Hi, stopdog,

Therapy is a cafeteria from which each of us picks or gets things valuable or necessary to ourselves and perhaps not to others. Me, personally, I get what you could call understan-ding or comprehension of what I've done, what I've lived and how it came to be that way, as well as how not to do it in the future.

But that explains nothing. The only decent metaphor I've found for what I personally get from therapy is from computer games. On most games, when you achieve a certain proficiency, you are permitted to enter a new and higher level of the game that you never even knew existed. Suddenly being let into that kind of higher level is the closest comparison I can find to what happens (after an awful lot of work) in therapy.

Take care!