Since the end of March I've been assessed for Asperger's Syndrome and ADD (I think it might be called ADHD-PI nowadays). The assessment isn't done yet but hopefully it'll finish sometime during the summer. Anyway, while I'm getting assessed I'm supposed to see another psychologist once every two weeks or so to learn how to handle stress etc (and then when the assessment is done they're supposed to figure out exactly what kind of help I need and refer me to someone who can help me with that).

The psychologist and I have had a bit of a hard finding a time to meet up since I'm studying and have quite a bit of mandatory lectures/lab sessions/seminars etc that I have to attend. So far we've only met up once. A while back, after having sent a few emails back and forth, we agreed on meeting up on the 27th of May, but I had to cancel the appointment when one of my lecturers said they'd scheduled a mandatory seminar for that day (which didn't show on the schedule online). After that the psychologist and I sent more emails back and forth trying to book another appointment but that didn't work out. When she once again suggested times that won't work out for me due to things at university (I'm doing a summer research program this summer so I still have a lot of mandatory things I need to attend) I really didn't know what to do about the situation. I emailed her and told her that I unfortunately can't meet up during the times she suggested and then I wrote "I don't really know how to proceed from here. My brain sort of 'freezes' when I think about it and I really don't know what to do now. Do you have any ideas on how we can solve our problem?"

I sent that email early on Friday morning. It's Wednesday afternoon and she still hasn't replied (she's usually replies quite quickly). I now feel like I've probably made her angry or something. I feel like the most annoying patient/client in the world and I feel like I'm a huge burden to the psychologist. The fact that she hasn't answered the email makes me very anxious. It makes me feel anxious because of the whole I-feel-like-a-burden thing and it almost makes me feel abandoned/like she doesn't care. I have no idea why I feel that way and I'm not sure I think it's ok to put that kind of "pressure" on a psychologist (do you know what I mean?) but I can't help feeling this way. Is there something emotionally wrong with me for feeling like this (except for the fact that I'm depressed etc)?

When I get the full schedule for the summer research program (hopefully on Monday) I'm planning on sending her another email where I'll simply make a list of the days and times in June that I'm available and then I'll ask if she's available on any of those days/times (even the thought of sending her yet another email makes me anxious though). Does that sound like good/bad idea? Not sure what else to do.

What would you do? What should I do?

Thanks,

neutrino

(Sorry of this post is a bit incoherent or something.)