The last T that I worked with, not long ago, told me that he found working with a client like myself to be similar to walking around where there are buried land mines. As I read the posts above and hear how much acceptance clients tend to wish for and how unconditional and gently reassuring they hope that acceptance will be, I can't help but compare how vastly much less I would be delighted to get. I feel like a dog hoping crumbs will fall off the table.

And would someone mind telling me how does it ever get to be alright for therapists to put ANY client into a category of "barely sufferable." I mean they don't do that to people in prisons convicted of heinous acts.