Posted by Crooked Heart on January 26, 2004, at 11:01:58
In reply to Re: Don't Let Go Yet - » Crooked Heart, posted by DaisyM on January 24, 2004, at 17:49:32
Sorry for not replying sooner. My usually reliable machine would choose the weekend to freeze up.
I hope you are feeling better and finding time to look after yourself as well as those around you.
> But it took you 5 years? hmmm. Did you find that you started for one reason and ended up in a quagmire of many different ones? I know essentially everything is linked and I guess I'm glad I'm trying to figure it all out now, but it is pretty hard.I started with various reasons. It would take too long to go into them, but it's odd cause now you mention links I can see a big one that hadn't struck me before. (So first the "cure" then, years later, the "aha". Some of us are a bit slow!)
I should have made it clear, the really bad depths didn't last for 5 years. (I hope you didn't get that impression!) The worst time was a matter of weeks not years, and the rest of the time there were highs as well as lows.
Certainly I don't know whether it *had* to take 5 years. (At the start I'd imagined maybe 6 months, 18 months at the outside. After a few months I was definitely one of the people who can't imagine therapy ending. My therapy finished because, very sadly, my therapist had to retire because of her long-term illness.) Reading what people have posted here has made me realise how different an experience therapy is for different clients and therapists. So I hope it doesn't need to take that long for you.
> A word about my Therapist: (OK, a couple of words)... ... but I think he knows what he is doing and I trust him. And for me, that says a lot.What more could one say? I'm so glad that you happened upon a therapist that's right for you.
Take care of yourself.
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