Right at the start of my journey into therapy, I very much had an idea that I would go along to a T for CBT for 16 weeks (that's what the NHS in the UK offered) and be cured.

I remember my very first therapy session EVER and after chatting for a while I said "OK, that's enough, now please wave your magic wand and cure me". Although part of me was joking, I think the other half was being deadly serious.

I joke with my current T about it now too, I often say that she CAN wave her wand and cure me, but that she refuses to do so.