I can't believe hope brilliant it was to clear my head and actually start to tell someone about all my problems. I was really nervous. But it went well, I think.
The woman I saw had some concerns. She said that I hadn't properly gotten over the death of my grandmother, and that life for me was very bleak and lonely and low at the moment.
She gave me the option of group therapy, bereavment counselling or one-on-one therapy with some place called Wimbledon Guild (anyone heard of it?) I chose the one-on-one.
She said it'll last for forty-ish weeks and will be really extensive and intense.
I guess the reason I'm posting this is partly to let people know that I guess I'm making progress - I'm getting help. Which is a good thing, apparently!
Second, I was wondering if anyone else has, and some of you probably have, taken one-on-one extensive year long super duper therapy like this? And what I should expect? I still have this paranoid notion that I'll be declared insane and never be allowed around shoelaces again, and have to eat dinner with plastic knives just in case?!
xo