Thank you all for your input and validating my feelings. What really hurt me was that T admitted that the limitation of confidentiality changed in July and it didn't cross her mind to tell me because "I mention it just at the initial visit." What I just can't seem to comprehend is if the rules of confidentiality had change, shouldn't she have informed all of her existing patients of this? All the clinic had to do was send out letters or do what they needed to do to let the patients know. I wonder what the other patients at the clinic would think and feel about this. Especially the ones that are in the same boat as me.

Actually, I am in the states and the records at the clinic are all electronic. I feel like things are just SO messed up. I feel like telling T the next time I see her that she should consider telling her patients that saw her before July what the change in confidentiality is. It will either rock the boat for some and maybe save others from heartbreak. The choice is hers to make. I just hope no one else will have to find out the same way I did.

OT stands for occupational therapist.

T did say that she could ask the other providers that see me not to look at her notes but somehow it's just not enough for me to feel safe to trust and open up to her. If asking someone not to read her notes is all she can do to protect my privacy then it's not good enough. How would she know if they read her notes or not? All I can hope is that they would not invade my privacy like that again if T asks them not to but we can't control others actions.

I don't even know how all this is legal. It frustrates me to no end I tell ya.