Dear all and sundry (as there are too many of you to list),
I started therapy with No. 1 three years ago today. What's happened since then?
In rough chronological order:
- health problems leading to surgeries, during one of which the ventilator (you know, the thing that keeps you breathing) broke and the operation had to be stopped
- left an abusive marriage
- lost my beloved senior cat, as well as my ex-husband's cat
- managed to summon the courage to cut off contact with husband
- got through a ridiculously prolonged divorce, prolonged by ex fulfilling his threat to make it as painful as possible
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- got dumped by a psychiatrist (Smaug) who claimed I was suicidal (which I actually wasn't at the time)
- got dumped five days after that by my therapist (No. 2) in the middle of discussing an old SA, refusing references or a final session
- had one therapist (No. 3) interfere way too much in my life, leading partly to the psychiatrist incident and then another with DBC and then contacting me against my wishes last fall
No. 1 helped stiffen my backbone enough to leave my husband, a good thing. No. 3 helped me stay alive, which I now regard as a good thing.
Those ain't nothin'. But some of you became part of the problem, when I didn't need more problems.
Despite you and everything else, I'm still here, and some days I even think I'm thriving.
ATAT