Thank you. Brilliant There on WNYC and now we will end today's show with your calls on quitting or

graduating from therapy.

Listeners, have any of you stopped attending your weekly or otherwise regularly scheduled therapy

appointments recently what brought you to that decision how did you realize

you were ready to move on from the therapy couch or chair or relationship

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WNYC. I asked this because a piece published in the Atlantic earlier this week suggested

that quote, as the title goes,

plenty of people could quit therapy right now.

The author will join us in a second.

His idea is to counter the fairly common belief

that therapy is a lifelong practice and that everyone

should be in therapy all the time.

But getting into a therapeutic practice, finding the right therapist, dealing with with insurance if you have insurance

tackling long-held negative thought patterns or trauma is quite laborious and

once you have a good therapist for you,

that relationship can be so special, right?

So at what point do you reach the end of that journey,

if any, 212 433, WNYC, 212 433 WNYC 212 433 9692 for those of you who've ever been in therapy for whatever reason

and then decided to stop how did you know you'd be okay without it?

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Or are you long term in therapy

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