Do you feel bad your T has to listen to awful/sad stories day in, and day out? And wonder how on EARTH do they cope, or do it for X amount of years?
I have thought/worried about this on and off the whole time i've been in therapy, but i think last session really triggered that worry. I walked in (a few min late), and my T was at her desk trying to get her computer to work or something. She then said we should work on summer scheduling, and when she looked at me I was so startled! I think I kept a normal face though--but she looked exhausted, her hair was all over the place, and her clothes were wrinkled. I honestly wanted to RUN out of there and let her be. I did NOT want to complain to her about my life, when she seems so out of whack.
Of course, I didn't, nor did I say anything about it. Weirdly enough, when she sat down she looked "normal" to me.

Its not like I never see her standing or anything. And nothing was "off" in terms of how the therapy session went that day. She seemed in tune, normal T. Weird.
Anyway--I have issues where I do not want to encroach myself on anyone unless I am 100% sure that they don't mind listening to me. Clearly, I shouldn't worry about this in therapy, but I do. I mean how do you listen to sad, traumatic, negative, angry...etc feelings coming from your clients all day? How can they contain all that, and still act like they are unfazed, in a good mood..etc?
I know that T's are trained in self-care, and do consultations and some have their own T's...but STILL. It makes me never want to go back there, so T could have her morning free to rest and relax. I will go back, though.
I work in customer service, and I generally like people-but on bad days, days when i'm tired, upset about something, whatever...it is VERY hard to act friendly and nice to every single customer. I know I don't act the same as if i was in a good mood.
So...anyone else think like this?!