Austin-T uses the old "hurting yourself" thing, too. but that's because i'm super clever and cool, man, and have a gazzillion ways of hurting myself (and keep coming up with more!) so it's just his blanket way of making sure he doesn't miss anything.

suicide is a biggie, but so is cutting/burning/other forms of intentional self injury, then mucking around with eating (lack of) etc.

i wonder if the euphemism thing would bother you so much if they didn't do it publicly? i know i'm not the type of person who could handle group therapy, because i would be really upset about ppl asking me those sorts of really personal questions in front of other ppl. i think you're brave and strong for calling them on the soft language thing, but i wonder if them "dragging your psyche out for exploration" in front of other ppl might be a bigger issue? dont know how that sits with you - i'm just talking based on how i would feel.