1) Fighting to get a diagnosis, no matter what pdoc told me. Pdocs told me more often than not how much diagnosis is unimportant and not seeing my future with a diagnosis etc...
I had one pdoc to whom I answered to this assertion : "Η διάγνωση δεν κάνει την πρόγνωση", "the diagnosis doesn't make the prognosis". Yep, this ex-pdoc's mother tongue was Greek, so we had sessions in Greek
His facial expression was "how couldn't I think about it ?" and facepalmed (for his own faulty thinking btw).

2) Distinguishing between being excessively anxious vs there's something truly wrong.
My GP planted strong seeds of teaching. Therapy completed it.

3) Setting and maintaining boundaries even with health care professionals.
GP has been my best teacher for it, and my current T reinforces such teaching.

4) Disagreeing with a health care professional does not necessarily equal being mentally ill.
GP was my primary teacher : her expression "we are not married with the specialist" was her way to encourage me to have the guts to change specialist when one doesn't do the job.

5) Therapy taught me that not wanting children is not a sign of being mentally ill, it's not a hallmark of stupidity and doesn't call for guardianship.
No matter what judgmental naysayer could say or imply : they don't have to deal with the consequences, neither with my health, when things go wrong. Their life, my life.

6) High social status doesn't immunize from delusional speech. Current T was clear about it last session.
Person's delusional thinking is not my fault and there's nothing I can do to change her delusional thinking.
(I had to deal with a politician's delusional thinking. Feeling so powerless was quite awful, and I feared I was not understanding accurately. I learnt later from other people who met him that politician was used with the very same delusional speech he told me directly. Turned out I actually understood accurately, politician was completely delusional instead)

7) Having brain injury doesn't actually prevent me from being fully capable to decide, no matter what stereotype can say. Petition for guardianship in my case would be absolutely ridiculous from T's, GP's, neurologist and pdoc's point of views.

8) I have no reason to accept bad treatment just because I suffer from something unusual.
I have no reason to accept doctors treating me as if I had intellectual disability just because I suffer from brain injury.
I have no reason to accept being treated as if I pretended to have a disability just because of my intellectual ability.
(stereotypes say "brain injury = mental retardation" and "intelligent people can only fake their disability for material gains". If MRI fake brain injuries, horses fly then !)

I realize that my GP is not a psychotherapist, and she always told me so.
However, her teaching was a strong therapeutic one that psychotherapy solidified.
Sometimes, she's been more a therapist than a T.