I had compulsive tendencies like this with last T. I think this is on the same continuum as the need for emailing or texting. Seems that therapy opens up pretty serious needs in some people, and they are then subjected to a rather cruel rationing of attention. As someone said, people naturally desire proximity to an attachment figure. An hour or two per week is at odds with basic attachment and attunement needs.

I would argue that this sort of obsessiveness is a product of the therapy process, as much as it is about the client's existing neuroses. In therapy the client is encouraged to take a bullet for pretty much everything that happens, but logically one could say therapy naturally spawns such behavior. Why pathologize what is perhaps a natural response to the experience?

I wouldn't reveal such a thing to a T. I might say instead that I was plagued by obsessive thoughts and preoccupations.