Ask about a treatment or specialist exercise · S11.18

Clarify your choice about a proposed treatment step

You feel ambivalent about a step someone has recommended.

Prepare for professional guidance

Try these steps

1. Write what you hope the step may offer and what concerns you.
2. Ask the qualified professional responsible for the plan about rationale, alternatives, and how consent is handled.
3. Choose based on the discussion rather than a deadline or another person's demand for commitment.

An example

I want to understand this step before agreeing to it.

Reflect

Do you have enough information to make a voluntary choice?

Next time

Bring continuing concerns back for discussion.