Invalidated by my therapist's approach

What she should’ve said was, “do you feel as though past trauma effects your current situations?” “does the fear of things going wrong stray you from participation?“ “does your current schedule feel overbearing?” I’m not a therapist and I don’t know the criteria. But I can see how the way she went about it can be very discouraging. Anxiety is a fear, not a manifestation. You’re not broken, your mind just works differently then others. Your feelings and concerns are validated. If your therapist can only see physical disabilities as validated, she’s not a good therapist. When people say that we can amount to something but were just “lazy” that’s not true at all whatsoever. Anxiety & depression is like having 100 ongoing tasks all at once. You are doing more than enough with the cards your dealt! More than even the average “normal” person, & I doubt that they’d be able to manage all of that!! What helps for me is making a schedule, sometimes we can take on more of a load then we should and it can take a toll on us. Establishing routine can really help and you can even start off slow by adding little things in then migrating to mroe bigger ones

That’s awful! It sounds almost like she’s blaming you for your depression and anxiety, which is total bullcrap! I’m sorry you had this experience.

I'm so sorry hun! Since you do like your therapist a lot I would bring it up to her. If she responds poorly or won't listen you could definitely start looking for someone else. But first express how you feel! If you do better writing instead of speaking you could write it out and send it to her