My T will occasionally say that it may not feel like it but the fact that more memories and crap are coming up and even though I feel bad about them that it is a good thing and means progress. He says that my parts know that i am able to handle more so they are sharing more memories with me because I have worked through so much already. Water out of the bucket to make room for more so to say. Like you, I buried everything for 50 years. I had a lot of depressioin and SUI since probably the age of 8, but I never let my emotions show. I still don't; he says I have the worst flat affect he has ever seen. While I still have all of those same feelings, I am able to recognize them now and have developed a lot of coping skills to deal with them. So in that way I guess I see the progress.