#TrueCrimeLovers #TherapyConfessions #FBIisWatching #TherapistTime
Hey there! 🕵️♂️ It’s totally normal to have different interests, even if they might seem a bit unconventional. If you find true crime fascinating and enjoy watching it, that’s perfectly okay! However, mentioning something like the FBI watching you to your therapist might raise some eyebrows.
Reassuring Your Therapist
Your therapist’s main goal is to help you, so it’s essential to be honest and open during your sessions. However, if you’re concerned about how your therapist might perceive your interest in true crime, here are a few tips to consider:
1. **Clarify Your Statement**: Explain to your therapist that mentioning the FBI was more of a joke or exaggeration, rather than a serious belief.
2. **Discuss Your Interest**: Share with your therapist why you find true crime intriguing and how it may benefit you in some way, such as sparking your curiosity or providing a source of entertainment.
Understanding Your Interest in True Crime
People are drawn to true crime shows, podcasts, and documentaries for a variety of reasons:
– **Fascination with Psychology**: Understanding the motives and behavior of criminals can be intriguing.
– **Solving Mysteries**: Many true crime enthusiasts enjoy piecing together clues and uncovering the truth.
– **Empathy for Victims**: Some individuals are empathetic towards the victims and their families, seeking justice for them.
Exploring Paranoia and Anxiety
If your mention of the FBI watching you stems from paranoia or anxiety, it’s essential to address these concerns with your therapist. They can help you navigate these feelings and provide support and coping strategies.
Building Trust with Your Therapist
Building trust with your therapist is crucial for effective therapy. Remember that therapists are bound by confidentiality, so you can feel safe sharing your thoughts and feelings with them.
If you’re still feeling unsure about your therapist’s reaction to your confession, don’t hesitate to bring it up in your next session. Open communication is key to a successful therapeutic relationship. 🗣️
Remember, your therapist is there to help you navigate your thoughts, feelings, and interests in a judgment-free zone. Keep being open and honest, and you’ll find the support you need to work through any concerns or questions you may have. Stay curious and keep exploring the things that bring you joy! 🌟🔍
I seriously don’t your going on any list for saying you like to watch bad guys get caught.
Your dad is off his rocker.
Strictly limit what he knows about the content of your therapy.
Don’t listen to your dad, Therapists have patient confidentiality and only break that confidentiality if someone is in direct risk, ie (im gonna kill someone/myself).
Plus, if the FBI is watching you, they don’t need to ask your therapist what you watch, they will just get that info from your TV/internet provider lol.
honestly next time he brings it up you just have to try to double down/blow his mind and say like “nah the therapist doesn’t matter, they already know because they track all of our internet/tv habits.”
Even if they are watching, the FBI is busy. They don’t have time for your ass. They got terrorists to deal with… or whatever.
Your father has some very strange ideas about therapists.
Therapists have a duty to report:
* Physical harm: Including slapping, punching, beating, kicking, biting, shaking, throwing, stabbing, choking, hitting, burning, or any other means of causing bodily harm. In most states, this now includes spanking.
* Sexual harm: This encompasses various forms of sexual exploitation, including rape, molestation, prostitution, or incest with children. It also includes any report of minors engaging in sexual contact with one another.
* Imminent danger to others: If a therapist believes that a client poses a serious and immediate threat to someone else, they are obligated to report it.
* Past crimes with potential for repetition: Therapists may need to disclose information related to a patient’s past crimes if there’s a likelihood of the same crime being committed again.
Therapists **do not** have any duty (or any reason) to report an interest in the incredibly popular, mainstream genre of true crime entertainment.
Tell your parents to put down the Fox News crack pipe.
Yes, we all live in an age where we all our actions are recorded.
Yes, your NSA has the right to spy on every citizen of your country.
Do they monitor everyone? No. If they did that’s all they would do, and about 30-40% of the population of the USA would do nothing but spy on the population of the USA.
The FBI may be looking to profile certain “individuals of interest”, but telling your therapist about an interest in true crime isn’t going to put you on any list.
In fact, they cannot and will not tell anyone about anything you say in a session unless they think you are an immediate danger to yourself or others.
With the popularity of true crime podcasts, do you seriously think that that puts you in that category? Bit of critical thinking here.
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On a related note:
TELL YOUR THERAPIST EVERYTHING!
Part of the point of therapy is that it is completely confidential.
ask for a source or your dad’s talking out his ass
That’s absolutely ridiculous.
