Dear BothSidesNow:

Best would be competent psychotherapy for you, at this point, to provide for you the safe environment for you to express a bit of your pain, just a bit to start. You need to feel safe enough to not fall apart, to know you will be okay. This may not be that place for you.

But if you feel at any one time that it may be the place, at least in communication with me here, you are welcome to express just a bit of your pain. I will respond to you with empathy and respect. And so, you will be safe- in the context of this website- in communication with me.

You wrote that you wouldn’t know where to begin- a place to begin is the beginning, the young you, the child that you were, your first memory of feeling then the way you feel now.

If and when you can, that is.

* Will soon take a break and be away from the computer for a while.

anita