I've just submitted a similar question to the "Ask a Therapist" section... but I decided I wanted the opinion of the community as well. I'm sure there are those of you out there who have struggled with this, and if so, perhaps the experience of another will help me with mine. So, here it goes:

My biological father, Darrell, was abusive. It was made up of both physical and verbal abuse. Whenever I threw a fit, he'd hold me down and scream at me, refusing to get up until I calmed down.

I need therapy, I know. I've tried it... tried the regular sessions. It's fine, as long as I don't have to talk about him--about Darrell.

So I'm wondering if there's anybody else out there, who had something they really needed to sort through--some traumatic event they experienced--but wasn't really ready to talk about it. So if this happened to you, what did you do? When were you finally ready for therapy? How did you prepare yourself... or work up the courage to go?

Thanks.