I feel a bit like a burden to my private therapist because I very often show up late. My time management skills are horrible. She always lets me stay longer, as well, and I can't stop her from doing that because the digital clock in her office is behind me and I forget to look at it and just lose track of time (terrible sense of time, I sometimes feel like five minutes could have been an hour and an hour could have been five minutes). She's constantly reassuring me by saying she lets time run over because she wants to. I also get a student discount, so I'm not even paying the full fee. That poor woman has too much patience!

I feel like a much bigger burden to my uni therapist, because her official title is "academic mentor" and I currently have so much anxiety about my assignments that I stop functioning when she tries to get me to work on those. So then she just has to sit there and talk to me instead, and listen to all my problems (or "crap" as I like to call it, which she objects to). I also email her almost every week, and she always writes back, sometimes extensively. I always tell her she doesn't have to respond, but she says she wants to because I'm "precious" to her, and then I wonder what I have done to deserve all of that. I also contacted her once when I was in a really dark place, and she really supported me through that, which meant a lot to me, but it also made me feel bad for burdening her with that, even though she did tell me to contact her if I ever felt like doing "something bad". So I know that she's there for me, but sometimes it does make me feel bad.