I saw a new psychologist for the first time today (my old one isn't in the field anymore). I'm obviously not nearly as sick as I used to be, but she had asked me for a history of my mental health problems, so I was telling her all the stuff I went through. I was actually rather surprised at how concerned she was about it all, since I obviously considered it in the past. Anyway, my point is that I know that if you don't feel like your therapist is a good fit it's hard to get much accomplished, but I think telling her about your down times would be a good thing. She's not going to think you're lying, attention-seeking or faking, I promise. It's her job to help you with this stuff.

I will admit, though, that I did have trouble being completely honest with the psychologist I saw today. After getting my history, we talked about what I wanted to accomplish/address in therapy, and the thing at the top of my list was to get a handle of my tendancy to become kind of obsessed with stuff. Mostly, this happens with fandom-type things, but I just couldn't tell her that part of it today. >.< So, instead, I told her that I just got preoccupied when I see some movies or read certain books or whatnot. The details of it can wait until we get further into the topic. ^_^