I definitely got worse before I got better, or at least my symptoms were less hidden. Therapy brought up issues and emotions and symptoms that I had spent so long pushing down, so once I started opening up, yes, my symptoms became more intense. But it had to be done to get me where I am today. As things improved for me, my constant thinking about therapy and my issues started letting up, a bit at a time.

It did help to make very concerted effort to find activities to be involved in that were just about nurturing my soul: music, church, etc. in my case. When I started checking back into my life, that is when I made the greatest improvements. I had to find ways to get out of my head and see what was going on around me (outside my head) again. Finding that balance was difficult and actually rather frightening, but it did come and it did help.