Thanks for the reply! I've been told before that I'm probably not a psychopath :P but sometimes the way I process information seems a bit... abnormal. (Also, it only becomes a problem in my eyes when I've been confronted/disowned as a result of my controlling evil ways [slight exaggeration]).

I see a Psychologist at my University's Counselling Centre, and the Psychiatrist supervisor for our Psychology department, my GP also has various certificates and diplomas around mental health issues.

I haven't been to therapy in a few months because we reached the stage where it felt I'd said everything that needed saying, and that I should try 'apply' some of the things realised. Many improvements, but whenever one thing gets better, it just makes these core issues more noticeable to me - and makes me feel out of control (which irritates me - 'Emotional Inhibition Schema')

I did email her earlier this week to begin appointments again, so I will proceed with that. Also - I think she'd be able to handle it, its more that she finds them destructive and unhelpful to the patient (at least at a University level). I have a few friends that began to 'act out' to suit their diagnoses, so I can understand that.

She's the best one I've had, had a few therapists between 2009-2011, before seeing her at the end of '11.

Hope you're right about the defense mechanisms, as opposed to the... violent tools for control that a severely mentally ill individual might employ.