In reference to TinyRabbit's thread on wanting to quit and the metapor My Kids Are Cool noted on horse training (a FABULOUS reference by the way...still mulling it over!) a crisis contract for me would feel like a very tight rope and I would flip out just like one of the abused horses referenced in the post. I might even go so far as to chew my way out of the rope, throw it at my therapist in a fit of rage, and burn down the the tree that the rope was tied down to.