It has helped me, it didn't cure my height neurosis mind you but I am at a point where I know that I will be satisfied with just a small gain of 4 cm or so. Height doesn't dominate my thoughts like it used to and I don't feel nearly as self counscious around taller people anymore. LL is now something I want to do quickly, safely and fast that I may close this chapter and move on and I think this is a much healthier attitude.
Finally I am also sober enough to realize that even though I would be ecstatic to gain 5, 6 or 7 cm, it makes more sense to aim lower. As I age and mature height will become less important and at that point I would rather have done too little than too much.
Bottom line is, try therapy to sober up before you rush into something dangerous.
Quote from: YellowSpike on November 12, 2015, 03:17:53 PMI've been going to therapy once a week, and it doesn't help me at all. All I'm using it for is a means to tide me over until I do further LL (either in my femurs or tibias). Of course therapy is helping you guys, you guys ARE NOT SHORT (not sure about Alu's height). I am still short, and all I want is to be average.
For me I have to choose between:
1. Do femurs and have bad proportions (but be 5'9", the lowest one can be and still be considered "average" in most cases, or "low average" at worst). Fast recovery.
2. Do tibias (what I really want to do), but lose my career and be jobless and broke. Eternal recovery.
So I'm essentially forced to do femurs, it seems. The mockups (which I've considered sharing on here, but I feel like everyone is going to make me feel terrible) actually don't look that much different from how I am now with more on femurs...but the tibia mockups of course look better.
I don't mean to minimize anyone's problems, but you 5'10" and up guys will never appreciate how good you have it. You may not be tall, but most importantly...you do not have the negatives of being labeled as short.
I too do not mean to minimize but surely you can recognize how important mindset is. My friend is 168 cm -that is 13 cm below average and he lives a more social and successful life than me despite being short. You are 5 cm taller in a country where the average is lower, try to gain some perspective mate as I have.
Quote from: YellowSpike on November 13, 2015, 07:32:48 PMHim and I have been talking. If Dr. Guichet won't change his mind on doing tibias on me (which still kind of scares me), Dr. Monegal is on my short list to do tibias (for just 1-1.5 inches tops) when the time comes.
Surgeons will do (and thus recommend) what procedures they are proficient at, Guichet doesn't do tibias but that doesn't mean it is dangerous in and of itself.
Quote from: Taller on November 13, 2015, 10:12:20 PMI think it's also worth mentioning that if one goes into therapy with the attitude that it definitely won't work, then you destroy any chance it may have had of working before you even start. You have to believe that it may fix your height neurosis, or at least put your insecurity vs how much height alone actually affects you into perspective.
As strange as this may sound, you also have to want it. You need to really try and not expect the shrink to work some kind of magic.
Quote from: chsn on November 14, 2015, 12:37:50 AMMy dad begged me to go to psychologist in Stockholm last week, as a try to change y mind about LL...did nothing for me...After a session of 45 minutes I was 90 euros lighter and more determine the ever to do CLL 
Are you swedish then?
We make up like a third of all LL patients
Quote from: chsn on November 14, 2015, 01:11:43 AMHaha dude u already asked me that, im the one who gave u the stretching instructions...."memory like a goldfish" as we say in Sweden 
Sorry mate, I'm like that with names
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