I didn't really mean that as a personal attach, it was just a philosophical point. And I just meant to refer to what I think the perceived social belief about therapy is. I think that there is a social belief that emotions are unacceptable, and that therapy is the place where people ought to go get them "fixed." I don't know that anyone here, in particular, really "believes" this, I just think that its an idea that is suggested by the way people interact with emotions and tend to talk about therapy (at least in my experience they do). I was just trying to say that I don't think its good for people's emotional worlds to be confined to therapy rooms. I think we have to figure out how to talk to each other about emotions, like people here do; because if we don't then a lot of the trauma that caused people to need therapy in the first place won't get resolved.

That being said, I do understand that emotions are not easy, and that finding people who are safe to confide in is a very big challenge. Therapy, I'm quite sure, is an excellent place to begin working through that challenge, an ought to be a guaranteed safe place.

Ok, I'm getting off my soap box now, and I won't be responding again, because I want to give people a chance to post about the OP, and I don't want to get the thread closed. Sorry for any misunderstanding.