A different kind of resume?

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I've struggled with major depression off and on since puberty. I'm currently disabled because of it. Over the years, I've developed a pattern of doing talk therapy for a year, two, maybe three, and then stopping the therapy while I work on applying whatever I learned in my day to day life. Wednesday morning, I'm beginning the next era of therapy. Rather than engage another individual therapist, I'm going into an intensive program of both individual and group therapy that lasts for up to 40 weeks. I really have to get a handle on the shite in my head this time. Oddly enough, I really, really miss being able to hold a job. I am dedicated to getting well enough to work, goddamit! Anyway, there's an intake process, half an hour's paperwork, initial assessment, all that fun stuff. This will, quite naturally, require that I relate the various historical facts that have made me what I am today: lots of abuse, neglect, etc, etc, etc. This is what one has to do each and every time one enters a theraputic process, and I try very, very hard to put it all out there. How can people help me if I don't give them all the facts, right? Problem is, I'd rather go back and have my ovaries removed again, sans anesthesia. I'd rather have my sinuses drained via a Black-and-Decker'ed hole in my forehead. I'd rather suck dead dinosaur di-ck. I'd rather fellate the entire Chinese Army. Well... maybe not the WHOLE army....! Besides being a major drag to talk about, this shite hurts! Sometimes I can be clinical, for the first meeting, but mostly it feels like ripping my guts out with a hot pitchfork. I know, I survived it, it can't hurt me any more than I let it, it's only the past, blah, blah, blah. I get all that... it just doesn't help that much. SO, I was thinking about creating my own dysfunctional "resume" to offer new mental health folks. Or maybe, write it more like a narrative, with prologue, cast of characters, etc. Any coherent accounting will do, just so I don't have to say all this shite again! If I can't sleep tonight, I'm definitely going to work on it. I started it today, only got a paragraph so far. If nothing else, it'll keep me busy! Ain't we got fun?