Busy Day Survived

Its been a busy day today for me, this afternoon after nearly 3 years of waiting I finally started therapy to try and help me with my social phobia. It was revealing as I discovered that I had put coping strategies in place at the early age of 6, it was something that I had never thought about, and in fact I thought that it was normal.

This evening I had my photography class, and not only did I manage to walk there and most of the way home on my own, I did it without wearing my baseball cap. This might not seem that important but I use my baseball cap as a barrier to hide behind, so to deliberately leave it at home was stressful.

I find it interesting that if people with a physical illness had to wait nearly 3 years for treatment, and that there was a restriction on the length of period for treatment, therefore treatment could end before you recovered, it would be headline news. Yet this is the reality for so any people with mental illness.