I'm sorry you felt invalidated by your T's response, Elkino. I can understand your reaction, even though my own feelings and reactions in the same situation have been different. For me, it is crucial that I know that my T would never send me to hospital - he has never had anybody involuntarily committed in 30 years as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, and knowing that is what makes it possible for me to tell him at all. He shares my deep distrust of the county psych hospital, I think.

Still, I have never felt that he didn't take me seriously. And that is super important. Could you raise this with your T, do you think? I'm sure s/he does take you seriously, but you are the one who needs to feel that s/he does. One thing I like about therapy, and that happens in no other relationship I'm aware of, is that it is perfectly all right to revisit old topics as much as necessary.