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MENTAL HEALTH
Therapy Has Taught Me Three Fundamental Things
I failed to realize this for the longest time
Depression, depression, depression. It’s all I’ve ever known.
But — although seemingly counterintuitive I recently stopped seeing my therapist. No, not for a lack of money. It was because I just couldn’t go anymore. I had reached a point where going to therapy was more draining than staying away. So I did the logical thing to do and… stayed away. I like to call it therapy fatigue and I have processed my many emotions on this matter in a recent article.
Stopping therapy freed up some mental capacity to actually stand still for a moment and reflect on what all these years of seeing therapists have actually taught me. Have I been taught anything at all? Anything of value? Anything that will last or anything that has fundamentally shaped the way I see and deal with things?
The answer is yes. And what I found is so surprisingly simple that I am at a loss for words how I could not have grasped these fundamental truths much earlier.
What causes depression?
The question should be: What causes my depression? There are as many complex causes as there are patients but I still remember that breakthrough therapy…
