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Originally Posted by ruh roh
I wish this wasn't something that's told to people. It's too ill-defined and easy to use as a cop out for poor therapy (on both sides). I've mostly only ever gotten worse. This is the first time I have ever seen any progress, and I started to see it pretty early on, even though it's been small progress. Even if some things get worse, I think there should also be signs of things going in the right direction.
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Completely agree with this. With the good therapists I've seen, I've always been able to see very early on that my therapy was going to move me in the right direction. That didn't mean it wasn't at times horrendously painful to expose what was ailing me. At times I absolutely did become more depressed, etc., but even then, I still felt things were moving forward. I would come out of those episodes (which are part and parcel for my diagnosis), feeling like even though I had just been through the wringer I was still making progress and learning and healing -- just very slowly at times.
Therapy hasn't been very linear for me. It's been more like a rocking chair going back and forth, sometimes in small, fluid movements, sometimes in such large movements I pretty much tipped over; but, I have always been able to right the chair and get back in rhythm.