[Daisymay]

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.

[CantExplain]

((Daisymay))

[Wren_]

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.

thanks so much for sharing this!

THANK YOU for sharing this!!

[stopdog]

I am glad it went well for you.

[Ambra]

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

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