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I apologize if I caused you any stress, thanks for filling me in on the details. I would think some psychiatrists exist that are relatively fine with people having a panic attack during a session and escaping without 'getting them intro trouble' -- It seems there's a niche to be filled, since lots of people 'don't test well' (in a sense) while they might be otherwise fine in a normal conversation without the connotations. I think I understand your trepidation though, mental health professionals certainly have a world with a dark side in that if the employees don't care of irrationally decide things on too little evidence can wreak severe consequences on people's lives.
Don't worry about it. It's very easy to avoid talking about that kind of thing if I want to, but I tend to go on the principle that avoiding it makes the anxiety worse, and talking about it is likely to be desensitizing. Also note that I specifically volunteered all the information in the last paragraph - you didn't ask for it. (The others were not stressful at all.)
I very much concur regarding the state of the mental health profession - that's pretty much what I was referring to with my comment about this not being an ideal world. I just can't talk directly about that yet without really stressing myself out.
Amusingly, part of the reason I'm so interested in brain- and mind-function is that I'm considering filling that niche myself, as a side job. It seems like I have an ...interesting... path to travel if I want to get any kind of certification, though.
I took a tedious multi-day test for this sort of thing, among others. I wasn't really able to use the results, as I had by then already figured out which things I was three and a half standard deviations below my general intelligence at. I didn't fit the pattern for autism or anything else.
It would have saved me a lot of anguish if I had taken it when I was thirteen or so, so there's a limit to how much I would indict the knowledge in the field.