Syra, I agree with the appropriateness of your examples. What I think can make it problematic and triangulating is the obsessive need to know, not based on any rational reason about one's own therapy, but for some other unhealthy reason.

I think obsessions can be very much like addictions in how they originate and play out. Addictions are often defense mechanisms of some sort, devised to distract, or cover, or get distance from something painful or uncomfortable.