Hi stopdog. I know you weren't asking me, but I thought I'd answer from my perspective. For me, what I get out of posting IST is a way to organize my thoughts around what I experienced in therapy. It's a way to record it, have a memory of it, and to sort out what was the important stuff in therapy minus the fluff. Yeah, I could do that in a journal, but I don't entirely trust my parents not to read it, so it is actually more anonymous for me to post it here. So why else do I post it here? While I haven't really gotten responses on mine, what I think I would like is if someone had a similar experience that they could share, or if someone thinks, hey that sounds messed up that shouldn't happen in T, it would give me a "Red flag". I think T is more understood here than with my friends so when my friends ask me about therapy I can tell them but they don't really get it. There's "something" about sharing it here on a forum for therapy with other people who have been there, done that, doing that, on that same journey that makes me feel not alone in the therapy journey. Otherwise it's a very lonely spot. My friends and my family just don't get it. Here, I have the opportunity for someone else to get it, to understand, to encourage me, to support me, to question if something seems weird. Etc. Good questions stopdog. Thanks for asking. Kit