Feel bad after psyche session

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I feel bad after my session with my psychiatrist. He said I am obsessive, but he doesn't seem to understand that obsessiveness is necessary for understanding for me. He took the conversation on many twists and turns and I felt increasingly poorly prepared but couldn't articulate why I felt uncomfortable. On reflection, I realize that he took me for a ride (whether he intended or not) causing me to feel completely misunderstood. Now I'm afraid if I try to set the record straight he'll just call me "obsessive".

Your Psychiatrist will color your world according to how he thinks it should be.

I was seeing a counsellor (poor man's therapist ) for ages who constantly made me feel worse after we spoke. Also constantly told me I "pin too much on autism" instead of understanding that I was saying that to me, autism is the cause of the problems, not an excuse for them.
If it isn't working for you, I'd suggest seeing someone else, don't just try to persevere with someone who isn't helping you, thinking you "should."
I ended up seeing someone else when the first counsellor left, and so far they seem to be a vast improvement, should have done it ages ago!

I still feel bad today.

Are you intending on communicating this feeling with the psyche? I always told my old psyche when I felt negative or positive regarding the previous session, she did probe me on how I felt about the process and her approach though as she had to try several different avenues at various points to get me to respond effectively, so we learned to really talk straight on matters. I had no idea I was autistic during the course of therapy which would've really helped us both.