Hi Sannah,

Thanks for your response.
After saying that, my T did then ask me to describe the images I often saw... Which I did, and of course started to cry. They mean so much to me: the yard, the home, the neighborhood, the weather in that part of the country (much different from where I live now). But then I wonder if I don't put too much into these thoughts... I imagine this place as a home I can never return to. It represents so much. I just wonder if it would be helpful to try to imagine what this place and these images mean to me, what they represent to me... But my T seemed to make this sweeping statement -- as if I should brush it all away and be done with it, you know? What was my response supposed to be, "yeah, I'm just idealizing my childhood, let's move on to the next problem." Sheesh. It helps to write about it. I'm so confused because I don't want to "tell T how to do her job." But on the other hand, I know it is important to tell her when she isn't getting something right. I have often thought that if she isn't getting something right I need to explain just what she isn't getting right. But maybe I don't! Maybe it's enough to say, "I don't know what about this didn't feel right but it just didn't." However, even when I write that statement here I feel very wrong.