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My biggest hurdle to going to therapy was that is was saying I was not self-sufficient, I was saying my life was so out of my control that I couldn't handle it anymore... which was especially hard since I pride, or prided myself over having control of my thoughts and mood, but I didn't anymore. I think the thing that finally got me over that hurdle was the fact that my depression was life threatening, that I wasn't sure I could continue in this life if nothing change, and when I was ready to admit that I hadn't tried everything and thus not trying the alternative therapies meant that saying I was hopeless was and unproven fact.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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