Good point, Heidu. Role playing does scare me. I couldn't even do it in therapy when I've tried. That was partly because the therapist didn't play the role correctly in my opinion (I kept interrupting to point out that my parents or whoever it was just wouldn't say that) so we tried switching roles - the therapist being me. I couldn't handle that either. It made me too uncomfortable and I could not get into it.

I was thinking maybe I could handle it if we started with someone else, but maybe that isn't something we ought to try here. Sometimes it's easier to talk about things when you don't have to look at a real person face-to-face, and I think we are all aware here that we are dealing with real people, but if we did get into things that were too painful to deal with, we wouldn't be able to see when it was time to stop.

Wendy

<font color=purple>"The real problem of mental life is not why some people become insane, but rather why most avoid insanity." -Erich Fromm</font color=purple>