You can be honest with your T, but you can be honest with other people, too. It's just that with everyone else, they can tell you where you can go with all that honesty. A therapist, in general, won't do this.

I dunno. The one thing about therapy that I don't like is how "unreal" it is. I can be all kinds of crazy with my therapist and she doesn't blink an eye. But it's not because of unconditional lovingkindness. It's because she's trained to tolerate bizarre behavior and control her behavior.

Insulting my therapist and getting an unrealistic reaction from her would drive me up the wall, I think. If she laughs when I insult her, why should I believe she's telling me the truth when she pays me a compliment or giving me advice? I guess I take sincerity seriously.