I have more understanding of and compassion for myself and others and more friends than I had before I started this journey. I also realise the dysfunctions of those who abused me were theirs and theirs only, and all the insults and labels they projected onto me belonged to them. I am evolving into someone who is all the good things those who understand me think I am. And I am none of the things that people who judged me for my bad days thought I was. If I had never tried the traditional treatments, (which did not help since they were not delivered with compassion or respect) I wouldn't have found things that actually were and are helpful to me.