This is a tough one. I think the key phrase in the query is "forced". At the time my father died, which presumably would have been the best time to begin therapy, I was so crazy-angry-hostile to any adult who claimed they wanted to "help" me (really? then why didn't you?) that therapy would have been utterly pointless. And I was nowhere near ready or able to say out loud the things I had experienced. Not to mention that I didn't even know at the time that I had a dissociative problem so I was missing enormous chunks of time. Besides, I think I already had ptsd by the time he died. The only prevention I could have had was for my mother not to put me in his hands. I believe everyone has to come to realization and then choice in their own time. For the same reason you shouldn't force a flower bud open, we (society) shouldn't try to force therapy on people. All you'd end up with is dead flower buds and even crazier people. Only my opinion. red
