If you walked into your first therapy session and your therapist said...

I don't know how long it will take to help you and I can't say if you'll get hurt more in the process. The whole thing could be a failure and you might walk away with all the same problems you came with.

Who in their right mind would stay when given the most pessimistic account of what could happen? We need someone to be the positive person in our lives to give us hope.