Posted by pegasus on April 30, 2009, at 12:27:44
In reply to Has therapy made you happier?, posted by Tabitha on April 30, 2009, at 1:57:45
For me it definitely has. I think a lot of the increased happiness is in response to finding the right meds for me. But also, I think I was the type of person who had a type of happiness before therapy as well. It was always just too much to be really pleasant. I was either slogging through some form of despair, or jangled up with a crazy excitement. So, learning to manage my emotions through therapy has helped a lot, and meds have brought them down into a range that I can manage. That's over the long term. In the short term, there have definitely been times when my misery was increasing or not changing in response to things going on in therapy.
I think it depends on exactly what is the root of your misery, and what you're doing in therapy. I agree with Dinah that removing misery may not always be something that therapy can help you accomplish. In my case it has helped a lot with that. But I'd say, even more, it's been about increasing meaning in my life.
Peg
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