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here today · 01:05 PM

No need to apologize to me. I do the best I can here on PC – and I assume everybody else does, too. The best one can do at the time is the best one can do. We’re here mostly to support each other, IMHO, not criticize and nobody “owes” anybody else a reply. We do it in our own time, like it took a while for anybody to read your posts and decide whether or not to reply.

I read your post in Depression and I’m glad you have gone to the doctor to see about counseling. It has helped me, as I said. And it’s too bad that there is a waiting list, but I’ve read good things about the British NHS here on PC and elsewhere. I live in the US and there is no waiting list – but I’ve seen a lot of therapists who didn’t know how to recognize some complex issues with dissociation that I had going on, so I wasted a lot of my own time and money, causing me to beat up on myself even more.

I’m doing pretty OK now. Even good counseling takes a while, and you have to be proactive, sometimes, speaking up when you don’t think the therapist understands your difficulties. Maybe it will not seem so overwhelming if you just have one person to talk to and you don't have to reply to everybody? On the other hand, reply or write about something else when and if you want to here on PC. Good luck.