I'd like to encourage you :)

I'd like to encourage you.

I've recently been able to cut the last tie with my very long term therapist. Yes, it took a massive amount of courage but I knew it was the right thing to do and, afterall, what we'd been working towards from the start.

I know therapy isn't the answer for everyone. But when you feel it is: I know from reading posts on this forum that some of you feel discouraged or in pain with therapy and I wanted to write a brief summary here to show you that it can get better and that if you hang in there you will, one way or another, arrive at a stronger, healthier feeling, more accepting and peaceful place.

My T and I didn't always see eye to eye. That's an understatement! But I can honestly say that when I look back eight years to when I 'accidentally' began sessions with her I hardly recognise the person who was me then. All of the challenges, all the pain of transference, all the ruptures , all the inner changes and all the practical changes I then felt able to make, enabled me to understand and accept and find a place for my demons from the past, to find who I really was, to see life in a whole new realistic way that works for me. I still have to live with a lot of the things that are difficult and stressful. But now I can handle that without the intense anxiety that I thought at one point meant my life was not worth living.

At times life and therapy during those eight years felt like a mountain that was more like a vertical wall and too tough to even begin to climb and too painful when I tried. But there came a day when I realised it might have been tough, but somehow I'd discovered I was tougher and had reached the top.

It's just an inner feeling and place really of course. But it's worth the climb so be encouraged.

((Daisymay))

thanks so much for sharing this!

THANK YOU for sharing this!!

I am glad it went well for you.

Thank you for sharing this: you've made my day.

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