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Re: Does therapy feel like indulgence to any of you? » pinkeye

Posted by cricket on May 6, 2005, at 7:34:43

In reply to Does therapy feel like indulgence to any of you?, posted by pinkeye on May 5, 2005, at 17:08:54

I certainly felt like it was an indulgence before I started therapy, although not in the way you stated as something for people with worse problems. But rather I thought it was something for financially well off people with nothing better to do than talk about themselves. In fact, I said those exact same words to my T the first couple of times we met. "I think that therapy is just a middle class indulgence."

But now, 3 years into the process, have my views ever changed. For me, therapy has been everything but an indulgence. It's been heart-wrenching, terrifying and exhausting. At some times soothing and comforting and at other times a living h***. But mostly it has turned into something I feel like I need, some basic attention that I never had and now has become as necessary as food and drink.

I always think that I am doing this for the good of others and it's not just a consolation on my part, it is something I actively dedicate each and every therapy session to (it's part of my religion to think this). Starting with my son as Dinah said and then extending out to everyone else that I will be able to touch as a more whole, happier, healthier human being.

But I certainly know what you mean, I spend half of every week determined to quit because I think I am wasting my T's time.


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