Deconstruction is the process of examining beliefs that were previously unexamined — often religious, sometimes political, sometimes familial — and finding they don't survive scrutiny. Those beliefs weren't just ideas; they were the structure everything else was built on. When they go, everything they supported has to be rebuilt.

Anonymous thoughts about deconstruction posted here are from people in the middle of that rebuilding — what it's like to lose certainty and have to construct a self from unfamiliar materials.