musikcrazy, I understood when you said, "lately I have found myself wanting my therapist to 'rescue' me from the horrible thoughts and feelings". Sometimes when I am very sick and suffering and have an appointment with my psychologist or psychiatrist or both together, I have this feeling that I want to go in there and DEMAND that they give me relief in some way, make it better, take the agony away. It's understandable as when I am like that I am in deep suffering and as others said, that has gone of for YEARS and we get so very tired. But also, for me, it's about being immature. It's my sometimes tendancy the DEMAND things. These clincians are the absolute BEST I have ever had and they are working, I am absolutely certain at a rate of 100% to help me.

If, on the other hand, which has happened for extensive periods in the past, psychologists and psychiatrists are terrible in their standard of care and have not only had a neutral effect on me - but actively destructive, I WOULD go in and make demands, or at least keep escalating my requests for help and be more assertive.