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[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ha, nope, because I internalise my trauma with destructive coping strategies due to being unable to afford a therapist, like a real man (or woman, or gender of choice, being fucked up doesn’t have gender-based borders)

Mine won’t, because she hates that shit at about the same level that I do.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Aren't the ethics rules that notes are only for the therapist?

Not even clients get to see their own notes.

That said, I dated a therapist once. And she was glad to share with me the notes on her patients. Lots of unethical therapists out there.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 8 points 1 week ago

that notes are only for the therapist?

They might think that they're doing so, yet still use onedrive / google docs. Ignorance - inexcusable ignorance if you ask me - but sadly not rare.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Law now says clients have to be given access to their notes, you can probably access them through a web portal or by asking. That said I do not encourage people to do so regularly because it creates the wrong kind of feedback loop where you're trying to influence the notes instead of following your therapist's (hopefully) guidance.

But HIPAA rules apply to notes, for instance the therapists I support have 365 HIPAA or better (self hosting has its own problems and most therapists aren't scaled for it).

[–] BuoyantCitrus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So I suppose I'd have no hope of finding a therapist where notes are local-only on airgapped (eg. no nic, never online) devices and remote sessions, if offered, are over Signal?

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Signal is not HIPAA compliant

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i am not singal simp but whatever HIPAA complaint means, does not mean shit from tech perspective lol

singal can at least deliver data encrypted end to end unlike a lot of these SAAS

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

HIPAA affects the technical implementation because the law requires certain features that signal lacks. Without those features, signal cannot be used for healthcare in the US.

https://www.hipaajournal.com/is-signal-hipaa-compliant/

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -1 points 1 week ago

I don't think you understand the law making processes within the us

[–] iii@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Mine simply doesn't take notes. We just walk and talk.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I am the IT support for my SO's therapy business and we've already reviewed and rejected these tools, and I'm expanding out to start to advise other therapists as well. So, it's not happening everywhere nor is it unnoticed.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Cool, so do we get to sue the therapists for HIPAA violations, the AI company, or both? "I didn't know" isn't a legal defense, last I checked.

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That looks EXACTLY like Backroom Casting Couch, I'm sorry 😂😂😂.

[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Even the expression on her face is almost as enthusiastic

[–] ChexMax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Jokes on them, my therapist doesn't take notes. She's not very good

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I never understood people trusting these quacks... back in my day a network of friends did this function.

sure sometimes gossip would leak but at least it was not recorded for the government and corpos to exploit.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Capitalism replaces friends with acquaintances.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 week ago

It doesn't have but it do BC we let it