Mental illness has a way of covering your eyes and making it seem like there’s no way out of the fog. The love letter from my therapist is transcribed here in an annotated list; I received it in person.
I am passing it on to you. 1. You don’t need to go from sad to happy. There’s a whole range of other emotions that will work instead. I was in crisis counseling, wondering how I could possibly survive the week.
I didn’t see my usual therapist, I saw the therapist on call, and she told me something I’d never thought about before. “Sick people don’t try to get better overnight,” she explained. “It’s a process.
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