Hi alecc and welcome to PC! I have found so much help and support here and hope you will too.

I've been in therapy with a Jungian depth therapist (for major depression and anxiety) for 3.5 years now, I had my last appointment a week ago and we have now changed to me calling her on an as-needed basis.

I can't really speak for anyone else of course, just for myself. This is my 3rd try at therapy, and the only successful one. Depth therapy has been painful, hard, rewarding, crazy-making, enjoyable, everything under the rainbow. Overall it has been the BEST thing that I could have ever done for myself. During the 3.5 years with this t doing depth work, I have changed jobs from one that sucked my very soul to one that is fulfilling and that I love, I have a group of friends completely outside of work (which I had never had friends aside from "work friends" my entire adult life until now) based on mutual interest, published my first book of poems, my relationships have gotten stronger and better and I now see myself as a loveable, valuable, and special human being, I was able to completely get off the antidepressents I had been on (with pdoc's blessing, I was on Zoloft and Trazodone, been off them for 2 years now), I'm volunteering with the girl scouts, etc etc and overall am the happiest I have ever been.

But yeah... it's been a LOT of hard work to get here. Oh so worth it though. We really dove deep into my past.... I've already babbled on enough so I won't go into details but I was able to forgive both of my parents (not at the same time, it took a lot longer to forgive my mom) but I got there. For me, not for them. It's been so very, very worth the hard work, pain, struggle, and tears. There were gradual improvements all along.... I got the new job a year into therapy, stuff like that. As I began to feel better little by little it gave me confidence to keep trusting n the process and keep working hard. Just wanted to share my story. Again I am speaking only for myself. But I hope hearing my story helps a little!!