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Originally Posted by stopdog
I don't understand your point. The extent to which one allows oneself to be influenced by the person with information is one's own responsibility. The person with the information needs to understand they cannot control how another individual uses that information.
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The person with the information cannot totally control the person but neither can they avoid having at least some "control". Probably effect is a better word than control at the end of the sentence there, but it means about the same.
In any interaction, two people influence each other, and it's impossible to be completely conscious of what the influence is.
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Originally Posted by stopdog
I am not trying to stop others from being taken care of if that is what they want. I don't understand why they want to be taken care of, but they can certainly have at it if they choose.
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As you might point out, it's not my problem, but I think that if you try to understand a bit of why people like being taken care of, you'd be surprised, sometimes pleasantly, at what interesting and different experiences are possible.
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Originally Posted by stopdog
That a person may choose to seek help does not then obligate them to accept all attempts of another to help. Help may come at a too high of a price or be harmful(even if that is not the intent), or not be helpful despite how "caring" the offerer is.
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I agree with all this. We weren't talking about accepting ALL the attempts of another to help.
Also, I wasn't talking about anywhere close to physically forcing another person to take meds, as another poster wrote about. I was talking about the therapist using forceful emotional effort to compel the client to take meds in an extreme situation where it's very clear to the therapist that the client is likely in extreme danger if they don't take the meds. Obviously, a therapist can never be 100% sure they are correct, but I think there are situations where reasonable people would agree that an individual is a danger to themself or others if they don't take meds. The client can always choose to walk away, but if they are still asking the therapist for help and ignoring the advice they are getting, I think the therapist has the ethical right, if not responsibility, to be emotionally pushy about getting the client to take their meds.