My T and I were talking recently about how health professionals sometimes need to hurt their patients to help them. He said he sits with many clients and helps them peel back their layers, like a nurse would peel the dead skin off of a burn--excruciating. I don't think he likes causing people pain, but he also sits with them through it and comforts them. This is part of his job. If he wasn't willing to "go there" with people, to their most painful places, then they wouldn't get what they came for--healing. So, therapy is not a bed of roses, and there is pain involved too in the relationship that develops between the T and client. But there can be joy too. And healing. And other good stuff. No pain, no gain?

Squiggle, I very much agree that therapy is not for everyone.

Blu ray, I am struck by how you use the passive voice in your statements about your problems. I wonder why you didn't write, "I still haven't solved my problems yet"? Just caught my eye. Like you are not an active agent in what is going on?