“The first thing he did,” Priya Sundaram says, “was tell me to spend less time in bed. I thought he’d misheard me.”
Progress was not linear. There was a plateau around week nineteen that felt, at the time, like the programme had stopped working. It had not.
What she would tell someone else
Nobody involved describes this as solved. It is managed, and managed is a job you do every day, indefinitely, with better or worse information.
Week two is the worst week. We tell everybody that in week one, because otherwise they leave in week two.
Tomas Ferreira, clinical psychology
Eleven years of averages
The other half of the programme was a twenty-minute call every two weeks with the same practitioner. Not a different person each time reading notes. The same person, who remembered.
“I stopped treating a bad night as a catastrophe. That’s the whole trick, and it took eight weeks to learn.”
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