kacey, your experience may be different, but maybe not as different as you might think. i throw a temper tantrum and tell my t that i quit and that i hate her probably every other week. i get my feelings hurt by t, sometimes she just doesn't get it and it makes me mad, she's always late getting to her office (that's a big one for me),.... but i've grown more with her in the last 21 months that with any therapist i've ever seen. it's been so worth it. she frustrates me and makes me mad sometimes, but so do people in real life.

i don't think you have to always keep everything positive here. that isn't real life. and it actually helps me to see that everyone else has problems with stuff also. that i'm not the only one. i don't think i'd come back if everything here was positive. i would feel out of place.