Glad my discomfort could provide you with a modicum of self-enjoyment!

And thank you for that gratitudinal yet vaguely impudent reply.

Let me recapitulate: this is my best therapist (but do I think therapy is helping all that much? No, not really. Used to quite a bit.) . I did say I was unsure if she was good anymore, but I tend to think she's fine now. If someone gleaned this is some horrible, horrible person from this that's your own imaginative streak at play, and you may have misinterpreted.This is by no means a terrible therapist. I'm better now: I've simply written off that humanity is irredeemably unempathetic - not empathetic in the way I'd envision I mean - because of my ideals of empathy, and there's a freedom in that; I'd always suspected that humanity was garbage (with respect to a handful of individuals who may brush closely with fitting the bill), and I was of course right, but now I can go a shade further and affix my priorities to learning to navigate through the wreckage however dismally one must (be it being the dog that eats the other dog or swindling the swindlers--you get the idea), unless there's some lushly imagined, exoticised enclave out there I'm overlooking where the compassionate roam - frolic to and fro. At the time it was just a little disheartening to learn that she's not able to say things like 'I'm sorry you feel that way.' and so forth; I waxed histrionic on it at the time, but it IS a damper on an otherwise commendable therapist (by no means mean or disrespectful etc. etc.) That's the main drawback. And I still question to what degree a therapist should/can nurture. I may look for yet another therapist sometime, but not too soon. There are therapists who are more inclined to bend the rules a little, and that's probably more what I was expecting. I was expecting more of a 'friend', and I only receive that to some degree. She goes overtime in sessions, allows me to text her, and so forth. I'm told the therapist must have a positive regard toward the client, and while the illusion is present that she is cordial and benevolent, I would never truly know how the therapist considers me. I would have guessed it's a rule of thumb that the therapist MUST be a compassionate facilitator, but I'm not even sure how true that is now; not that this therapist is necessarily dispassionate, but there ARE, regrettably, moments where I'd like to see more sympathy. If it's written in stone I'll bring it up.

There is the further complicated angle that I experienced mild transference toward this person initially. But I've come out of that.