"Non-compliant" is a very distancing word. It means "doctor knows best" because patient won't do what he says. It is very top down and not in line with a more modern patient-doctor team model of doing medicine. I am not surprised your nurse might use that term when talking to your therapist, as they were having a clinical discussion and using the clinical lingo. But I am surprised your therapist would use that word to you, even if she is just passing along what your nurse said. That word should have been kept between them, IMO. Sharing that word with you was damaging, as evidenced by your reaction. An easier way to say the same thing would be, "your nurse told me you want to stop one of your medications and she's worried about that." To me, your therapist's sharing that word with you would raise a bit of doubt about her judgment. I wonder what she hoped to accomplish by that?

You are very clear on this--good. I guess it doesn't matter what your therapist or pnurse think, since neither of them are prescribing for you. Make sure to share this desire to stop one of your meds and to feel again with your prescriber. I think Ts aren't really qualified to judge what meds a person should or should not be on, and that keeping detailed meds discussions out of therapy might not be a bad idea.

Sorry the transition to new practitioners is turning out to be such a rough one.