I'm glad you went for it and found it productive! One more note to help you normalize it: the standard for psychoanalysis is frequent sessions, like three times a week, ongoing, for years, so while that's too expensive for most people, it's certainly not unheard of or considered harmful, it's just intensive work that I think can have intensive results, just like an exercise program.

Now that you're doing it, I'll mention it's really helpful to me to try and get a little extra rest because the sessions can be tiring, and also try to treat myself a bit, just small things like a cup of hot chocolate or watching a funny movie to help me balance out the hard work and have something to focus on along with the difficult topics of therapy. Also, like I mentioned above, I sometimes feel a bit like a yarn ball of problems getting untangled, so I do also have to remind myself of my strengths and remember it's a positive thing to be so aggressive about working through my issues instead of looking at it as just being problem-ridden and not able to cope, haha. That it's brave to look so intensely at my life and rework it.