Have you ever made your therapist angry?

If I have she never showed it or said anything.

Only once. I admitted a couple years ago that I had acted several times on suicidal urges over a course of months when she was asking me multiple times a week about my personal safety. When I told her this, a couple months m or so had passed since my last attempt but that didn't change her anger. She was very vocal about what my admission made her feel and how it could have affected her life had I been successful. She even told me the session after that she thought about terminating me, but instead she made me do a new safety plan that included a family member contact for my t to use. That was the last time I lied to my t, lol

What a popular post! Oddly, my T was straight up angry with me when I forgot we had an appointment and I canceled on her last minute. Straight up angry. I was really surprised. It was the only time. She did break up with me for a year and a half when I was an emotional flatline on lithium. But we got back together when I was off it.

My pdoc got mad at me when I told him I don't always take my meds with food. A real WTF for him. Who are you and what have you done with my patient.

The end.

I can think of two or three times where I may have been exasperating, but no I do not feel like I've ever made her angry

Yes - once. I never did find out why.

This is a rather common (happens nearly every session) occurrence -- usually resulting in her letting loose with sarcasm.

I don't think I "make" her angry though (I agree with those who said you can't "make" anyone feel anything) -- she seems to get irritated at the darnedest things (I say) and so, I think it's really just her personality and little to do with me.

I should say that I do at times enjoy her irritation / anger / sarcasm -- I wouldn't do well with a T who seems to be all milk-and-cookies, excruciatingly warm / gentle / compassionate etc. That stuff would drive me up the wall and also make me question their authenticity and intelligence (not necessarily in that order).

ETA: I used irritation and anger interchangeably -- so, I'd say it's irritation rather than real anger.

Yes, I'm sure i have made him angry, even though he doesn't admit it. Last therapist told me of one time i made him angry. Although frustration and irritation are forms of anger too.

It's hard to believe anyone could work with a therapist for years without the therapist ever getting angry. Possible but unlikely. Maybe some therapists distant themselves from their clients that much so that they don't get affected?

Yes, when I do something stupid with SI, or behave in a way she considers "acting out".

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I absolutely detest the term "acting out." I'm sure my reaction will make t angry of she ever dares apply that term to me.

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My therapist has got very angry with me a few times. I think he has his own issues yet to address in his therapy.

I am pretty certain my anger would exceed any the woman could conjure up at that point.

My group co-therapists became sustainedly and deliriously angry when I told the psychologist treatment was harmful and wanted to leave. They used the termination period attempting to intimidate me into staying, saying that I didn't have any friends, that I had rage issues, there was something about me that made the psych social worker wanted to kick me etc. The psychologist, stuck in his theory, insisted that my feeling harm, wanting to leave REALLY meant I was on the cusp of an important breakthrough so MUST stay. All this took place in front of a mostly mute audience of nine other clients whom the therapists tried to win to their side. They were mostly silent except laughing at one joke at my expense.

I finally found the strength to leave.

I lost my complaint against the psychologist. The psych social worker discipline committee refused to hear the case because --I guess--wanting to kick a client falls within the realm of ethical treatment.

Nah-h-h... But they all made me plenty angry. So I quit 'em all...

When I was actively suicidal and I later told her in a note. It went
T: "You didn't tell me x,y, and z"
Me: " you'd hospitalize me"
T:"YEAH, but that's my choice"
Me: "you need to trust me"

She was quite mad at me for a while.

I questioned T once about the modalities he uses in therapy. he answered me and then I basically asked the same question again. I wouldn't say he got angry, but definitely annoyed. He banged his shoes together hard (ankles had been crossed) and said something like "Let me say this a different way..." I felt small.
I think he may be getting angry that I email him occasionally, so I need to be more mindful I think

She is very good at controlling her emotions in therapy so I'm not sure, but I doubt it. I don't say much that would make anyone angry, I'm not very confrontational or anything. I did once admit to lying about feeling suicidal and I think she was frustrated with me, but more concerned than anything.

I think I slightly angered her 4 months ago when I threatened to quit for good after the session I was in. I was just feeling totally hopeless, I really felt like my depression was so insidious that it was actually my personality and therefore not an illness and not treatable. I said I didn't care anymore and she said "DON'T DO THIS to yourself. You've had too many goodbyes in your life that ended too abruptly for you. If you want to terminate, we can, but ONLY after we talk about this over a few visits in order to end our work properly. If you want to see someone else, I am not offended, but I highly recommend that you stay in therapy with someone." I was not traumatized by this and it did not cause a rupture. I think her getting angry (although again, the show of emotion was not over the top) showed me how much she cared and how serious she felt my problems were.

Madame T was angry quite a lot. She got especially angry when criticised. Not good.

Thinks: was I the only one who ever dared to tell her she was wrong?