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Old Apr 27, 2019, 06:06 PM
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I feel odd giving you this information, since I think it's likely to upset you. However, I don't believe in infantilizing people, and when I personally ask people what they think, I want them to be honest. That said, the therapists I worked with at a previous job would not have been of a mindset where empathy for the client would be uppermost in their minds if the client did what you did. The empathy would be for their fellow therapist, whom they would see as a victim. Their own fears of having their privacy violated would be aroused, and compassion and empathy for the client just isn't something I can see even occurring to them. They wouldn't assume you meant no harm, they would assume you were intensely infatuated and that such an obsession could lead to harm. Essentially, they would have felt very threatened and "reacted." I have no idea if the therapists I have known are representative of therapists in general.
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