Her Grandma Demanded To Sit In On Her Therapy Session To Make Sure She Wasn’t Exaggerating About Any Of Their Family Members
This 20-year-old girl recently decided that she was going to start taking care of her mental health and go to therapy.
She realized that she needed to talk to a professional about her issues rather than just talk to her boyfriend about them.
Knowing he had his own issues, too, she didn’t want to add hers on top of his shoulders.
Her father agreed to pay for her sessions and made no indication to her that he had a problem with her attending therapy. Even though she was grateful for this gesture, she was a bit surprised by it as well.
But although it seemed like her dad might’ve been turning a new leaf on the topic, her grandmother was not willing to do so.
Her grandmother continuously ridiculed her for starting therapy, claiming that she could just talk to her instead and accusing her of spreading exaggerated family business to someone that they didn’t know.
Still, while she could understand her grandmother’s concerns to a certain extent, she made a promise to herself to think about therapy and mental health in a different way than her family had.
Yet recently, during yet another argument about her therapy sessions, her grandmother told her that if she was going to continue this, she needed to let her grandmother sit in on one of the sessions.
Her grandmother wanted to listen in and make sure that there were no exaggerations about herself or any other family members. And if she didn’t let her grandmother do this, her grandmother threatened to tell her father to stop paying for therapy altogether.
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After this, she tried to explain to her grandmother that she was not allowed to do this in a private session and that no therapist would allow this because of their confidentiality agreement.
Simply put, her grandmother did not care and still insisted on joining one of her sessions, whether she was allowed to or not!
“I told her again that she wasn’t allowed to and that I was going to leave it at that. I also expressed to her that she was crossing a boundary of privacy and that I don’t care if privacy is not a thing in her house,” she said.
After arguing back and forth about this for nearly an hour, her grandmother finally walked out of the room after she raised her voice at her grandmother, saying that there was no way she was going to let her sit in on one of her sessions.
Her grandmother then decided to call up her father and ask him to stop paying for her therapy. She received a phone call from her father, saying that if she didn’t set up a family therapy session for the following week, he would quit paying for her sessions.
Knowing how impossible a family therapy session would be with her grandmother, she told her father that she didn’t want to schedule one, telling him that if he thought it was a good idea, then he should schedule one himself. But she refused to use up her own personal time with her therapist on this.
Do you think that she should schedule a family therapy session so that her grandmother can sit in, or do you think it’s ridiculous that her grandmother is so adamant about this? Should her father continue to pay for her sessions either way?
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