> he can't promise to never do anything which might make me anxious... but that wasn't quite the promise he made. He said he wouldn't do anything to deliberately produce anxiety, ie anxiety for anxiety's sake. He had said he would not evoke anxiety deliberately... which is not the same. Lots of things would produce anxiety as you said, and lots of them would be intentional acts, but not acts intended to produce anxiety.... does that make sense?

no. i don't really understand. do you mean that you think he did what he did solely for the purpose of producing anxiety for anxieties sake? he just... i dunno... enjoys making you feel anxious? gets a kick out of it? does it just because he can? is that what you think? it wasn't that he was trying to show you that you CAN cope with a little anxiety after all? it wasn't that he was trying to help?

sure it misfired. because of how very intense your anxiety was. and because... you don't trust him not to be malevolent, i guess. s'ok. i'm not sure how much i trust mine, either.

can you get into a DBT program at all, do you think?