@RabbitsMum,
Sounds like the cyber coffee would go well with an invincibility star. The coffee makes you hyper enough to run faster, allowing you to plow through twice as many goombahs. 
Researcher. Got it. 
It is a shame that therapists are basically useless in this regard. For one thing, all the press directed at people in hopeless situations directs them to get "help" from therapists. Meaning most of the people in need out there are thinking that the therapist is who their supposed to hire - not an executive assistant or researcher.
For another thing, at least in my case, the woman I'm looking for would almost certainly be classified by the system as "mentally ill". Meaning that as we were/are both ushered in to the same system, it would ideally be a good meeting environment.
But as you say, therapists are just the wrong people to see in such situations.
@Sahara,
You raise some interesting/troubling points with your remarks about jobs. Yes, it might be the trendy thing these days to bounce around a hundred jobs like a pinball, but trendy doesn't necessarily mean good.
For one thing, my primary interest in a job would be to acquire a family; to enter into a close-knit "clan" with my co-workers. Thus, losing my job would mean losing my family. I know we live in this new, darwinistic world where everything is disposable and replacable, from the $1000 phones we replace every year to the people closest to us. But frankly, if a person is someone I truly appreciate, then they are not disposable to me and to suggest otherwise would be an unconcionable insult to them. Thus, a job and the family that comes with it, is for life as far as I'm concerned. Pinballing around through a sea of nameless, faceless, disposable nobodies just because "job bouncing is the done thing these days", seems like an awful fate. I know a lot of people actually choose to prolong their lives like that, but I honestly and truly can't fathom why.
For another thing, you really need to be careful with jobs if you care about making this world a better place, as there is a shocking scarcity of jobs that actually give people the opportunity to do this. You don't want to get roped in to a bad job and find that your committed to a course that does no good.
"I find it interesting that you want to be told how to think, how to behave and what to do. Don't you believe that any satisfaction could be gained in life by finding these things out for yourself.... you know, by lived experience? By trying this and then trying that... finding out what feels 'right' for you? Does this idea appeal to you in any way, shape or form?"
I'm not sure I completely understand you, but here's my thoughts on what I think your saying:
I want to be good. To be good means to give happiness to others, or at the very least, to minimize the misery you inflict. To give happiness to others I need to know what they want from me. Otherwise, my endeavors will be far more prone to causing misery and distress.
Even from a less selfless point of view, engaging with other people for personal benefit requires an understanding of what they want. The reason for interacting with society is essentially a trade deal where you do things for the society and they do things for you. Trade being the operative word there - they tend to not be inclined to help you out if you aren't doing anything they want. Therefore, you need to know what they want from you in order to maintain a healthy trade relation with them.
My trouble is, I can't figure out what the hell the people around me want. Nor how to engage with them for mutual happiness.
See, the matter is further complicated by the ethics of the golden rule (not the one @JoseJones was talking about 
) : "Treat others how you want them to treat you." There's an element of advertizement to this rule. For example, say I treat someone in a manner that is pleasing to them, this subconciously advertizes that I want to be treated this way, too. Hence, there comes a massive dillema when it appears that people around you wish to be treated in a manner that you would find deeply offensive. So, are you supposed to treat others "your" way, thereby offending them, even though you don't want to hurt anybody? Or do you treat them "their" way, pleasing them, but then inviting treatment that you find extremely upsetting? It makes the trade arrangement impossible to figure out when you can't possibly please others without advertizing a false set of desires for yourself.
Regarding getting personally drawn in to numerous singles groups: I know first hand that this is (no offense) a bad idea. I was actually involved with a group of people once upon a time and the relationship turned sour. I couldn't be what they wanted me to be, which made them bitter, which led to them harassing me, which frankly left me wounded and bitter myself.
I know for a fact that there's a great many people, perhaps a majority of people, who would love to not have to share a planet with a person like me. And unfortunately I am also intimately aware that there are many people who I would love to not have to share a planet with. Great care must be taken to insure that we don't comingle to any significant degree. Only badness can come from it.
"You said that your psychologist was doing fairly well in life; she seemed to be successful in her chosen career - she was on T.V. and such. Then why assume that she would be hurt by a single patient leaving her practice? Couldn't it also be a possibility that she would be happy to have one less patient and a little bit more free time up her sleeve?"
I have to admit your right, there's potential that she might have liked losing a patient to ease her workload. Then again, perhaps not. Perhaps she didn't want anymore spare time then she already had. Perhaps she simply had dreams of living a life where people would come in to her office, then leave saying "Thank you so much, Dr....., You made my life worthwhile! Your so awesome!"
I can't say whether she wanted me to keep seeing her, but I can't say she wanted me to stop either. But either way, leaving without a good excuse (of which I couldn't think of one) and basically telling her she was rubbish (which, as I've previously remarked, couldn't possibly have been sufficiently sugar-coated), seems like an awful thing to do, even if she got some much-desired free time out of it. Kind of like the reward wouldn't be worth the cost, you know?
"It's a kind-hearted approach on your behalf but this type of behavior, where you put other people's needs way ahead of your own personal growth, may not serve you well in the long run."
But what's the alternative? Aren't people who only care about their own interests, regardless of whether or not they have to hurt others to get what they want bad people? I don't want to be a bad person. And I can't say I know too many people who want there to be more bad people in the world. But maybe they do. I don't undertstand the people around me. I don't understand my society.
"The fact that you couldn't stand the woman would have sigificantly impacted on the theraputic process, because you would not have been able to genuinely open up to her."
I am sure that my distaste for my therapist interfered with the therapy! I spent most of my time with her trying to block out her poisonous words to minimize the damage she did! It didn't take me all that long to realize that she was not a person I wanted messing around with my head, so I spent most of my therapy trying very hard to stop her ideas from taking hold. I was moderately successful.
Thank you for your kind thoughts and wishes and considderate advice. And no, I didn't find it too critical. 
