My experience with therapy
I started therapy on 5th April 2021 - exactly one week after my last relationship ended. I think if I’m being honest, I probably should have started therapy a long time ago. I’ve lived with a lot of trauma for a lot of my life and I’ve always felt like I just wanted someone to speak to; someone to offer advice, someone to listen, someone to understand. I’ve always been quite a relationship type of person and so I think subconsciously I’ve always relied on my partner to be that supportive system for me, which I guess when I start to think about it properly is wrong of me. I can’t rely on someone else to sort out the stuff going on in my head. That’s unfair. I’ve tried lots of different types of medication in the past to help ease some of the pain from the situations I’ve dealt with, but none of them have ever really worked. They’ve just either made me feel like a zombie or completely changed me as a person (and not in a good way). Therapy was kind of a last resort - in the past I’v...