How would you feel if you found out the mental health team disclosed your mental health issues to your family when you asked them not to?

[Anonymous]

I repeatedly asked them to not inform my family, I even told them if they did it would do more harm than good, they told me they wouldn't disclose anything to my family but than I found out 3 days later they told my entire family everything and now my sister has been messaging me a bunch of not so very nice messages including messages of her laughing about me having postpartum depression and wanting to end things

[Count_de_Monte_Volo]

You have my sympathies, that is truly awful. They’re supposed to officially respect your privacy with official protocols such as using contact information of your choice and how much to say if someone else picks up the phone.

[Asker]

Them telling my family about my mental health issues is not the only thing they did either. They were threatening to take my baby off me and place her in the care of my family, and they were going to have her around this particular sister who is not only messaging me laughing about my mental health issues, but she is also the sister who threw the bottle at me and who also threatened to harm me, which I do have the messages she sent to me to prove.

They even lied and said I was being aggressive because I was telling them off for even contacting my family. At no given time was I ever aggressive if I was the security guards would not have just sat there, the police who were also near by in the hospital would have came in. They even refused to allow me to take my baby to her doctors appointment.

[Ben487]

I would be upset. I don't trust mental health professionals.

[Asker]

I also don't trust them as I had issues with them in the past. It took me well over 5 years to finally feel comfortable enough to reach out for help after speaking with my doctor for months, and I got burned in the process.

[Count_de_Monte_Volo]

I don’t trust therapists. Still trust psychiatrists.

[Asker]

@Count_de_Monte_Volo these are psychologist and psychiatrist who contacted my family.

[Count_de_Monte_Volo]

Yikes!

[ImalwaysrightOK]

Wtf kind of mental health place did you go to? That's not only illegal, but unethical and wrong on so many levels. You can sue and it may even be a crime.

[Asker]

Public health. I didn't exactly go to them as I had issues with them in the past. The social worker misunderstood what I had told her, and she had contacted these mental health people. Them telling my family about my mental health issues is not the only thing they did either.

[es20490446e]

My family already knows that if I'm stupid is purposeful.

[Anonymous]

Sue!!!

[Opinion Owner]

Look into HIPPAA
They just violated it babe

[Asker]

Thank you. Will definitely look into it.