You can ask your therapist to go over the rules of confidentiality with you.
No decent, licensed psych would even do that. They will — as she should tell you — hold whatever goes on in the room secret unless there’s a subpoena involved, and they may fight that (or unless you disclose a plan to harm someone. Not ‘I wish he was dead’ or ‘I could kill him’ or ‘I’d like to punch him’ but an actual, workable plan they believe you may be in danger of carrying out.’).
You’re fine. This is just a crazy old person thing. Your Dad is wrong.
No, you have done nothing wrong.
It sounds like your dad needs therapy though lol.
There is no way this isn’t a shitpost….
If this is how your dad acts I get why you need therapy. Tell your therapist everything including this.
Your father does not understand how cookies work. If the FBI wants to know who’s into true crime there are easier methods than asking therapists.
It sounds like your dad is still bullying you. No, of course this nonsense he’s spouting isn’t true. It’s patently ridiculous. Why do conspiracy theorists have to always make things so ridiculously complicated?
First of all–if the FBI wanted to track “who watches true crime,” (apart from having to have Steve Martin and Martin Short on their list), all they’d have to do is get the info from the cable companies about who’s watching their programs. They wouldn’t have to “pressure therapists” to “tell about their clients” who’ve “discussed it in their sessions.” Of all the ridiculous ideas! And there’s no such thing as “pressuring” a therapist. Therapists have strict confidentiality in all cases except where they reasonably believe someone is in danger of causing harm to others or themselves.
And why WOULD the FBI track people who watch true crime? True crime, and crime-solving shows have been one of the most popular types of shows, and before that, books, and probably before that, stone carvings, because people like to see good triumphing over evil. In fact, IIRC, more women watch and read murder mysteries for exactly this reason–to feel some agency and power over evildoers. If anything, it’s a function of how you believe in GOOD, not evil.
Now if someone commits a terrible murder, AFTER THE FACT, the FBI might go through their search history, to gather EVIDENCE AFTER THE FACT OF A CRIME TO HELP PROVE THEIR GUILT. Right? Nowhere is it “and the FBI ‘pressures’ the therapist”–if someone committed a terrible murder, the FBI would flat- out demand an interview with the therapist, as well as anyone else who knew the murderer.
I’d talk this through with your therapist, especially since you mention this is stressful. Your dad is trying to bully you out of watching a genre of show you enjoy. I wonder why? That’s the interesting thing here.
And yes, you can tell your therapist everything.
And lastly—you also do NOT need to ever tell your Dad what you say with your therapist.
I don’t think the FBI cares who watches True Crime. If they did, they’d have much more efficient ways of putting people on lists than interrogating therapists.
your dad is completely unhinged. this sounds like fox ‘news’/ q ano brain rot.
1- you have confidentiality w your therapist (see others’ comments for details)
2- no agency blankety monitors shit. there’s always judicial review.
3- neither you or likely anyone you’ve ever met is important enough to be subject to fbi surveillance.
4- pls tell your therapist abt this bc you are taking your dad’s delusions way too seriously and i wonder how else he may have misinformed you and messed w your head.
5- good for you for being in therapy and having critical thinking skills! you’re gonna be alright
If you are a danger to yourself or others, medical professionals have a duty to intervene. Otherwise, they have a duty to keep it private.
In either case, the FBI is not involved. The FBI only has jurisdiction over federal and interstate matters. In many states, a therapist could have you put on an 72 hour involuntary psychiatric hold or something like that; this has different names in different places. In Massachusetts, for instance, it is a Section 12.
That may involve local police if you are combative, but if you are calm and cooperative, law enforcement may not even be involved at all. In any case, it would be local, not state or federal.
Your father is crazier than you are.
Lmao don’t listen to your conspiracist dad. Everyone loves true crime; that’s why there’s so much of it out there now. It also wouldn’t signal anything “wrong” with you. What does signal maybe something is the fact that your dad said that and you’re looking into it so hard. Idk much about clinical psychology from my one course in it but that’s sounds vaguely like a schizophrenic reaction
I find it really cute that watching true crime is your outlet for processing past bullying
And lol at your dad haha, the FBI probably pay more attention to your Google searching of true crime shows (which is basically zero anyway) than the fact that your therapist knows
I’m interested in true crime and study forensic psychology, he’s talking out his ass. The list would be so long that it would be meaningless, and would likely be more a list of victims than offenders
As a therapist, you are not being put on a list and we also love true crime.
Your dad needs to remove his tin foil hat.
