When I finally decided to talk about it with others (here), after years, it was like taking my finger out of the dike--a sense of releasing pressure. There was so much I had concluded on my own but never heard or discussed with anyone else.
For a while I kept learning, and then I just needed to talk about it repeatedly to let it run its course. Therapeutic.
Now I rarely read "thread after thread about how terrible the GB is and how much of a cult JWs are...etc. etc.". I pop in here to make a few posts and then I go on with my life.