(((Freewilled)))

I think that most Ts (I know all Ts are different and this may not be true for all of them) live for the moment when the client's pain starts to go away after all that hard work. I think very few of them get off on the pain itself - it just wouldn't be possible to deliver good therapy if they didn't feel empathy for the client.

From what I understand it actually does heal. Really. It's the scabbing over hurting places that leads to a need for therapy in the first place, if you see what I mean.

I'm really sorry you are hurting so very much.

Here's a website that has provided very useful information for me, which includes a bunch of case histories for clients who did get better: About Psychotherapy. I used to think that the guy who wrote it must be too good to be true, but my current T seems to work much along the same lines.