Posted by pegasus on June 22, 2004, at 10:43:33
In reply to Re: Father's Day, posted by fires on June 21, 2004, at 21:43:48
It's baffling to me how you might have come to the conclusion that therapy is not helping the people who post here about how hurt they are. The way I read it -- and I've been reading posts here for several months now -- therapy has been immensely helpful for most of the people who post here. Maybe you just have a different definition of help than I do?
I would like to offer my own personal story of therapy. When I started I was suffering from recurring depression and anxiety that often "took over" my life. Two and a half years later, and I can say that I haven't had an obsessive anxiety episode in over a year (that's a lifetime record). My self injury is at an all time low. I've embarked on an exciting career change that I was terrified to even consider before therapy. My relationships with my family and friends have improved drastically. I am happier than I have ever been in my life, on the whole, and I feel that my future is wide open and that I'm free. These are things that I never felt before therapy. I attribute all of these drastic and much appreciated changes largely to therapy. Having that support, encouragement, challenge, and caring was a huge new thing in my life. Talking through my experiences was huge for me. No one had ever let me do that before. It helped me to put everything in a better perspective. I can't imagine how I could have done the same without the help of my wonderful therapist. I would be slogging through way back at the beginning right now if not for his help.
I suppose one could attribute these changes to something other than the therapy. But that was the only thing that I changed in my life at that time, and I firmly believe that it gave me the support I needed to consider -- or even want -- the other changes that came later.
pegasus
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