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Originally Posted by Asiablue
I really don't know if i want to go back. I keep going over it and over it in my head and i just can't decide. It's been 7 weeks since i was there, and i feel so much better for having not having a permanently open emotional wound. I know i have stuff to work out, i know i probably should go back, but i also know on a daily basis i cope just fine without it. yuk. Does anyone have any wisdom?? 
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So far as I'm concerned, you only go to therapy when you have no other choice: it hurts so bad you just have to do something. You may have stuff to work out but unless it's driving you nuts you have other options. It's entirely possible in some circumstances to work things out while you're living your regular life, without professional help. It just depends on how uncomfortable you are.
I spent several years thinking about self-destruction every day for hours. So when I got the opportunity to go to therapy, I really wanted to go and try it. It was therapy or forget the whole thing. I'd been to therapy many years previously when I wasn't in such bad shape and it didn't work. So I stopped. And believe me, you yourself will KNOW you have to go when the right time comes.
So, don't fret about it. If therapy doesn't present itself as an absolute necessity, like an ER room to a heart attack victim, then you don't really need to go. Just my way of thinking! Take care.
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