There's nothing magical about therapy and I believe that any therapist who acts like there is something magic is being unethical. For that reason, I think that any progress other than maybe some symptom relief of having someone listen to you, is slow and incremental. I also think that if there is progress the client deserves most of the credit, and the lot of change actually happens between sessions. The therapist thinks about the client for one hour a week maybe? But the client is thinking and processing and dealing with stuff all the time.

I think I was like others have said, there were lots of little things...like being able to deal with someone being angry at me without thinking about suicide, or telling someone else that I was angry at them. But although I appreciate the therapists' advice and attention, I don't really think they did anything to me. I decided to change stuff because I didn't like how I was feeling.

There have been many times that I did not feel like therapy was working at all and some periods when I think it even made it worse, but I still keep plugging away because overall I am not as miserable as I was 10 years ago.