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... used to feel like a victim all the time ...but normally I don't anymore and I think that's the major change. When you realise actually you are not a victim, okay, something happened to you, it was very unpleasant and affected me a lot, actually it affected the way I am anyway, it made me into what I am, but I can nevertheless decide what I want. So I feel much more in control of my life.

Yes, it was very emotional actually but it was a good ending because I was normally one of these people who could never end, it was always running away from this kind of thing, endings or saying goodbye, it was awful I could never stand it.

... think in the beginning I went with issues I probably needed to deal with superficially or there and then. And then we started digging and digging and digging and going further and further and further into who I was or who I am really, and understanding myself. ....And it was almost like tentative mental steps in the beginning and then it became more and more exciting. So it was always a mental dance and I felt that every single step I was discovering something different. It was almost Alice through the Looking Glass; nothing is like it seems.

... needed to deal with those things that I couldn't have dealt with, with anyone other than a therapist I think. I mean family and friends wouldn't have understood. Well I probably wouldn't have opened up to them. I think it's this whole trust thing, I don't trust people enough, or didn't trust people enough, to be open enough. But with the therapy, I felt that I could trust this person, I knew it was going well. I just felt I could be open enough and no-one was going to judge me.