I would agree that Janine's post seems a bit more "ominous" but I think there is an important point (as always ;-)). To me (i could be completely off here, so i apologize if I am) it seems like Janine is letting us know that this stuff isn't easy. All so often, we want to find the easiest solution, and it's usually NOT the best solution. I am surely guilty of this. I have long wanted to hear some reassuring words from my thearpist and go along my merry way, finally cured. However, this is not going to happen. I just go right back to my self monitoring and obsessive thoughts. This stuff is hard work, and we tend to resist hard work and the best solution in favor of what we think is the best way, which is usually the way that has failed us the most in the past. (By the way, I am NOT insinuating that we are lazy or anything else like that, just that we usually prefer comfort all the time--which ironically isn't bringing us lasting comfort). I have been in therapy for six years, and i'm just now starting to realize that my current methods of coping with things are failing dismally. I have long resisted looking into my deeper emtoins and feelings, which I am starting to realize are what I really need to do. I have a lot of buried pain and shame and guilt and hurt that I have never faced, and I'm starting to think that this is what is causing a lot of my dp/dr and anxiety and depression. I've long treated the symptoms while ignoring the disease, so to speak. At least all of this is what I'm hoping...that good old obsessive part thinks I'm just finding reasons for this and I will never get well...sigh 
Did I get any of this right lol
Did I get any of this right lol
