Rapunzel,
Thanks for the input. You could very well be right about the therapist. I liked him but he was way, way educated and I am just a simple gal. Not that I am putting myself down, I think he was a little to 'clinical' for me.

I live in a small town and am about 45 min from any big city. So we don't have a lot of options here. When I look for someone to help me, what do I look for? Addiction, abuse, ACOA? Therapist, psycologist, counsler?

When I said I recently realized I had been abused, it wasn't a new memory, it was putting a label on it. For whatever reason I never called it abuse. The therapist had to tell me what had happened to me.

Thanks for taking the time to talk to me.