WHY IS THERAPY SO IMPORTANT?

This quote from Diane Langberg, PH.D. who specializes in recovery and healing from abuse in all its forms explains why we need help.

 "To experience an atrocity like child abuse is to live the unspeakable. It is unspeakable first because its horrific nature is so staggering that words are woefully inadequate to communicate what has happened. Second, words fail because such an experience silences, isolates, and renders us powerless. How is it possible then, for one who has been shut up, alienated, and made helpless to speak, when the very nature of the monstrous event renders such speech impossible? The paradox, of course, is that in order to heal at all from such violence, one must learn to speak the unspeakable. What is too terrifying to hold for long moments in the mind must be remembered and reflected upon. That which is utterly impossible to put into words must finally be spoken about again and again. Not only must the indescribable be described, but that which so powerfully isolates one human being from others must be uttered within the context of relationship if healing is ever to occur. Why is that? It is because those things that the atrocity crushed: which are, Voice, Connection, and Power. And this is the essence of personhood. If they are not restored, then the one who has been so horribly crushed remains silent, disconnected, and helpless -- a grievous distortion of the image of God in humanity."

Diane M. Langberg,  "Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse."