THere is nothing wrong with wanting sympathy from your therapist. I would rather have sympathy than empathy which i find rather stupid and belittling. How can anyone really understand another person's feelings and know what they are going through? Useless and condescending in my opinion. I find it really invalidating for someone to pretend they know how I feel or what I'm going through. Sympathy is at least more honest.

Compassion is a word I use for what I would like.