Welcome to Back from the Abyss. I'm Dr. Craig Ecock.

Sometimes in the course of psychotherapy, there can come a point where the therapist says something so real, so raw, so deeply true, so unexpected, and soul-stirring that the client, the patient, just begins to pour tears.

Their face twitches.

They find themselves kind of struggling to breathe.

And it's the most powerful thing to witness

or to experience it.

I've been on both sides.

And to experience is to feel so known, so heard,

and so surprised, because again, what I think brings forth these tears is when the therapist is

able to point out something that the patient or client didn't fully see themselves. And this actually happened to me a few weeks ago.

I was reading an iTunes review of all things of Back from the Abyss. And let me read it.

But the effect was, and again, whoever wrote this, thank you so much. It was, well, you'll hear what happened.

So I read this and I just started crying.

I just cried and cried.

And then I read it a few minutes later to my wife and I cried.

And I read it to my mom and I cried. And it was because it was so true and unexpected,

and it was just like what happens in therapy, I think, when you have somebody point something

out that you didn't really know, but so true. So here's what it says. This is a review from

December 6th, 2021.

Dr. Hecock's work, I'm back from the abyss,

captures something that I've never been able to articulate in a succinct or concise way,

which is everything I love about psychiatry and why.

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