I just started talking to a therapist a few months ago, for the first time in my life. It's due to me feeling down (and possibly depressed) due to being alone & lonely again after getting divorced last year, and then trying to date and dealing with dating rejection, especially after I've met a couple people I really started to like and they decided not to continue seeing me. I've been feeling lonely, and it has felt difficult at times to be by myself again. Also, I've noticed I can start to fall for someone easily if we get along and they seem to like me, and I've wondered if I have an attachment issue. Besides feeling lonely, I've also been feeling unmotivated and have had a hard time doing all the same things I used to like to do. I've been doing some somewhat different things now.. I think I've been slowly feeling better, but overall I still feel a bit down & unmotivated.

I feel like it helps to talk to my therapist, but as I still overall feel a bit down and unmotivated, I'm wondering how much my therapist has been helping. I know that talking to a therapist isn't going to be a magical cure, but I feel like I'm not sure I've gotten to the root of my issues so that I can best change myself to feel better. Some of the advice he's given has been to be thankful for what I do have in my life and that it's okay to be single. I think that kind of thing does help, though I still don't quite feel myself.