I have a friend I spoke to today and we hadn't spoken in a bit.

I told her about being busy with school, my upcoming layoff and the work I'm doing in therapy.

I told her about my inability to commit and how I can't put my life on the right path because I can't make a decision as to which way to go.

When I was discussing this I had mentioned how I had to explain to my therapist that school is my 2nd choice. On my list of life goals, I really want to start this non-profit. School is sort of a back up plan. In my mind it lends credibility to me where my experience in the field is lacking.

At the time when I was trying to figure out which way my life should go - when I was talking about how miserable I was at work, my therapist had said that once I got back into the swing of school I would be able to reap the rewards or something to that effect.

She went BALLISTIC. She said he was out of line, he's not supposed to be telling me what to do etc. I was explaining that he wasn't TELLING me what to do and then she told me to stop sticking up for him. She said something about him not following the basic tenets of being a therapist and that if he can't do that much he shouldn't be talking to people.

She got IRATE. This is a woman who has a passion for MH. She jumped off a bridge and survived. She's on the board of the local NAMI organization.

Does this sound like the most heinous thing to anybody else? I thought she overreacted and she thought I was minimizing just how horrible this was. What do you think?

What she didn't want to hear when I tried to tell her was that he's relatively new at this. He's still an intern technically but I feel like he has helped me more than any therapist I ever had before. I feel like that thing was a mistake, she thinks he's incompetent.

Your input is appreciated.