Do you notice any difference at all than when you started with this T?
For me, I tend to circle back to a few key events and themes in my life but each time we loop back around to it, I seem to be seeing it differently, different view point, different level of emotional investment? I'm not sure.
Right now, I could stop seeing my therapist and manage life ok. I've made big improvements in terms of emotional stability. What OK looks like today is a much different place than it was 4 yrs ago. At the same time, I still have the core goals I want to address/change/fix. Because I have made little to no progress on those goals, at times I feel that therapy is/has been not useful or that those issues/goals are ones that can't or won't ever be resolved. One of them is around disordered eating. I was in a psych meet up where the therapist in that group asked me, so what if I have disordered eating or always have a maladaptive relationship with food. It's possible that some of your 'issues' are not solvable but are manageable in a way that they don't disrupt your life. I'm not there yet by no means; however, her point that somethings are just how we are/who we are and the best we can do is be compassionate to those parts of us may be a valid point.
And like Mouse said, issues are part of the human condition. They are also part of what makes us uniquely us.
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