Thank you all so much for you responses! I was thinking maybe I was overreacting and that this was just part of therapy... But I really did feel like going online to look at websites wasn't helpful overall to me, and it's so good to hear others say they think it isn't productive as part of a session either. I feel a lot better now. Thank you guys! I don't know what I can do... I might be able to try and transfer to a different person, but I think they all will be LCSW. I haven't really got the money to go to a private practice, so this will have to do for now. Unfortunately it's the county department that enforces the rating system, so I'll have to do it no matter who I see :/ I do think it's a bit ridiculous... and makes me feel extremely pressured to rate everything very high. It's difficult, because I was already rating things higher than I honestly felt at times, because again, I was trying to be diplomatic. But apparently mid-range is still too low... I don't know. I'm still feeling really weirded out by it all. Blah. A day or two from now I'll have some distance from it and be able to think more clearly. Thanks again to all of you. I'm glad to have some other input, and to hear that I'm not being overly dramatic or naive or something. This really helped.

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