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Old Jun 21, 2024, 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by ScarletPimpernel View Post
L broke another boundary. This time she talked to my Pdoc without informing me, telling her EVERYTHING that's been going on. In the 5 years together she's never done this. Actually, yes, when she talked to my sister without my permission.

Just because you sign an agreement for your T and Pdoc to talk to each other, does that give them the right to talk about anything and everything? There's absolutely no confidentiality? I'm so taking away their privilege if that's the case. It's not fair to walk into your appointment and have everything thrown at you.
Scarlet, I had some issues with this, too. I had an agreement signed to allow ex-T and ex-MC to speak about me. Ex-T would always ask, like, "is it OK if I tell [then-MC] about x?" and if I said no, she wouldn't. I mistakenly assumed that ex-MC wasn't telling her stuff. Then, around when we terminated with him, he mentioned, "Oh, I often filled ex-T in." It made me feel betrayed--I though ex-T would have mentioned it?

There was another time where I guess I'd allowed ex-MC to communicate with Dr. T, though very limited. I thought when I stopped seeing ex-MC, that expired. And then, when I emailed ex-MC about something, he BCCed Dr. T in his reply. I only found out because I said something to Dr. T about his response, and he said, "Oh, yeah, he replied yesterday afternoon, right?" And I was like, "I'm sorry, what? How did you know that?" So I then revoked that privilege.

There was also a time when Dr. T told then-p-doc about something going on with me (I'd given permission), and she kind of interrogated me on it in the next session, which upset me. I think I then ended there ability to talk, after telling Dr. T it bothered me that he hadn't let me know.

There's also an option on the forms to say they can only communicate about a very specific thing. So you could possibly only let your p-doc and L communicate about your medication, for example. Or just remove their ability to communicate entirely, if that will feel better.
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