Our brains are built for resolution, and I am not the only one who has gone from overwhelming to less overwhelming, although I don't think all of it is due to therapy, at least some of it is. I don't think I'm special and I think it's possible for anyone, and it happened because I figured out what worked for me.

If you've ever done any long distance or intense physical event, there's a breakthrough point where it stops being so hard and you feel like you can (in my case swim) forever. That's what it seemed like for me at multiple points in this process, although process is hard for me to wrap my head around until I'm through it.