I have this issue too, but not with friends - I have it with my therapist. Your phrase says it perfectly - he gives me the impression that I'm not dysfunctional enough. I suspect that my problems are just too vague - I have existential issues, feeling like I'm melting, not knowing where I'm going, why I'm alive. Everything about life feels random, down to my age and ethnicity, even my gender. Everything is accidental, mediocre. I'm profoundly depressed, but my therapist just seems to be at a total loss around me.

I keep asking - what do other people talk about, what do your other clients give you? He can't say anything about that, so he just stares at me with his frozen face. He's become pretty hostile. I think it's because I make him feel incompetent. He won't admit it of course. He doesn't give me $hit to go on.

(sigh) Terminating him tomorrow. Just have to learn from this. Any therapist who dismisses or diminishes me because I'm not dysfunctional enough for them, or makes me feel like I don't have the "right" problems in therapy, is a crap therapist. Live an and learn! But I'm annoyed at how much time I've wasted with this douchebag.