I think honesty really is the best policy, there have been posts like this on PC before - so your experience is hardly strange. So you've just got to hope that bodes for a psychiatrist who's also dealt with this before, likelihood is that she or he has. Hopefully once you've told them you have something difficult to put across they'll try and be as open and warm in their approach as possible. I suppose you've just got to keep reminding yourself of your desired goal - if you tell them everything you can, every extreme, every worry etc they'll most likely be better placed to help you. That's the whole point isn't it? I hope you find a way of telling them, hopefully other posters here will be able to provide more suggestions. Best of luck all the same.