I have an odd question. I always tell my therapist what he's doing wrong. And yesterday we finally had a good session, where he listened to me and didn't argue and therefore making me feel a loss of value to the feeling.

Usually when I say stuff like "I've done so much and I cannot dig myself out of this hole". He'll say something like "What hole? There is no hole! Look how far you've come! Look where you were, look where you are!" And it completely goes right over his head how I'm feeling. Helpless and hopeless. A very profound feeling of those.

I've been speaking a lot telling him that I don't appreciate it. Letting him know that he doesn't hold personal responsibility for my recovery, so it's not like "offending" him when I say I don't feel any better. And it's seemed to work, because he was really good at hearing my voice today. He didn't argue with me. He just listened and acknowledged.

Would it be weird to shoot him a thank you email? I won't really see him till next week and by then my head will be out of it. It would more or less be like saying "Okay this IS how I will learn to trust you, not the other stuff you were doing". Or is that like me trying to take care of him? Because I want his self esteem raised? I really just want to let him know that I appreciate the new outlook. But will he just assume that when I don't complain? Or do you think I should make it more obvious that I appreciate it?

I know I'm probably reading too much into this.