I am wondering...could people ask their T's "what exactly is an emergency?" and maybe have some guidelines??

I am allowed to call T whenever I want and leave a voice mail, and I can ask for a call back...but I rarely do ask him to call back.

Right NOW, he has a message (because he is on break) saying "if you are a current client and this is an emergency, leave a message and if I haven't called back in 20 minutes you can assume I haven't retrieved your message and you should call 911" - so right now, I get that an "emergency" is something I would actually call 911 about. Pretty serious stuff. I can still leave a message just to blah, blah, blah at his voice mail and he'll call back when the break is over or I'll just talk to him in session.

I DO think it would be helpful if when the boundary of "call in an emergency" is given, there are some guidelines about what they consider an emergency. I know I would be GRILLING my T on that "well, if my dog dies is it an emergency? what if I'm really really sad? what if I have a flashback? what if my kids make me crazy and I have to lock myself in my room? what if? what if?"

It's unnerving to not understand where the boundaries lie.