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Originally Posted by faith1983
I agree with WePow.. Would have been better to let t know beforehand that your friend would not be alone for her appointment, but that's great that you were able to step up for her also.
I have kind of a different opinion about it when it comes to myself though. I'm currently helping a friend who is in therapy right now but would not go in one of her session even if she asked me (unless I think her t is unethical or something like that) because I would be afraid to enable her with her communication problem and disempower her (like if, by speaking for her, I was telling her: "you're right, you cannot do it, I'll do it for you" . She needs to learn to step up for herself and therapy is the best place to do it in my opinion. BUT this is the reaction I have with my friend and the situation is probably really different from yours (depression is not one of the issues my friend has).
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Alright, what you say makes sense. I agree that we don't want to enable our friends... I think I was going with my gut feeling/senses.. (especially cus she's dealing with suicidal thoughts) that this is more of an 'intervention' then a casual decision to agree to come to a session. Usually, I actually wouldn't necessarily want to step in to much because I believe people should learn to speak for themselves but, every situation is different and some people, I guess, have times when they just need that. I know that therapist was thinking- dang-this girl is controlling of my client lol. .. but, i know truth.
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