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Old May 08, 2021, 12:52 PM
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Originally Posted by SarahSweden View Post
. . .I asked for someone else to talk to, just temporarely. . .

Itīs kind of an unspoken "rule" that you canīt end it with the counselor or therapist you have been allocated, if you do youīll risk being cut off from the facility as they then see it as the patient "said no to treatment".
From what you have written here, you have been having difficulties with this counselor for some time. If it were therapy, people could say you were "stuck". It also seem like this counselor hasn't had anything much to offer to help you -- or the two of you -- through these difficulties. Perhaps that is more than she is trained to do?

Nevertheless. . .I don't see you as saying "no" to treatment. You have asked for someone else to talk to, at least temporarily.

An "unspoken rule" is. . .confusing to people, to say the least. Since it is a public health facility, it seems to me like it is only fair that you have some explicit rules, from someone, if they are going to terminate you.

If you don't hear from them early next week, I would encourage you to follow up with your request to see somebody else temporarily. Or, if they terminate you, I would encourage you to ask to speak to your psychiatrist again or perhaps the director of the facility, to get an explicit reason why they are letting you go. It may be difficult to read or to hear, but especially if any of their reasons are NOT sound and if they did not make their rules explicit to you FROM THE BEGINNING (as it sounds like may be the case) then perhaps there may be some kind of recourse, somewhere, if you want it. Perhaps a government ombudsman somewhere in the system. Or maybe somewhere outside it.

Wishing you the best!! I hope, of course, that they do allocate you somebody else to talk to and that, eventually, they offer you some treatment that will actually help!
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