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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your privacy will be protected except for a few instances:  if you become a danger to yourself or others, your privacy will be violated in order to protect you or whomever you are a danger to; if you make certain types of threats; or if you sue someone.

As to people looking at your records, yes, you are paranoid.  Not to be offensive, but I doubt that you are interesting enough for anyone to care.  [/quote]

No, OP isn't paranoid. A former friend of mine told me about the time he was waiting in the offices of a therapeutic practice in - either Rockville or Bethesda, I think it was - for a woman who was an administrator there, and decided to leaf through patient records. He told me what he'd read. On a side note: awful stuff. Amazing, the kinds of cruelties seemingly-normal people inflict on children. So, yes, it's naïve to expect people who lack busy lives and respect for boundaries, and enjoy access to patient records, aren't capable of handling those records in ways that would make patients feel uncomfortable.[/quote]

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