Who DOES want anything to be wrong with them? No one unless they are already very mentally ill.
Of all the various things we went through with Wiz, this is my #2 most hated one. No one cared about him, no one loved him, no one gave HIM treats, no one ever gave HIM presents, no one praised him yada yada yada blah blah blah.
At first we tried to reassure him. Then I discovered that he really didn't seem to "get it" when we praised him to his face. I started calling my parents or a friend to tell them what nice, awesome, etc.. thing he did/said and how it made me feel. After I clued the other family members in they did the same thing. I still think it was very odd, he sure heard criticism because he tossed it into our face verbatim (You say I never clean my room, you said I couldn't do X because of Z, etc...).
After that, if he went into the poor pity me I would say, "oh no, I never took you to the Children's Museum, I never took you to play at B's house, I never fixed steak and potatoes Diana (named after my aunt), etc... I used things that were in the last 2-7 days that I HAD done.
It took Wiz about a year, but it DID get through to him. Maybe it would help with your difficult child also?
I am amazed teh therapist stayed with you for that long. I have yet to have a therapist who didn't move us out of tehre after 45 minutes. She sure sounds like a "keeper"!
Pamper yourself this weekend as much as you are able. You EARNED it!