[MissCharlotte]

I wonder...

What would we all do without therapy? What if there was no such thing and no holding environment for us?

Would we run around flipping out screaming and starting fights? Would we buy guns?

Would we just use more meds?

Would we withdraw and never go out again having daily panic attacks?

What if there were no therapy?

Oh goodness I'm so glad there is therapy.

Good question sister

I would have no walls left through banging my head and climbing them

Jinny xoxoxoxoxoxo

I'm so glad there is therapy, too.... in spite of the mess of feelings that I have to deal with as a result of having this relationship. Sometimes the anxiety of attachment and abandonment is too much for me... sometimes I am not up to the point yet in which I can always be glad for therapy-- sometimes the hurt is too much-- but underneath it all, of course I don't know what I'd do without therapy.

Damn, I love him.

[sunrise]

sister, that is such a thought provoking question!

Without therapy, I think I would still be profoundly stuck in the marriage and would not have had the courage to move this far. I would still be miserable. Without therapy, I would still be depressed and barely functioning. Maybe I would have done something radical like leave all my problems behind by running off to another state. Maybe with my kids. Who knows. I think of my husband who was also depressed, but instead of going to therapy and dealing with his problems, he went to a doctor and started taking anti-depressants. This made him "happy enough" to stay in the miserable marriage longer. That, to me, is no solution. (Grrrrr, drugs!) So I am so glad for therapy. It has enabled me to really make progress on solving my problems.

Then of course there are the little things, like I've learned to trust another human being again!

[ECHOES]

Well my first thought is I'd pay the electric bill.

My second thought is that I would have lights, but be without a ray of hope.

to us all and especially our T's

well... i had a long hard battle to get therapy. if i wasn't in therapy now i guess i'd be doing what it was that i did before i was in therapy... posting to message boards about therapy and posting about my stuff and getting some helpful insights and stuff from there.

if there wasn't any such thing as therapy then i guess that would be harder... i wouldn't have so much reading to do... maybe i'd still be reading on what 'human nature' was supposed to be and notions of 'health' and 'flourishing' and the like.

maybe... we would be forced to get the needs that are currently met in therapy met by people outside therapy. friendly people... helpful people... caring people... maybe priests or priestesses or spiritual leaders... maybe GP's... maybe p-docs would be a little fonder of talking to their patients if there wasn't formal therapy.

[dalila]

<font color="green"> I would be dead.</font>

[Mouse_]

My first thought was I'd be dead. Most of my life I was an addict. BUT having said that, it was me that decided that the drinking had to stop. So I'm thinking somehow I'd have found a way to move forward and change because of emotional pain..somewhere inside of me is the "want" to change, I think if we've got that then change will happen with or without therapy, but therapy makes it easier, cleaner and sweeter than going it alone. One must want to be a butterfly.