The truth or success of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.
Nobody wants to rock their own life. But on the other hand when your life does get rocked it affords you a certain level of emotional honesty. It liberates you to be who you really are.
One of the things that attracted me to Barack [Obama] was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him - he is who he appears to be.
Even in fiction I feel rigorous honesty applies. It doesn't apply to facts; it applies to what I think of as not telling emotional lies which is a funny business.
I think in all honesty the first place that someone in emotional distress should turn is their loved ones and then to use professionals...