Getting worse before it gets better rings true with my experience. A therapist can definitely stir things up on the inside. For me, the first part of feeling worse/getting better was just finally being honest about how bad things had been for a very long time. Denial started to fall away and that looked and felt like things getting much worse. I am early in the process and trying to be okay with time between my two appointments per week. Sometimes, so much happens between appointments, it feels like months. And then there is the dilemma of what to report and what not to report. Ugh. Creating continuity in "normal" life is hard enough. With so many internal actors, I lean on the T to create continuity from session to session.