I usually start a thread when I am feeling frustrated or confused. I am often looking for others to share their experience with me. Other times I find it useful to just rant about this thing I find so horrible and baffling and get some reassurance. Still others it is to try and express something that I want to ultimately tell the t, but need (for me not the t) to have a better handle on it first. Writing here and responding to posters can help me clarify. Sometimes I am amused (at other times frustrated) by how many times on this board I am told to just quit when usually I am trying to figure out how to keep going.