I was in therapy from 1970-2005 and the primary symptoms that took me into therapy didn't "go away" until around 2004. It is funny now, when I think about the mid- to late-70s when I was perhaps at my most miserable and how I'd try to imagine what it would be like not having the symptoms I did (which radically interfered with my life for anywhere from 5-15 hours a day) I couldn't imagine what life would be like, what I would do instead for that 5-15 hours. Now I can't imagine the scenarios I thought it would be like, how I'd have 5-15 "more" hours, etc. LOL. It wasn't/isn't anything like I thought it would be.