Have you and your mental health professional reached your goal?

The point where they say we can continue your sessions but you now have all the tools necessary to live a productive life. I get the feeling that a lot of them don't ever tell patients that.

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Miram · 31-35, F

What we know about the brain and how to treat mental illnesses isn't enough to cure them. But coping is possible and mental states change with more radical events that lead to realizations. Each case is different no matter how relentlessly they try to group them all under a label. And just to determine how those differences impact on the method of treatment can take years of experimentations. No wonder lot of patients need life long support.

The belief that mental illnesses are at best to be coped with doesn't encourage research that seeks to find actual fixes neither.

It is very complicated issue...but I personally did make progress with cognitive therapy and I don't see a therapist anymore. If I relapse, I will have to go through it all over again.

lakergoy · 36-40, M

@Miram well im glad you were helped... That part at the beginning of your post is good to have out in the open

Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

@Miram So was your therapist for, against, indifferent?

Miram · 31-35, F

@lakergoy Thank you.

@Jackaloftheazuresand If he was against and I left that would be the kiss of death to my career. He was very much for.