I really liked being permitted to email or write my T, however I used it very sparingly. I'm not really sure who retrieves the messages I send. Once my T had asked me a professional question during a session and I sent her a follow-up email with a document file attached the next day. In the next session she said the office manager could not figure out how to open the attachment. This leads me to believe that the office manager, receives, prints, and files e-mail messages. Then I thought, 'hey thats OK because the really personal disclosure I sent I snail mail within an inside envelope marked confidential.' Then I thought, 'I'm such an idiot!', the freaken office manager probably ripes open, reviews, and files all that mail too. I am just kidding myself thinking people give a crap about confidentiality. I hate thinking about how much access the office personal have to my individual patient records.

I would really like to send occasional written messages, it was helpful to me, but I've since stopped doing it. My paranoia got the best of me on this issue.