I don't know if this is how you'd describe it.....but sometimes I feel like I'm a teenager again, and I'm acting/reacting at times as if I were a 16 year old at home with my parents....I have come to an understanding that this feeling is actually helpful in making me aware of how I have carried within me somehow the deeply imprinted emotional reactions of a sad, scared teenager whenever I am faced with someone who does have authority/power over me in some ways, and that it's good to deal with it in a controlled environment. It is like a sort of defiance....but it was something I put on growing up as part of my protective armor, a way to have control when much else was out of control. Nonetheless, I find it disconcerting to find myself feeling and reacting like that in session at times! I mean, my T is only 6 years older than me....and like she said, 'I'm not your mother, and neither do I see you as acting like a childish brat!'