I saw a really great Jungian analyst--the real deal. According to protocol, I brought a dream. Usually that first dream is a big one, not big in the sense of complexity (mine was really lean) but it carries a lot of meaning for the work to come. When I finished telling her the dream, she said it had to do with X topic. It was not something that the content of the dream would have indicated to anyone who isn't well versed in dream work, so when I shared it, I had no idea what it meant. But when she told me, I immediately knew it was true and also that it was something I had never breathed a word about to anyone, and it's not something that's a typical therapy thing. I couldn't handle it, couldn't even talk. So I got up and left, shaking and crying. I never went back. It scared me that someone could have been so surgically precise. I wasn't ready.

There were a few others that I wish I would have walked out on or not returned to see, but not because they were too good. Unfortunately, my therapist radar was really wonky and I stayed with them.