ditto, except I've had several therapists and breaks in there.

Many years before that, I had gone to therapy a number of times but never stuck with it more than 1 to maybe 5 visits. I never thought about how long it would take back then.

I never talked about how long with any therapist except my current one, who I've been seeing about a month and a half. My last therapist shoved me to quit, so with this therapist, I was trying to find out if she would do the same thing, and I was glad she said she's okay with people staying as long as they want. But I was sad I was glad at the prospect of being in therapy indefinitely. I haven't seriously considered how long I'll continue with her. I haven't seriously hoped it will help me improve; I'm just trying to get along from week to week after the nastiness of the last therapist. However, I've never had a therapist say they thought I needed to be in therapy, or that there was an amount of time I'd need to do it for. I don't think I have to be in therapy, but my suicidal thinking would be more intense now without it.