I had a psychiatrist once where I worked for a cleaning business that cleaned her house on a regular basis. This psychiatrist was neat, orderly, punctual, and precise and all the things that presented herself professionally. Initially, I wasn't aware that my boss was cleaning her house until for whatever reason I mentioned my pdocs name in conversation. My boss then proceeds to tell me that every time they would have to clean my pdocs house it always looked like a bomb went off; perhaps because she (pdoc) has two kids. There was stuff strewn about; nothing put away, food; crumbs in the kitchen, etc. Basically, it was just a mess every time. So when I heard this I was outright dumbfounded. Surely, this is not the same person who I interacted with so I asked my boss if we were actually talking about the same person and sure enough, we were.

So my point to this little story is there are some people that are great at understanding and helping others outside of their family but are absolutely clueless, or possibly in denial, as to how to handle situations within their own families.