Soliaree,
I'm going with the "LSD experimentation" theory regarding your experience with the "WHATEVER" comment. I can see why you are very angry with that. No matter what voice inflection I gave this comment, I could not make it sound like a professional, caring response to someone who is expressing pain and hurt.

I can appreciate that your T may have been a bit behind on reading his emails. I can even accept the argument that maybe expecting our Ts to analyze/respond to our emails is too much to ask of them. My T sees many patients per day and is likely experiencing a rapidly increasing number of out of session communications. In order to keep her sanity and maintain a quality personal life, I imagine that she has to draw the line somewhere.

Telling a patient "whatever" about anything is not professional (in my opinion).

I'm an educator who has gotten a billion student emails over the past few weeks between sessions. I've only replied to a few that were critical issues that needed to be address ASAP. Basically students need to understand that I'm on vacation and not being paid to tell them individually what their grade was..how I calculated it,...bah..bah ..bah. It sounds like I'm being a b*&^% but you have to draw the line somewhere otherwise you're on duty 24/7. I'm sure our Ts are faced with this as well.

However, having drawn this comparison I must also say that --When a student reports to my office and complains about me not returning an e-mail. I would NEVER say.. "whatever!"

I also understand that education and mental health are two totally different fields.

Sol.. I hope you are able to express at least some of what you posted directly to him. He deserves the criticism and should apologize.