✨People have asked me — why did I start therapy…✨

The Right Therapy — My Journey in Journals

This afternoon in between some paperwork for my patients and arranging documents for Dad’s upcoming laproscopic cholecystectomy (gall bladder) surgery, I landed up cataloging my therapy journals chronologically. And then I put together this entire entry!

Journal Entry — 5th November 2025, 9:17 AM – 9:50 AM

People have asked me — why did I start therapy… Mostly because I was tired of muscling through emotions that asked me to talk to them while I silenced and worked my way out of it, only to coil back into loneliness at night in the moments of solitude…
I’ve often referred to myself as a dreamer — because my neurodivergence and hyperactive imagination as a queer kid always found safe haven in the world of self-conjured fiction.
When the outside world felt unfit to fit in… here was a world just perfect for me to fit. I was the protagonist. I was the creator.

Note — 10th November 2025, 4:35 PM

In September 2024, as I watched myself sink again into the familiar abyss of heartbreak! That’s when I decided to seek help before I fell apart AGAIN! I wanted a space that was non-judgemental, professional — someone who’d know my story from the start, but not me from the past.

Not a friend. Not a mentor. Not a guide.
Someone who would listen without the weight of affection or opinion.

And that turned out to be one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I unearthed patterns buried deep — old wounds disguised as habits, unspoken insecurities and unknown trauma inherited like heirlooms. Therapy didn’t just heal me; it taught me how to hold myself accountable with compassion.

Paired with my daily sadhana, the grace of the Master, and friends who held space without fixing me, it became alchemy.
Heartbreak turned into poetry… Literally!
Pain turned into Baazgasht ✨

Now, these four journals — The Right Therapy — stand as landmarks of that evolution. Proof that you can build wholeness out of fragments, that silence can become verse, and that help, when sought, can become a kind of prayer.

And perhaps, some of these pages will find their echo at ✨Shaam-e-Baazgasht✨ — 22nd November, Saturday evening — Kolkata edition!

Journal entry
10th November 2025, 05:05PM
— Dr. Krishnendu Chatterjee
Orthodontist | Mindfulness coach | Author