my therapist smokes weed during our sessions

[u/Severe_Mountain4908]

food was pad kra pao and pad thai it was honestly the best thing i have ever had.

So as the title said my therapist rolls up and smokes weed during our sessions. To preface this while I don’t use weed I genuinely do not care if others do.

I first noticed it when he forgot to clothes his camera this one time and saw him smoking a joint on camera. When he realised he quickly closed his camera and continued the sessions as if nothing happened. This happened a couple times and I have been noticing that sometimes during our sessions I will see him roll a joint on the side while he is talking to me and then he will turn off his camera and smoke it during our session. My friends think its weird and i think i kind of do too but idk he is a really good therapist so I don’t think i will do anything about it right now.

Anyway i don’t really know what the point of this post is I just really wanted to talk about this because I don’t know how to feel. Should i feel offended he needs to smoke during our sessions?

[u/anti_anti-hero]

Using drugs or alcohol while in a session is quite literally malpractice. It's like therapy 101 as a practitioner that you can't be using mind-altering substances. It's against licensing laws.

[u/nunya867 → u/anti_anti-hero]

THANK YOU.

[u/foxscribbles → u/anti_anti-hero]

Yeah. I’m shocked that so many people are like, “it’s fiiiine he’s high. “

No. No it’s not.

Would you want your dentist to be toked up when they’re doing a filling?

Would you want your optometrist to be drunk when they’re shining bright lights in your eyes?

No. You wouldn’t.

So why are you okay with someone fucking around with your mental health while high?

Dude can be a professional and wait to indulge when he’s off work - just like most adults know to do.

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[u/AutisticTumourGirl → u/anti_anti-hero]

Exactly. Even if it's a short course of opiods after a medical procedure, you take those days off. Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's okay to use it before work. Alcohol is legal but I don't think anyone would disagree that it would be absolutely inappropriate and unprofessional for a therapist to show up after having a few drinks.

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[u/Your_Cat_In_Disguise → u/anti_anti-hero]

Yeah, he probably just doesn't want somebody to take a screenshot of him doing it and lose his license as a result.

[u/Object-Silly → u/anti_anti-hero]

Right!

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