I've always found writing stuff down to be extremely cathartic. I call the ink "black blood" where I can reduce the very worst pain into mere splotches of black onto a piece of paper. I've written many a letter(never posted) to people who've almost destroyed me in the past and found it very healing. Also to write about the good things...to remember things by. I had a very bad experience over a number of years of so-called professionals which has somewhat tarnished my view of them, but I'm sure there are many professional listeners out there who will not think that the solution is to either fry your brain, or pickle it with psychotropic drugs. You can always speak here...we all get it.