Very good, Jenny.  I find positive thinking of immeasurable
help.  It stops the feedback loop of dispair and
disappointment.  Here's a little exercise from Cognitive
Therapy I use (Cognitive Therapy is controversial, of
course, so your mileage may vary):

http://www.helpself.com/thinker.htm

YOU GET WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN

The following excerpt is from the self help
psychology book, Be Your Own Therapist.

Can this be true? I get what I believe in? I know your
immediate response may be, "No, that's not true". However, I
ask you to hang in there with the possibility of that
statement being the truth. For freedom lurks just over the
horizon. If I can get over my beliefs in my own sickliness,
obesity, and being persecuted, then these will, according to
this theory, no longer be drawn into my life. "But the fat,
sickness and persecution are all around! Open your eyes!"; I
hear you respond. I suggest that you hold that unhappy
response at arm's length and practice instead the happier
beliefs for a time as in the next exercise.

Growth Exercise. Visualize (or pretend) several times a day
for the next two weeks (1)being at your appropriate weight,
(2)health and vitality, and/ or (3)love from and towards all
your persecutors. (Pick only those visualizations
appropriate to your difficulties.)

An important healing truth is that the body reacts virtually
the same way to an imagined (or pretended) experience as it
does to a real experience.

If you do this exercise, things will most likely start to
change for you in very positive directions. Then you will
have experienced some of the truth in the statement: you get
what you believe in. Experience, my own and that of others,
suggests that it may take months or years before you fully
believe the statement. You get what you believe in has
unhappy ramifications with respect to how undesirable
unhappy beliefs really are (they attract more unhappiness
and draw unhappy people/ situations into one's life).

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Best wishes,

scp

Well done Jennifer. I was a bit worried about you from one of your previous
posts. Keep up the good work.

From personal experience,  I can tell you that you might have the occasional
lapse, but the good news is that you will always come back to positive
thinking. You are right, it helps, and not just if you have T!!

All the best,
Simon
The Netherlands.