I'm feeling a little guilty, pbutton, thinking some of the junk I've been posting may be what's making you feel this way. [feel free to say IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU! to me now] However, having read some of the stuff that you posted on here before and in some of the other forums, your childhood was no picnic and I think that you have legitimate reasons for going to therapy. Even if those reasons did not exist, the fact that you want to improve yourself and how you interact with people would still be a legitimate reason to go to therapy.

Also, I will say that when I was growing up, I watched my cousins' lives and was convinced that I was one of the lucky ones, in terms of my parents. They never left us alone for days on end with no food. They didn't shoot us with a gun loaded with rock salt to punish us. So, everything is relative.

Oh, and my cousins? The ones who got locked in houses with no food and shot at? THEY did not go get therapy. Just because people desperately need therapy doesn't mean that they get it. Does the fact that they did not get therapy mean that I should not be allowed to go to therapy?