Dear Innerzone, thank you for your highly intelligent, and RIGHT ON comments. I like the way you are able to succinctly explain what therapy is/should be, and what we bipolar bears can expect from it, for ourselves and our futures. It's hard for me to know what to do, though, regarding contacting his clinic about my dissatisfaction. I have already drafted a letter to the pdoc himself. I'm not wanting to be harsh. I was an independent music teacher for a long time, and got zillions of complimentary letters from the adult students and children's parents, and sweet drawings about playing music, from the kids. But I remember two scathing letters I got from mothers. One mother was upset because I raised my rates, and really guilt tripped me about it, yanked her son from my clientele despite how happy she/d been about my teaching methods and his fine playing. Another mother wrote a scathing letter because I wore a button that said simply "No on 12". (It was a different number, but the issue was an early initiative measure in the 1970s discriminating against gays and lesbians. That was the only time I ever wore a political button, but I foresaw the future of potential Nazism if the issue were to pass. That issue did pass in that community, but failed statewide.) Anyway, that woman literally screamed at me! She was a religious home-schooler. So I know how it stings and hurts to receive a scathing letter from someone a provider sincerely believes he's doing his best to help. Me writing to his clinic might cause him to lose his job. Any suggestions?