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The problem is that on such a site as this, we have many members who are just learning to trust their therapists, whom they dearly need. Since there is no bright-line rule about how much a therapist can do with what ailments he/she may suffer, does it warrant scaring members here with such concerns?

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Well, IMO, yes. I don't see it as scarring, but as making one question whether the T is right for them.
Imagine working for months to trust your T, and then say after 6 months, you learn that your T is puking in the bathroom. All the trust has been shattered. Or your T suddenly changes moods because they are spending all night drinking so they treat you differently and you try to figure out why.

The point is part of therapy is learning better self-care and acceptance from T. If a T has not adequately dealt with his/her problems, how can one model self-care? How can one model appropiate boundaries and behaviors?

And even if they could, how ethical is that. Again, I speak to the oncologist telling a lung cancer patient to stop smoking, but yet the oncologist smokes every break possible. Ethical? No way.
Is the MD practicing, Yes. But is it ethical? Is the MD a fraud?