I had a therapist once who suggested that my anxiety was the product of excessively high expectations, and I would feel better if I stopped expecting colleagues to do things like tell the truth. I quit therapy, and also quit that job. I felt much better after doing both!

So you essentially stopped having high expectations of your therapist and consequently stopped paying her :-)

Yes, and I suppose if I'd had the option of stopping the company from paying my colleagues I would have been fine with stopping my expectations of them as well :)

Why are you discussing a cold or antibiotics with a therapist anyway? They can't prescribe drugs.

Because I had a cold and she noticed and told me to call my doctor to get antibiotics.