Biggest improvement you have seen since starting therapy

Biggest change... I'm nicer to myself and less stressed. When I started therapy I was always in a panic about something, and I had a bad self dialogue where I called myself an idiot and a loser all day and droned over all the mistakes I had made/was making. I was highly paranoid everyone else felt the same about me and that I would lose my job or be dumped by "friends" for something trivial. Well, turns out both happened... but, none the less...

Today I care less. If my best isn't good enough for someone, they can just go f themselves, I don't see it as my failure. When I think something negative about myself another part of me immediately challenges that thought. But I don't have that many bad thoughts about myself anymore. I think people are lucky to have me around if they do. My life is for me, and I'm always thinking of ways to be happier still.

Well, I'm not where I used to be, but I've still got a ways to go ...

Still don't understand sometimes how I can be rockin' along pretty good, then BAM! out of nowhere it's like I'm gobsmacked by it all over again!

But, in spite of all that, I have seen some progress ...

I think!

When I started T a year and a half ago, I could barely talk and I was always shaking with anxiety. Thanks to the hard work of my T, I am just starting to learn to talk about myself. I think both T and my meds have helped some of my anxiety responses. I have a way to go, but I can now talk - which is pretty important!

Had a bunch of years of therapy followed by a bunch of years with no therapy. Re-entered therapy about eight months ago.

Biggest benefits:
-Learned it might not be a bad idea to try to trust another therapist.
-Found relief in feeling I am not facing challenges alone.
-Found relief in having someone to help organize my chaos.
-Recognizing instances where I hear things wrong, "hearing negatives and making them my fault."

I also have far to go.