I think breaks can be great. They can give us a chance to consolidate what we've learned in T and practice it in the real world, without all the stress of having new stuff constantly poked and prodded!

I also think a lot depends on your goals, and as others have said, the support network you have.

I took ~7 years off from therapy. All that previous therapy was awful and making things worse. I put the effort into getting my life to be stable and calm, and one of the things that helped was taking music lessons. My teacher is awesome, and very therapeutic - he's very appropriately caring and consistent in a way that none of my previous Ts have been!

I'm at the point now where I'm going to therapy, but I feel a little better able to deal with it, because of the stability I've been building in my life. It's not all happy-happy, but I'm much more stable I think than I was 10 years ago. We'll see.