Sounds like your dad is the problem. Talk to your therapist about him and how to navigate around his paranoid thoughts.
Show him this post and IF he gets angry about it in any way, instead of rethinking things, then he is really the problem.
Your father sounds like a conspiracy nut. Ignore him.
True crime genre has always been popular and is experiencing what feels like a big uptick right now. I know so many people currently into it that it almost feels trendy. The number of people that the FBI would have to follow would be astounding.
Unless you’re plotting a very serious crime or recently committed a very serious crime, the FBI is not paying attention to you. Thinking that the FBI or government is spying on you is almost always a sign that you need mental help.
That sounds fake.
It’s more likely your ISP or YouTube history or something would be examined. I doubt it would be an efficient use of energy, though, given how true crime is literally a popular genre. I feel like they should probably watch alt right incel type web traffic if they care about violent criminals, everyone I know who watches true crime is an anxious millennial woman who never leaves the house (me lol)
Probably more likely I’m on a list for disapproving of Palestinian genocide thank I am for watching readily available true crime on Netflix. I feel like it’s probably just people not understanding therapy or hipaa or the law or true crime, really.
Your dad is a conspiracy theorist. He needs to use some common sense and critical thinking skills when reading articles online, it seems right now he can’t figure out what sources of information are trustworthy
Ask your Dad what shape the Earth is.
Tell your therapist your truth. They have heard it all before. They are working with you toward your goals.
Letting them know your thoughts and fears and joys is what they need to know.
Retired clinical psychologist. Worked with patients for 38 years.
Your dad is being paranoid. Talking about true crime isn’t going to get you in trouble. If the government was co concerned with true crime, they could probably easily track peoples ip addresses on streaming services. Is it possible that it’s your dad who is concerned with your interest in true crime?
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That is absolutely not true. True Crime is an incredibly popular, extremely mainstream genre that lots and lots of people have been interested in for literally centuries, arguably longer. It’s pretty common for serial killers, mass shooters, etc. to have an interest in true crime, but it’s also pretty common for serial killers eat bread, use tables, and eat indoors. It’s just a normal thing that humans do, it’s not an indicator that a person is violent. If the FBI was compiling a list like that, so many people would be on it that it would be completely useless.
Bro lol no one’s being charged for watching true crime God damn it
As a therapist I can confirm this is the biggest pile of BS I’ve heard about in a long time. Where did your dad read that article, some QAnon forum or something, or was it just some wack job Facebook post he read? You should teach him how to discern the media he consumes and to think critically.
Does your dad own a smartphone?
What a dumbdumb.
The FBI barely has time to solve ACTUAL murder… like literally only half of murders get solved.
Law enforcement is a job like any other job… you have to justify your hours for a budget. You have urgent work that has to get done…
They are not wandering around making lists of people who like mainstream entertainment “just in case”
If you plan on murdering someone, sure… distance yourself from that stuff. Otherwise don’t worry about it.
I doubt it. I feel like many people do things like Google “Best ways to hide a body” or “what does human flesh taste like” out of morbid yet very human curiosity or even “i’m going to kill the president fuck you come get me lololol” because why the fuck not/everyone got a rush when they were 12 or w.e
Making a list of shit like that is like suspecting any one with a middle name.
Unless you’re telling them about thinking you’re going to commit a crime or have committed a crime, you’re fine. Let’s assume that your interest is way worse, like being interested in kids. If you’ve said you’ve acted on that, there’s a victim so it’ll be reported. If they believe you’re planning on it, they also have a duty to report. If it’s a subject that you’re just generally interested about, regardless of how bad the subject is, it’s just a subject of interest. Worst case, you’ve fantasized about participating and want help, which is the point of therapy.
Why the hell would the FBI care who’s watching true crime? Did your dad ever say why?
When I read the title I assumed you were having paranoid delusions that caused you to watch true crime as a method to protect yourself and thought well yeah that’s the shit you should be telling your therapist. Turns out it’s your dad with the paranoi, ever though he might need to see a therapist?
No. Nobody cares why you watch crime shows.
Crime shows are one of the most popular things on tv, nobody cares.
I guess 90% of podcasters are on a list?
You definitely want to tell your therapist how crazy your dad is though.
The idea that they would get that information through breaking HIPPA or whatever and not just buying it legally from YouTube or your podcast platform is hilarious to me
That sounds like some conspiracy nonsense or like Minority Report shit. I’m going with not true. Does your dad see anybody?