For me, yes. For other people, no. Gotta love those double standards...

I find it easy enough now to justify going to therapy so that I am "better to others"-- my partner, friends, future hypothetical kids, etc. What I am trying to feel, at last, is that it's ok for me to do it for myself. To work toward ultimately relieving my suffering-- that this is not selfish, but a very reasonable desire.

Like many of us here, I was an extremely parentified young child. I have generally based my actions on what would fulfill other people's wants and needs. That I could have my own--what??? It didn't even really occur to me. So I'm still working on the idea that therapy can be for me, and that's ok.