I suspect there could be a gulf, maybe even an enormous one, between how some therapists consider a difficult client and how clients see themselves.

The therapist called me a "difficult case" in the rebuttal to the case I filed. Yeah, I was difficult in quietly telling the co-therapists that treatment was unhelpful and I wanted to leave. I followed every rule, took my turn, supported other members, was even-tempered to therapists and group, substance free, non-destructive and employed. Yet to read the therapist's affidavit, I was some kind of large-looming raging, irrational monster.

"Difficult" here seems a concealment of the co-therapists'...difficulties.

I wish I'd been far more "difficult." I wish I'd asked a lot more questions and not accepted recommendations against my better judgment.