Using your metaphor: if you show your doctor scars and they start looking at your ear and check for infections instead, then you say "hey doc, wtf, I don't like that you are doing that right now, maybe we can check for that later, but listen to me, right now you need to look at these scars and help me with those"

I fully understand that you would like to continue seeing this T, and that is fine. As I said, in that case you should go to them and clearly state what bothered you about their response to what you said. You say they didn't answer the way you'd liked them to. So tell them, say "you insisted we attend to different things first" and that this bothered you. The only way to make your T understand is to tell them that something they said bothered you.

Also, I didn't say at all that you are trying to get around talking about real issues. I said that IF your T knew you really, really well (and you said it was a new T, so he clearly does not), then MAYBE he could say something like that. But that clearly is not the case and therefore it does not apply here. I'm sorry it came across that way.