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I have told only HR or supervisors and that is usually with a goal in mind. I wish I could be more open as it might help my advocacy efforts, but I am not established enough it risk it. I work in addictions and mental health and what I do is remind my colleagues that we see patients at their worst. I remind them that there are patients who are lawyers and doctors and engineers and some of them were even patients at the hospital a decade ago and it's our job to rehabilitate the patients we see now, and not to judge them or their goals.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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