Emmarie’s Perseverance Series

“Well hello Mrs. Emmarie. How are we today?”, said the therapist.

” We’re, I mean, I’m good. You?”, Emmarie said nervously.

“Doing Fine. Thanks for asking. So, anything you want to talk about today in particular?”

“,Yes. Actually. I want to talk about what we can talk about. Like, what are the boundaries? Is there like a tmi basically? Like can I go too far into details or something?, Emmarie said with a shaky voice and trembling hands.”

“There are no rules in therapy as far as how much or what you can tell me. However, you should know that if you tell me you want to harm someone else or yourself I do have to report that and it may get you inpatient for a time. How long that is depends on what level of care and how much of that care they determine you need if you were to tell me that.”

“Ok. Perfect. I don’t want to do either of those things. But I have some deep and gruesome trauma I really want to get out that no one knows but I didn’t know if that was too far. So I can tell you that and go home?”

“Yes ma’am. That is correct.”

“Ok. Wow. Ok. So here we go…”

………to be continued