1. There is a lot that holds us back from ______________ psychotherapy.

2. There is the idea that you have to be a little ______________

3. or harbour some huge and strange problem
4. to go and see a ______________.
5. It can be hard to see that ______________ isnt in fact
6. for the select, ______________ few,
7. its for ______________.
8. Because, actually its entirely ordinary
9. to be rather ______________,
10. a bit ______________,
11. and sometimes challenged by relationships,
12. ______________ life,
13. and the direction of your ______________.
14. So really, the only qualification for going to therapy
15. is to be a ______________human being.
16. There is also the worry about the ______________of it all.
17. It will be you and someone youve never ______________,
18. to ______________ youre expected to divulge nothing less than
19. your inner ______________.
20. Why not talk to a ______________?
21. Well, firstly, because ______________arent properly trained
22. to listen.
23. As one would have noticed,
24. they ______________, a lot.
25. And secondly, because its sometimes easier
26. to tell someone who has no prior knowledge
27. or ______________of you
28. the big and important things about who you are.
29. Furthermore,
30. ______________ are the last people ever to judge.
31. Their concept of a normal human being
32. is far more ______________than that held by society at large.
33. They know how unusual and ______________we are,
34. especially around sex and anxiety.
35. Their whole training
36. takes them into the recesses of their own and others ______________.
37. They know how surprising we can all be.
38. It doesnt frighten them - it intrigues and ______________them.
39. Thats why they became ______________in the first place.
40. They are in the end,
41. interested in ______________ ______________,
42. that means, in helping out.
43. Then theres the cost.
44. Isnt it all a ______________?
45. It might be the price of going out for ______________with friends,
46. which is both a lot, and not so much.
47. It really just depends on the ______________you place on it.
48. This is the crux of it:
49. Therapy is ______________,
50. because so many of our problems come down to
51. not having enough insight
52. into how our minds work:
53. What we ______________? What we ______________?
54. Why we act the way we do?
55. and are overwhelmed by certain feelings?
56. The goal of therapy is
57. ______________.
58. By talking a lot to someone who listens very carefully,
59. over many weeks
60. you come to deeper insights
61. into the mind you inhabit.
62. Patterns start to emerge,
63. a particular way of approaching ______________,
64. or dealing with defeat,
65. a recurrent, not very helpful, approach to ______________,
66. an ongoing thing with your sister or father -
67. This is the stuff of ______________.
68. Knowing how to live isnt an ______________,
69. we are not born with it.
70. Its a ______________.
71. And one of the places you learn it
72. is in the outworldly, slightly unusual
73. but in fact, deeply ______________and productive setting
74. of a ______________office.
75. It isnt a sign of disturbance to go to therapy
76. its the first sign of ______________
77. and of a proper, grown-up commitment
78. to ______________ ______________.