1. How long have you been in therapy?
10 years with my current psychologist - kind of scary actually.
5 years with my current psychiatrist
1 1/2 years with my addictions Dr. I'm having lots of therapy at the moment,

2. What are your main symptoms, the reasons you went into therapy?
I was having a really hard time at work & since work was basically how I identified myself, I was losing all my coping strategies at once. Basically I would spontaneously burst into tears throughout the day, Also dealt with dissociation, self injury, depression, anxiety, and addiction.

3. What do you think are the origins of your symptoms?
Combination biology / genetics (depressed mother, alcoholic father) & environment childhood trauma and abandonment issues.

4. How successful has your therapy been? Very. It's been really hard, especially dealing with the addiction, but I feel like a different person. I'm starting to feel like I felt in my 20's again before all my MH problems started, Social anxiety - isolating, and self image continue to be major problems, but I'm working on them.