Interesting. How long were you in therapy for?
What worked for you?
It took me 3 years from my first burn-out to the point where at the time I believed I'd pretty much recovered. But this also includes a practically wasted first year where I was delayed by shenanigans from the company I worked for while I was trying to do sessions with a psychologist. There's two main types of therapy that really did the trick for me, which combined cost me a total of a year and 3 months to do. I must
emphasise however that these were chosen for me and my situation specifically. Not everyone needs or is suitable for the same kind of therapy, nor is any result guaranteed. That's for professionals to figure out. ;)
The first main one I did was
schema therapy which I did in a group setting, 2 full days a week for a year. I learned to really open up and face my past head-on, but half a year in already knew I needed more. 2 days was not enough and allowed me to simply go home and escape from the stuff I was supposed to be working on in my head. So I was referred to an inpatient treatment that I was able to start at a couple of months after being done with this one.
The inpatient treatment was
transactional analysis which was also in a group setting, for 3 months total. Basically a pressure cooker way of doing therapy that I really needed so I couldn't escape from myself. Here I worked on my most deeply rooted issues while at the same time gaining confidence from all I was learning and overcoming. After all that my intense self-hatred was all but gone and I wasn't taking shit from people close to me anymore. And these things actually stuck to this day.
