But you have no idea what my position is. I shared with you only a fraction of the picture. This is one of the things that drove me from therapy -- everyone so eager to solve other people's problems, even with only scant knowledge and understanding. I see it replicated on PC. How is this healthy?

I never said any of those things. I simply raised the questions. However you did say that therapy is helpful to most people, but i am unaware of any way to validate that. My feelings are not important and my own therapy experiences are not very interesting. My perspective has as much to do with reading books and blogs and forums like this. My own destructive therapy was certainly revealing but more so was the way the next dozen therapists responded to me when i said their colleague traumatized me. A sort of informal study into how honest and forthright the biz is. Grade: D-

I dont mean to be hostile because we obviously share some common perspective and i agree with some of what you sau, but from my point of view it is dangerous to interpret another's deepest s**t.