I can't fathom that I ever suggested I might need therapy in reality. I do specifically remember saying that I could potentially benefit from therapy to address the PTSD symptoms etc. resulting from the way that my family's treatment (unfair assessment of the situation; undue moral condemnation and being blamed for the unnecessary - but understandable - hysteria and inflation of events to the point where the relationship itself was being demonized; an assault on my self-esteem and self-concept as I was internally coming to grips with being evicted and excluded from extended family, loss of treasured relationships, etc., and not being offered any space to mourn any of that but instead being insulted about it; the emo-psychological pain from a breakup of what could, at most, and realistically accurately, be considered a 7-year semi-romantic and life-changing and dream-fulfilling relationship between a pair of childhood besties - and for subjectively unfair reasons) - IF and ONLY IF a therapist were completely empathetic / non-judgmental which, in today's social climate, is an EXTREMELY TALL ORDER. As such, obviously I'm better off staying safely removed from allowing any professional see let alone unravel anything I may be suffering through. And in all honesty, I can probably do it better on my own (though something is to be said about a second and objective opinion if the insights are quality enough). That said, I think the original purpose of mentioning that was to make an analogy using a hypothetical self scenario to explain a potential reason any MAP might benefit from therapy under actual unbiased conditions and why we might want to work towards creating those conditions. Change happens incrementally after all, and MAPs will continue to suffer from social ostracizing from certain groups and families at an ever-reducing rate until stigmatic beliefs are completely eliminated. (Hell, it even still happens with gay kids sometimes, and look how far we've progressed on that.)

~ Rain Bow Loom