Thank you, @sunnyflower, for sharing your therapist's remarks; they are certainly "thought worthy". And what you post , that " We all walk through many fires here on Earth in this lifetime. We all have different human endurance thresholds and mental health thresholds." is so true as well. My sil lost both parents within a yr of each other in high school. I shall always value his response when asked how he managed to survive and then work his way through college and beyond: "It isn't the tragedy that happens to us but how we choose to deal with it that matters most".