Therapy,, when you say angry stuff about someone?

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I've been in therapy for 3 years at the same place. One person who has royally messed with my life is a former cop that I called the cops on in 2001. I got harrassed by many of his friends including them trying to frame me for not having car insurance when I was the victim in a car accident. I did have car insurance. I then filed a complaint against them in late 2006 and they have since left me alone. I've said a lot of angry stuff about this ex cop and his cop friends in therapy. I think I said enough that my therapist contacted him saying I could be a threat to him. I deliver pizza for a living and this ex cop lives in a neighborhood that I deliver to now and then. Several years ago I was on a pizza run and saw him plowing his sidewalk with an ATV. I was not actively looking for where he lived. My therapist has suggested several times that I don't drive by this guys house if I don't have to. I do avoid driving by his house. When a therapist does this proceedure, does it go through the court system? I have no record. I have no weapons. I'm not going to do anything to this guy or his family. I just consider him lower than a pile of dog crap.

Have you considered changing a therapist? Why would you want to go to a therapist that is clearly not on your side. He doesn't seem to understand where you are comming from after the three years of the therapy, either.

My therapist is quitting at the end of september and going to work at a hospital. They will put me on the list and hopefully the new guy will take me on.

Your therapist cannot legally give out personal/private information. If your therapist contacted ANYONE regarding what you are saying it is against the law.

It doesn't hurt to change therapists periodically anyway. After a while they cannot do anything for you anyway. Someone with a new perspective may give you different, more relevant information.

In that privacy policy they specify an exception: when someone is perceived to be the danger of themselves or others, then the therapist can contact the people with intention of preventing that danger.

But, of course, the OP was not a danger to that person, so it must have been a very bad therapist that they arrived at that decision so hastilly without any evidence.

I was told at the beginning of therapy about the notification thing and reminded of it when I started saying angry stuff about this ex cop.

This sounds very bad, you might want to ask the therapist what he or she knows about libel law. That might give them the fright of their life, you could drop in juicy remarks such as "the libel statute does not include limits for the damages" and that the defence of privilege is not an absolute defence.

Even if you have no intention of filing a libel suit it could give them an almight fright.

I would challenge the therapist in the following way.

Ask them "are you morally disgusted with any on this earth ?"

If they say no, then I would suggest that you could suggest that the therapist has either stuck their head in the sand, very naïve or lacks a moral compass. and are unable to tell right from wrong. There are people in this world who have done things which I find very morally offensive

If they say "yes“, then I would ask them. “Are you a physical threat to this person, should I report you to the cops just in case you choose to murder them this evening ?"

You might be able to point out in this way how your therapist is acting in such a stupid way. If your therapist suggests that it is OK for him to report you but not the other way then I would comment that that is a clear example of double standards.

I"m NOT going to do anything like lawsuits or anything in the same universe as that action. He is moving on to be a therapist at another place. I'm not going to make a mountain out of a molehill.

Sounds reasonable to me. If what's not a threat just fades away quietly then it was obviously not a threat.
Bedsides, life is struggle enough without the hassle of a year-long lawsuit wait.
Spend your resources on you.

I'm really not sure how anyone found anything wrong with what my therapist "might" have done legally. The reason I started this thread is to find out if anyone was familiar with the notification process that therapists go through "if" they have a patient that threatens someone. I never threatened this ex cop but did express a lot of anger about what he and his friends did to me.