I don't see anything wrong with using therapy for support. When I saw my T for the first 9 years that was basically what I used it for and it got me through until year 18 when I could see her again for 9 years and then radically alter my life. My rule of thumb is not to let things get worse; if things are horrible and I stop something and that will make things get worse, I am not going to stop that!

You can be hopeless now but not tomorrow because tomorrow hasn't shown up yet. Tomorrow might contain what you need to feel better. So, if you can't hope now, hope for hope in the future. As Peter S. Beagle wrote in The Last Unicorn, "The happy ending can't come in the middle of the story." I always ask myself whether I'm happy and if the answer is "no" then I know it isn't the end of the story yet :-)