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Originally Posted by fishsandwich
I want to be able to explain it to my friends and family! I've always failed at that. I don't care about disclosing it at work - I work in other professions now and it's completely irrelevant.
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Ah sorry, I thought you meant in work. I have no idea with regards to family & friends. It's the family joke here, so I just keep it to myself.
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Originally Posted by fishsandwich
He sounds like a fantastic therapist!
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He was. Unfortunately he's left for a new job, so I'm to see an ordinary (i.e. non-therapy trained) CPN now. Hmmm we'll see how that goes!
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Originally Posted by fishsandwich
What kind of mental health care do you want to do?
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Ideally I'd now like to become a clinical psychologist, but I've already had to give up my dream of being a psychiatrist, so I'm aware that I may never get there. I just want a job where I'm trained in lots of different therapies and can help patients, but we'll see how it goes.
How did you manage working in mental health and suffering from mental health problems at the same time? I found it really hard working inpatient when I did my psych rotation in medschool, because I'm absolutely terrified at the thought of ending up in the psych ward. Outpatient was fine, but with inpatient it was hard not to avoid the ward and patients. Obviously something I have to get over though!
*Willow*