bunch of crock and I was deluding myself into thinking that anything would ever be any different. On the other side of it now, however, I *know* that it isn't, and that it can change one's thinking, help to let go of the past, and LIVE a better future. I could definitely benefit from more therapy yet, but I am done (content) for now. I would never, ever want to go back to the living hell of my pre-therapy days.

I came from an extremely abusive background where I was s* abused by three members of my immediate family, and emotionally and physically abused as well. Pre-therapy I was a hopeless wreck with DID, severe depression, frequent SU tendencies, and with negative educational and vocational consequences for my frequent acting out. For the first two years of therapy I was too afraid to speak.
After therapy I am happy, content, emotionally stable, assertive, strong, and self-nurturing. None of that would be possible without therapy. Therapy changed the course of my life, without a doubt. I embrace my past -all of it. Without it I would not be who I am today, and I LIKE who I am. I wouldn't change a thing.