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I just cannot imagine it in any way, shape, or form. I don't know how either of us would separate one from the other. A possibly interesting tidbit... I was supposed to see my therapist early yesterday morning. She got ahold of me by phone and said she needed to cancel because she was sick. She sounded god-awful. She told me she hoped to feel better in the afternoon, and asked if I'd like to see her in the afternoon. She said she 'just' had a dry cough that wouldn't go away, and was having trouble breathing. Said it started Monday, then got better Tuesday so she went to work, then over night Tuesday night it came back.. cough worse and a fever. As a healthcare provider, I knew right away that she probably has Influenza. In the last month, I've taken care of two previously very healthy boys, patients aged 9 and 11, who ultimately died of influenza as a result of the aveoli (little air sacs, sort of) in their lungs hemorrhaging from working too hard to compensate for difficulty breathing. So as you can imagine, after hearing her talk about it being hard to breathe, my concern shot through the roof. So I told her "T, I think it sounds like the flu - and you've got a bunch of the symptoms that make it emergent. The flu can be deadly - please promise me you'll get in today to see someone," She sobered somewhat, and promised me she'd call her GP. A couple hours later, I sent her the "symptoms requiring emergent care" from the CDC, and told her to keep me posted. I told her that I realized it might be a little inappropriate of me to be kind of bossy about it with her, but said I'd worry about that later, because "I am just colossally selfish enough to need to make sure you know how important to me it is that you take really good care of my therapist." After I sent it, I realized that I had sort of put on a professional hat myself, and it was like I was (without my concern being solicited), taking on a role uninvited in order to urge the "person" within whom my therapist resides, to get my therapist the medical attention I thought she needed! It felt a little weird to me in a way, but I just did not care about boundary violations - - so intense was my need to make sure this woman did not neglect my therapist! But I cannot imagine trying to navigate a dual relationship with her on an ongoing basis. I want her to be my therapist only.
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Last edited by Crescent Moon; Jan 31, 2013 at 08:18 AM.
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