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Originally Posted by stopdog
But that is what I am saying - even if I tell a therapist I drink a bottle of whiskey a night (I do not - this is an example) - the therapist does not get to try and stop me if I say I drink a bottle of whiskey a night and it is not something I want to change. So I don't think it matters what a therapist knows about a person or how they found it out. If a client has not said they want to deal with something - it is off the table for the therapist. The therapist's feelings about anything are not relevant in how I see it.
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Yes, I agree it should be off the table. The dilemma would be if the client is doing something dangerous or something that makes their problems worse (like drinking heavily when depressed, for example). I'm saying the T is better off not finding things out because then there's no dilemma for them.