I can relate. It took me three tries this year to find one that I could relate to.

The first one made me feel like a horrible mother for allowing my child to watch TV more than an hour a day, and the next one just sat there and listened with no real input at all. Heck I can call a girlfriend if I need that.

This counselor I have found is really good; the only thing is he wanted me to take medication too and it doesn't work for me, it makes me worse. So I do sometimes have this feeling like he wishes I'd just take a Xanax already. LOL

But I open up to him and cry and fret and stew and open up, so I think it's going to go well. I can see things more clearly now after about two months. The only thing is now every time I leave his office I have a crying spell and have anxiety for two days. I think he brings up a lot of stuff in me and I don't always know what to do with it after leaving his office. I have to go back to my "real" life which means running a business, and caring for two small kids and a sick husband, and I think part of me doesn't want to leave!