Thanks everyone, I appreciate the validation - it helps me feel less crazy.

It's so weird/confusing. I'm sure this guy helps some people. There are other things that he's handled really well. But, ugh. Yes, I feel like the way we interact, for some reason, his style tends to shut me down... and I know it's not JUST me, because I've had friends that talked in a way that made it really easy to open up and say more, you know?

t0rtureds0ul - Thanks, and sorry that you went through this too.

mindwrench - Thanks! I hope your next T is better. (And mine too!). It sounds like you are pretty good at noticing stuff like this and acting on it. I wish that I could be better... I sort of wish that I hadn't come back, b/c we had a pretty good ending last time. Now, I'm just sort of disappearing. I feel a tiny bit guilty about that. But, I don't want to pay to just explain to him why it won't work out - I feel like we've been over all this so many times, it would just be rehashing what's already been said. I'm still a tiny bit sad.

Cloud23 - Ha! Thanks! I thought about it, but... I really think we've been over this stuff so many times. In fact, when he said this to me, he prefaced it with... "I know you're not going to like this..." . I think it's just a really bad match. I believe that he helps some people, but I think he's primarily into "solutions oriented therapy" - which seems very much about solving practical day to day problems, and I don't think that's going to work for my issues, at all. Ugh. I just hate that... it feels like I wasted a lot of time/money and didn't really get much out of it, other than more reasons to hate therapy!

DelusionsDaily - Thanks, and thanks for the good wishes. I don't understand why finding a good T that I can connect with is so hard. I've seen lots of Ts, and had a lot of really crappy experiences.