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Old Sep 17, 2015, 01:13 PM
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accountable to my therapist no, she cant be here with me 100 percent of the time . it is up to me to decide to follow my treatment plans or not, it is not up to my therapist what I can and cant do outside of therapy or during therapy. she can if she wishes say ok you dont want to follow my treatment plans so I guess we are done, but she isnt the one making the choices of why I do things in therapy or not and she doesnt hold me accountable if I do something that goes against what she believes. for example recently she made a suggestion and I said no to her, i would not do that. she then asked me to tell her my logic on that. I did and she said Id rather you did this my way and I said thanks for your opinion. she laughed and said bang (meaning she cant hold a gun to my head and force me, that only I can hold myself accountable for the choices that I make)

therapists can make treatment plans, rules and boundaries but only we can hold ourselves to those rules boundaries and treatment plans for our own need or want to be healthy.