I was unsure if I should put this in health issues or here, but decided to put it here because it relates to my T and it can relate to other issues besides just health issues.

Has anyone had the experience of having to educate your T about an issue that relates to you (or a specific group you are part of e.g. race/ethnicity, culture, religion, or in my case physical illness)? When I was first diagnosed a little over a year ago, the T I was seeing then heard everything I learned about my disease pretty much as I learned it. It seemed like for a long time as the tests were being done and then after I had a confirmed diagnosis I was telling her everything I learned since the last session at the beginning of the next session. And I was okay with that because it provided me an opportunity to process the information and I really tried to keep from annoying my friends about everything I was learning (but my T had to listen ).

But now I am seeing a different T. I was doing pretty well for a while about the whole process of coming to terms with my disease. But now I feel like I'm back sliding in the grief process and will need to talk about it again, as I am definitely returning to the angry stage. I'm not so excited to learn new things about it, and feel disgruntled (don't know if that is exactly right) about having to teach this T about the intricacies of this disorder. I just want to be able to explain how I'm feeling without having to go into a big explanation of why this is the way it is and how it works. I just want her to understand. I swear we spent a half hour one session of me answering her questions about it. And I understand her not knowing. It isn't something that a lot of people have and it is complicated. I just want her to know already.

Has anyone else had the situation where they have had to explain/teach their T about something? At one point I just got so angry about answering her questions we just had to go to another topic. Since she knows more about it now because of that, I don't think it would be so much explaining. I'm just so angry over it all I just can't think straight. Not angry at T, just angry about the disease thing in general.