Ditto. Sometimes I feel like I'm in graduate school so that I'll get a degree and be able to eventually get licensed, but I'm getting my real education from T and from interacting with other people like me, and from independent reading about things that I pick up because it seems like it might have some answers for me.

I don't know how therapists who haven't been clients themselves can possibly understand what it's like well enough to be effective. I've been through several therapists, and was not helped. I'm increasingly mad about all the time wasted with therapists who gave up on me or said I was good enough to be finished or minimized my problems or just looked the other way or scared me off by confronting me without support, etc.

I'm finally starting to make some progress now that I have a T who has been through it herself. It's still not easy, and I still get mad and fight and resist. I sure hope that most clients aren't as difficult as I am, because I'm not sure I would want to deal with me as a client. Or know how to. But I guess that's exactly what I have to figure out, huh? How to deal with myself.