Interesting question. I don't think it would be very useful for a T to tell a client they are difficult though, unless being specific about a stubbornness around a certain event.

However, I do think I am harder work for my T than a lot of her clients, though on the other hand, I think my insight makes it easier in a way too. I do worry that I will be too much for her and she knows that. She has never said that I won't be, that she will stick with me forever etc but did say last week that at the moment I am not too much for her. This was after I made her a card saying thanks for sticking by me and she asked if it was a worry for me that it would become too much for her.

I think I am making really significant progress but I don't think she always sees this and sometimes I sense that she is frustrated that things are not seeming to improve. She has never expressed that frustration, I just vaguely sense it, and understand it, because the changes are very small and internal but massive to me.

My T works a lot with children but also works with adults and I do wonder if I am the first or one of a few adults who she has worked with for whom the methods of her child therapy are more prevalent than the methods mainly used for adults.

ETA I do think she has the skills and patience to work with me, I just hope she thinks it too and in reality actually does.