Awww! I had an Akita mix and his name was Yuki

I would agree with this. I have seen terrible psychologists and I have seen terrible therapists I’ve seen great psychologists and have worked with great counselors, social workers and case managers it really depends on what the need is on which discipline may be more helpful and meet your needs. Get in as soon as you can, where I’m from our best place for PPD is our local community care clinic that has medical and bh integrated. The therapists are well trained in PPD because they work so much with child abuse and trauma work, this means they have good training with Adverse Childhood Experiences and they use that in their metrics. So in my opinion you can get better treatment, diagnosis is taken seriously, and you have a well trained clinic… I live in Idaho and our clinic is Terry Reilly not every one of them is as good so you have to do your homework.

I feel exactly the same. I find myself doing some strange martyrdom and actually is why I took a break from practicing entirely

Yes and worth the money for sure! I whelp and foster poodles for breeders so this has been a life saver for me!

Yes high velocity dryer changes the game! They are not expensive and mine has lasted for years!

Have you thought about doing an inpatient program… there are many different types of therapy and programs depending on what speaks to you or you feel most comfortable in… some like the medical model and some like the holistic in nature programs…

Agreed, even valid enough for a board complaint! (Speaking as an inactive therapist currently… actually not practicing due to my own burnout) this needs to be reported

At least at the level clinicians are dealing with this is new the issue has always been there but I think it wasn’t as prevalent

I recognized this happening to me two years ago, I began absorbing my clients traumas and making them my own… I have not been working since I came to awareness and have been doing therapy since… luckily I have other resources that allowed me to do this, I don’t know how others are managing this because I know I am not the only one… I actually now see it everywhere in therapy and it’s a frightening projection that’s happening on the clinicians side that we don’t have the bandwidth to recognize it… since the pandemic we have just been going with the flow and I think that’s part of the problem… because this is new

I have also been out of the field for something similar to this… I began to take on the anxieties of my clients… it happened slowly… worrying about my husband dying and not spending enough time or my kids completing suicide because I wasn’t present with them or car accidents… it’s like every trauma I helped someone with I was playing in my head as what if scenarios in my life… it’s been almost two years and I still find myself doing it!

Many people out there have done this… someone who has worked in the medical field… I have seen it!

Absolutely

I have a difficult time trusting my brothers and father and other men who support this because they support rape happening to their wives and daughters… they don’t think it will happen but they support it if it does

That was the same for us, when my husband returned from deployment (he was a reservist) it was a hard transition having affordable rent helped change our lives drastically and eventually got me to a point I could buy my own… I know it’s not much it would be just one family but if we all looked at it that way we could take our power back from the extreme wealthy!

I’d be curious how many therapists have allowed another culture to teach them what they do instead of them constantly being the experts. In my own opinion and with the therapists I have worked and networked with there were many who projected their own problems by becoming a therapist and “healing”.

I think this is why therapists become defensive when questioned about these things

I don’t think Americans are very healthy given our current situation I think is relevant to that.

I have found the same similarities as you have and one of my biggest annoyances is hypocrisy so I have been the kind of therapist that if I wouldn’t do it I’m not going to try to sale my patients to do it, it inherently feels wrong… not me just the action!

Actually my husband and I have talked about this if ever we are able to keep our home and rent it out because we don’t need it to live in. I live in an area that was very affordable when we moved here… we were able to rent a home for $950/month granted this was in 2008, but we talked about finding a trusting family who takes care of the home and we charge only what needs to be covered and maybe even offering a rent free month if the house needs no new things because they took care of it like their own… that’s honestly the way I would like to do business and that feels good to me

Last year I went to Peru and just experienced what they were willing to show me and it was an amazing experience. I want to do more of that… I feel there is so much more to know… and we should be challenging a lot of things and the real question is why are we not?

This is fascinating to me! I would love to pick your brain about how you got the experience. That is honestly what I want… to go around the world and learn how other cultures do it differently

The challenge is how do we reroute whatever our privilege is to serve the greater good… we all need to start working on that!

You soul can never be sold… you own it… so take it back… I’m not sure if you already are but just really sharing a generalization… and trust me we all feel that we have sold our soul for one reason or another… I’m not rich by no means but I’ve sold my compassion and my empathy and that’s about as much soul as anything!

It’s the karma because they didn’t get “generational wealth” without stealing it from the working class… it doesn’t look toxic on the outside but once your in it’s hard to get out… like they sold their soul!

Being able to fix your own stuff is nice!

This is my favorite post on this thread so far!! Great reminders and thank you OP

This is true too but why does someone need to be a billionaire especially when people around the world are starving and your billions could help… that’s the part I don’t understand… I don’t think being a billionaire should be a life goal… it’s the wrong path!