I have felt agonized in this one. And I've felt diminished.
This is how, ideally I'd like to see it. If the work you do with T. can make you healtheir, it puts more health into the world. And its a world where we all live and love, including T. So, in a way theres a shared purpose. And the same goes for any one any where doing work on improving mental, emotional health. So, each person who walks into that room, if the work she does is as it should be, is making the world better place for you, and those you love. theres a shared purpose, even tho each individual is so infinately different from the one before and the one after that walk thro that door.
Another angle, is its a challenge to us to hold onto our unique individual role we have in life, that no-one else could fulifil. We are still irreplaceable even when we feel like an idiot showing up, having all these emotions, relying on the one person, and then paying a bill!! : }