Thanks to the comments in this forum recently I am coming to believe that, for me, therapy has had aspects of being a cult. It would have been very difficult to consider that without some support. I was taught to drink the Kool-Aid in my family of origin and then transferred that to therapy 50+ years ago. Getting away from my family for 11 months when I was a teenager in a psych hospital may have saved my life, but going somewhere where I was loved and appreciated might even have done even more.