It can be exhausting, trying to fit in. Feeling like you’re wearing a mask all the time. An emptiness inside, maybe.
But in making the decision to start therapy, you are choosing yourself. Your wellbeing, your energy, and your heart over the dissatisfaction, melancholy, the repeated frustrations. Nothing will change unless something changes.
And it can feel overwhelming to want to change, but there is something in you (no matter how small that part) that perhaps believes it could be better. That there is more to living than this. Trusting that part can be scary. It is also the first step.
“The previously unmanageable feelings become more manageable. They become less terrifying than before, because another person has actually felt them and has been able to tolerate the experience of those feelings”
(Casement, 1985:82)
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