Let's see if this helps...

Thanks Loxxie, hope you're doing well too!

26 days GF now, but still need to chase up the counselling as I still haven't been contacted by whoever I was referred to via Netline.

Good to hear from you, glad its going well!

30 days now! 😀 Work is horribly stressful and busy, this would usually send me straight to the bingo hall to sit and play in the slots lounge. I'm not giving in this time though!

39 days now 🙂 Have recently been emailed regarding the counselling referral so fingers crossed that may start up in the New Year...

48 days 😀

88 days GF which I'm pretty impressed by seeing as I failed my exam and work is stressful as hell (and making me ill) both of which would usually make me feed money into the machines to switch off. The counselling assessment is finally taking place in a couple of weeks so hopefully that should help sort my head out a little.

Hope everyone else is doing well! 😀

115 days 😀

140 days! 😀 I had the counselling assessment well over a month now. It was tough but I though maybe it would help, however I've heard nothing more from them since which seems very strange. I was asked to talk about quite a lot of painful stuff then I left with those emotions still swirling around and heard nothing more from the counselling team.

Hi Veebee,

Excellent work and well done on your 140 days! You have made great progress.

I am sorry to hear that you have not been contacted by the counselling service. Have you tried to get in touch with them to find out?

Kind wishes

Gabriele

Hello Veebee,

Good to hear from you. I missed your last update and you was one of the people from a while back i had wondered how things where going. Good to hear you are still GF!

I would chase the counselling up, i get the feeling that are very busy so might need poking to remind them you are still there, hehe.

All the best.

180 days! 😀 I did contact the counselling service and they wanted me to let them know my availability again - my admin has been pretty poor as life has been so hectic so I never got back to them. It also annoyed me a little as one of the questions I was asked during my session was my availability, and was told that they would contact me.

I have a feeling that if I respond now I'll be told I left it too long. I do still think it would be useful for me as, although I am still GF, I know that if I started again I wouldn't be able to stop. Also many of the difficult questions I was asked still brought up pain and tears for me so I obviously have unresolved issues that it would be useful to work through. I do think I've missed the boat on the sessions now though.

224 days!!!! Woop woop! And the counselling starts from tomorrow...a little anxious about how it will play out. Will I leave feeling unhappy and confused? Will I hate myself at the end of it? Will the counsellor judge me?

450 days! 😀