Thank you, sunrise, I appreciate the compliments. But I'd like to emphasize what PC has done for me, and may well have done for many others without people noticing.

I think PC gives us an opportunity to look at ourselves and what we do (and don't do) that we don't get in real life. So far (at least) real life doesn't give us the ability to review exactly what we've done, said and felt before. That relies on memory, which is very, very faulty (in my experience). Here on PC, we communicate in writing and the writing is preserved, just as we originally wrote it.

This gives us the ability, not even available with a T, to review exactly what we've said to whom under what circumstances. And I'm positive that many if not all of our tendencies to shape current experience using past experience show up here just as much as in therapy. Looked at in the right way, I think everyone's prior posts reveal just as much of their tendencies and problems as reviewing their transference with T. In other words, it promotes a "good" kind of self-consciousness that we can use in a valuable way to try to change what we do into something happier and less self-defeating.

Take care!