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When to quit therapy

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I've been lurking for a while and am now looking for some advice. My biggest fear is that I will quit and then if I need to go back, I'll be too embarrassed...I'll feel too needy to go back or like a failure...Uuuughh....I've just been feeling a lot of anxiety over all of this. I had a really bad week last week and I'm wondering if deep down I am sabatoging my progress to justify staying in therapy?!?!? I mean, if I quit, I'm not going to have this safe haven anymore? How do you know when you've done the right amount of work with someone to be able to be self sufficient on your own?
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Well, to start with, you could talk to your T about reducing the frequency of your sessions. At one point, I thought I was about ready to stop therapy, so we switched from weekly to bi-weekly sessions. We discussed reducing them further until I just came back when I needed to. I don't think it's necessary to go "cold turkey."

In my case, I did sabotaged myself, but that is part of the stuff I'm working on now.

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