Last session, I was talking about social anxiety issues, one of the most frequent things that I discuss with my T. Part of the way through, she said to me that she doesn't think that I'm mentally ill or that I have any more anxiety than is part of the human condition. At the time, I just felt a little frustrated and like I couldn't get her to understand my situation. She is always telling me that I need to accept myself for who I am, but I always think that I'm abnormal and should be better socially. When I started processing it later that day, I got very angry at her. It seems strange that I'm mad because she said I wasn't mentally ill... but I think the worst part is that she doesn't think I have any more anxiety than is part of the human condition. I don't know how to think about what she said; we've spent a good 3+ years talking about this stuff, and what now? Does she think I even have reason to be there? She said that I'm stuck in an existential way, and she "guesses" that it will just take time to sort through that, but that I am fine. I feel like everything I've been saying was minimized... Has anyone else ever dealt with a discrepancy between how you view yourself and how your T views you?