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Originally Posted by ArtleyWilkins
In the older thread, you said you told your old therapist and she said it was nothing she would have to report. In other words, you are not a current danger to anyone, nor was the offense so criminal that it needed to be reported in any way. Your new therapist will almost certainly have similar take on this.
It was, in relative terms, a minor offense, and most likely more of an awkward teenage blunder.
It seems odd that you have stayed so fixated on this one event now for over two decades. I would assume your therapist will reassure you that you are not a horrible person because of this one event, but she will also delve into why this one event seems to be driving the status of your mental health and will guess that this fixation on this one error is a symptom of something else going on.
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You're right, it is not something she would report. What I'm more concerned about is that she would see me as a horrible person who deserves to suffer and she will no longer try to help me or maybe even covertly try to sabotage my mental health.
I actually didn't think about this for time. It just didn't really cross my mind. Then maybe a few years back I started to remember it but I wasn't fixated on it. Then when the conversation about sexual misconduct started a couple years ago I started to fixate on it. Then I stopped thinking about it as much for a while, then recently it's resurfaced. I have major issues with depression and self esteem aside from this, but I feel like this is making these issues 20x worse now.