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Old Oct 22, 2016, 12:04 AM
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I don't understand what difference it makes about how a therapist feels about anything a client does - including suicide.(This is not an endorsement of any sort - just that I don't see what the therapist's response has to do with it)
Does the mere act of hiring one of them somehow give them a vote about what a client chooses to do with their own life? If they become upset that a client gives up custody of a child or drinks or takes drugs a therapist does not approve of or anything else - so what?

I think they tend to become a bit melodramatic over certain areas (csa comes to mind in my experience) but I think some (or in my case all of it from the therapist) of that is for effect.

Is this the sort of thing where people use the therapist for a reason as a safe placeholder? If it works - I think it is a good idea - I am just trying to understand it.
(Ps. I always think we are talking about voldemort in threads where he who must not be named is mentioned)
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