Jakub Markiewicz (j.m.)
+5
Life-changing 16 weeks with my therapist Amy Young. Forever grateful for all the help I've received. I've learned skills here for life. Thank you, you've saved my life. ♡
At the end of 2019 I underwent a 12 week course of CBT for anxiety and chronic depression. This is about the 3rd or 4th time I have used this excellent service, this time I am continuing to take antidepressants which together with the therapy is helping me to maintain a balance, whereas before I stopped the antidepressants fairly soon after the therapy finished. This time I had a follow up session about 2 months later to see how it was going....brilliant, it gave me that bit of extra support.
I think the best approach with CBT is to accept that it is not a cure, but an Avenue that teaches and allows you to control your problems and to keep them from the forefront of your mind, allowing you to get on with life relatively normally, I still get bad days but I know how to pretty much overcome them now.
So a massive thank you to STW and especially my therapist, without this the medical worries I have had over the last couple of months would have overwhelmed me, this is a highly recommended service.
I was at a very low point in my life, I had lost my mother, bills were piling up without the funds to pay them, couldn't afford the bedroom tax and council tax and my siblings were divided about the care our mother had received. Then to top it all off my daughter decided that she could not put up with seeing me because of my erratic behaviour and very aggressive moods as it was disrupting her life, & if it carried on I couldn't see my grandchildren as it was not fair to them. I was ashamed & I just wanted to die. I consider myself very lucky to have been put in touch with Steps to wellbeing. I attended weekly sessions in a group where I didn't have to explain myself. I learnt how to help control myself with the hand outs given at each session and additional help was offered by being able to speak to one of the ladies taking the group after the session had finished. They have given me a chance to be a person I like again. I am not out of the woods but can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I cannot praise this service too much. A very valuable service is offered by this business and I can say hand on heart it saved me.
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