I don't remember ever having a conversation about boundaries with any of my therapists, and it has never come up with them. I knew what their boundaries were fairly easily, not that they ever enumerated them particularly. Not sure how I knew when I think about it. I guess I can just describe them as people with healthy personal and professional boundaries that were easy to read, and apparently they could read my boundaries pretty easily also? Not sure, but boundaries have been a non-issue.

It did come up once with my pdoc, not so much in relation to me. It was the last time I was in the hospital, and he was telling me to please call him anytime I felt I needed his help. I told him I would if I could get past the gatekeepers on his answering service (they always ask if it is an emergency and sometimes it didn't really seem like it was.) His response was that I should just tell them it IS an emergency, that I had never called him at any point where it was a situation that he wouldn't have considered an emergency. He explained the answering service was doing its job because there are patients who seriously abuse phone calls, calling for things like med refills in the middle of the night, etc., but I had never abused the system and he felt confident that I never would.