You can have a face-to-face conversation with a friend, but how do you do that if you want to talk to a therapist? No therapist is gonna make an exemption and leave their phone in another room, not to mention, they literally write their notes into the computer system, instead of on paper.
And with lawyers? I just read about how Luigi Mangione’s conversation with his lawyer is being unlawfully recorded. How do you even have a conversation with your lawyer if you are in custody and they could just hide recoding devices all around the jail?
Sure, maybe they can’t use the evidence in court, but they could just leak an out-of-context audio clip to the press to win the “court of public opinion”.
And that’s why I can never do therapy.
I’m far too paranoid of saying the wrong thing and then getting kidnapped by the state and locked up to try to get help.
I’m mildly stable on my own at least
If patients couldn’t be held against their will and if therapists weren’t required to comply with police or report their patients way more people would be able to seek help.