Thanks so much, Terry. You're right about the secrets. I feel like I have had so many of them for so long, though thankfully I have been able to share many of them in therapy. This will be a very good step for me. I emailed my therapist last night and said that I know we'd originally planned to talk about X, but that I have something else that I'd like for us to focus on instead. I did this in part so that it'll be harder to 'chicken out.' So... this afternoon hopefully we'll talk about this. There is a little bit of lead up and I tend to go a little slowly at the beginning of sessions, but hopefully our 50-55 minutes will be enough time for us to be able to get a good start to this conversation.

Really, THANK YOU EVERYONE for posting and your support. I'm very glad that this thread has been helpful for many of us! Yes, I, too, never thought that I'd be able to be so open. Certainly not in a therapy group, this format is very good for such things (and free!).