Hi Splintered, welcome to PC. What you are explaining sounds normal. We go to therapy because we have issues to work on and these issues we had been coping with the best that we could before coming to therapy. Well, you get to therapy and break them open and start working on them. This sort of throws how you have been coping with them (denial and ignoring most likely) into disarray. It is like moving from an unhealthy world into a healthy world. Having supports and others in your life is healthy. Working on this eventually would be really good.