Seeking therapy isn't weakness. It can be a determined search for answers and healing.

Therapy maintained mental stability and enabled hard life choices, not dependency.

Long-term therapy can shift from crisis survival to wellness maintenance over time.

It started when I was young. Pretty young, anyway—18 years old. I didn’t know it would continue until I was well into my 50s; 59, to be exact. But I have cut down. I don’t do it weekly anymore, or biweekly or even monthly.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Sometimes it’s necessary, right? It’s a coping mechanism. There’s a time and place for everything.

Over the past 41 years I have seen:

Three registered clinical counsellors.

One campus counsellor.

One sex therapist (yes, really).

That's 14 in total. Two more and I get a free appointment.

I don’t say shrink. One of my favourite psychiatrists—yes, it’s possible to have a good psychiatrist who........

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