what is your most predominant and frequent feeling at the end of an appointment?

A mix of warm and cosy/understood and heard.

I appreciate the warm and cosy, but understood and heard is a big part of why I am in therapy right now.

I put "wishing I could stay all day" as that was closest to my feelings. Generally I felt sad and sometimes anxious that I wouldn't be seeing him for a whole week.

Once outdoors and in the car again I reverted to "adult" mode and was mostly curious, I think. I'd start thinking about what to address next week on my way home.

In part, but mostly I mean that being pushed and challenged is helpful too but not my therapist’s specialty.

I chose stay all day, but like others have mentioned, I don't actually want to stay all day. I just need a bit more time. It's difficult to air out all my trauma and then only have a short time to talk about it, and then have to wait until next session to talk some more. I suppose it's better than not talking at all, but it's still difficult.

I voted other. Lately, I leave feeling grateful for feeling more mentally healthy. Not that I don't have moments where I lose it (at home, not in therapy). Sometimes therapy helps but not always--those are the sessions were she understands/offers a helpful insight. My communication style can be confusing and occassionally boring so my goal during therapy is to communicate how I am doing in an interesting way. Another goal of mine is to focus on the present rather than ruminate about past traumatic events. I am trying so hard to let go of things that bother me. I want to live and let live.

That got me thinking and remembering that I didn't really know what I hired her for in the beginning other than some nebulous idea of "there has to be more to life than this". Maybe that's why my therapy has been so convoluted and why I'm still there almost 7 years later I've never really had a concrete overall goal. We come up with things like when i knew I needed a new job near the end of year 1 and I found one. But I never had that "this is why I hired her" kind of thing.

( Ihad to laugh just there autocomplete put "thong" instead of "thing". Therapy thong. Scary thought!!!)

I put understood and heard which applied to all except T3. After seeing T3 I just felt scared. I would sometimes feel warm and cozy with T2. And hopeful with T2 and with Tony the Tiger T.

I just feel very anxious and uncomfortable.

I am frustrated but entirely with myself. I never seem to be able to say or convey what I set out to.

hopeless, disheartened, frustrated, misjudged