The cloak of impatience (gray instead of black :-)

I was very startled when my T expressed her opinion that my stepmother was anxious and that's why she was controlling. I'm anxious too. I guess we have to interpret everything through our own eyes, in our own world-view. Your post made me wonder if it was you who had changed and could finally use your therapist effectively to help yourself rather than the therapists were all so useless back then. Just to send a chill up and down your spine; what if your therapist had arrived in your life 10 years earlier than she did? Would you have been "ready" for her (AND would she have been experienced enough/ready for you?)