ABSTRACT
Have you ever gone into therapy? If so, try to remember why, and how that felt. Many people enter therapy when there is a threat of failure to a major relationship, but there may be many other sources of distress that cause them to seek help. The person’s behaviors have often pushed some outside party to insist that “they need help.” Can you remember filling out that first questionnaire in the waiting room? Wondering if the therapist was going to like you? If you could even have a prayer of explaining your coiled insides to another human being in depth? If they would hurt you, shame you, not care, or indicate by word or even slight shoulder shrug that your issues didn’t matter? Or if they would rapidly blame you for whatever the current crisis was?
