I'm feeling down today and called a friend who elected herself, maybe not as therapist, but an analyst. All I said when asked "How are you?" was that I was so-so. Then she immediately went on a diatribe about how I'm hyper-sensitive, that I'm an empath and codependent.

I told her, I'm not asking her to be my therapist and she said "That's good. Thank you."

There was some truth in what she said, but I was calling to just chat and shoot the ***** and lighten up a bit.

Now I feel like cr*p.

How do you pick yourself up after someone presumes superiority over you?

I feel angry, especially that I didn't tell her to eff off.

As an aside, I made an excuse to cut the call short.

Have you had a similar situation? How did you deal with it?

What should I do going forward?