<p>'And then came the session where I felt I would give up. I felt frustrated as I'd worked so hard on trying to speak but the most important words; the worst ones, had simply not come out. I implied I would not necessarily come back the following week and as I got up to leave the room, Pat said,<br> <br>'Try detaching from it entirely. Try writing it as a fairy story. Start with the words, once upon a time there was a little girl'.<br> <br>That ...