Why Did You Become a Psychotherapist?

I can relate to a lot of what you just described. I think some of the part of the reason that we have become such soulmates is because we have struggled with some similar issues and some things different, but also grew up on the East Coast. My parents got divorced when I was in middle school. And there was a lot of, my dad seemed like he was struggling with a lot of different things. There was some verbal abuse in the family. And so as you can probably imagine, this is made for a challenging teenage hood. It makes it difficult for me to use my words to describe how I'm feeling in challenging interpersonal situations.