Reread my last comment and noticed that my comment to Liahona seems to go bit off on a tangent. What I tried to say is, that one more thing that is so very great in difficult child's sport psychiatric is, that he is able to make difficult child feel, that it is okay he has these issues. That they are not some deeply shameful defects that make him less than a man, less than others. You can't work on something you can't admit and you can't admit something that would shatter you to non-existence. difficult child's sport psychiatric has been able to make difficult child see those issues as just issues. Things and skills he is not (yet) very good at and which hinder him and need some work before he can move on.
Just the share amount of energy that difficult child has been able to release from trying to (unsuccessfully) hide these 'dirty little secrets' of his to actually trying to work them out is astounding. And while difficult child's maturation, and some other people who have supported him and some life events that has boosted his self-confidence, do play a role in that, his sport psychiatric has been one biggest contributor to make that happen.
