Am I too old for Therapy?

Granatlast007, I am so sorry that you have been through this, it must be awful. However, it may have been that at some point in time you would have had those memories triggered and been in an even worse place. Therapy or not those events were there to spring out at you; it is often what happens. I have found the Me Too movement has opened up a Pandora's box of feelings which I thought had long since been worked through. I try hard to practice mindfulness to get me through the worst times. Those feelings will never, ever fully go away and the best you can do is try to find a way through. It does get better with practise...so I'm told.

Update and thanks. I have been having remote therapy for some years initially started by the difficulty I felt in feeling that I had to, and wanted to, support a father with whom I had had a very difficult relationship and a brother with MS with whom I had never really shared much love or indeed desire for company, when what I really wanted to do was to use my retirement to travel, move to france, and enjoy life with my DH. Dad died last year, and, as with the last 10 years of looking after him, I find myself constantly thinking of the past, of our family, and family history…he was ver interested in this. I feel as if his thoughts and experiences are very important and need to be preserved and enhanced and this is preventing me from moving forward with my life. Then I recalled a contributor to this thread advising the writer to write down her experiences, and thought, ´that’s what I need to do’. So thank you. Perhaps a way to finally be free from this constant regression. Wish me luck!