MainerMikeBrown
Confident
Back in 2002, I was set up with a new psychotherapist at a local community mental health center.
Before I saw this therapist, I had been in both individual and group therapy for quite some time. And I felt that I had made a lot of progress in getting over past trauma that I had experienced years before, in part, because of the therapy I had received.
However, a few weeks prior to seeing this new counselor for the first time, I had a bad week. I felt depressed for about a week before the depression lifted again.
So I talked to this therapist about the bad week that I had not long beforehand.
I asked her that since I had a bad week, did that mean that I was not over my past trauma?
She told me that it's common for trauma survivors with clinical depression who have been in treatment for a long time, have gotten a lot better, and have moved on from the trauma to have a bad week occasionally. She then said that I was probably over it.
So, according to this therapist, if you have depression issues and also have been through trauma in your past, having a bad week every so often doesn't necessarily mean that you aren't over the trauma. You may very well be over it.
Before I saw this therapist, I had been in both individual and group therapy for quite some time. And I felt that I had made a lot of progress in getting over past trauma that I had experienced years before, in part, because of the therapy I had received.
However, a few weeks prior to seeing this new counselor for the first time, I had a bad week. I felt depressed for about a week before the depression lifted again.
So I talked to this therapist about the bad week that I had not long beforehand.
I asked her that since I had a bad week, did that mean that I was not over my past trauma?
She told me that it's common for trauma survivors with clinical depression who have been in treatment for a long time, have gotten a lot better, and have moved on from the trauma to have a bad week occasionally. She then said that I was probably over it.
So, according to this therapist, if you have depression issues and also have been through trauma in your past, having a bad week every so often doesn't necessarily mean that you aren't over the trauma. You may very well be over it.