Hello, I'm new here and basically new to the whole process. After a few months of very high anxiety and snapping my husband and sons head's off at the drop of a hat, I decided it might be good to go talk to someone to get some coping tools or something. I've been to two sessions now which have basically been getting to know you type stuff...just the basics I guess. My third session is Wednesday and I can hardly breathe. I know my therapist wants to start digging, but I really don't want to go there. When I was 18 I went to college, locked all of the ugliness away, and moved on. I met my husband, got a great career, had a wonderful son, and all has been flowing very smoothly with only occassional general life bumps here and there. Now, some 13+ years later, I don't know if opening the "Pandora's box" is such a good idea. I've never discussed ANY of my negative past with my husband or anyone for that matter. He is a great guy, very loving and supportive, but I would hate to ever see any hurt in his eyes or to have him look at me any differently.

I'm on the borderline of cancelling the next appointment. I'm pretty sure I can "fake it" until I "make it" like it was before and go back to life as usual. Chalk it up to a temporary hormone flux or something and forget about it. I guess I just want to know if there's every a time, in your opinion, that therapy can do more harm than good by opening old wounds?! Thanks for any responses and for reading this novel!!