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Originally Posted by spondiferous
. Not to mention that a great number of mental health professionals seem, for some reason, to not have any personal experience with mental or emotional trauma, and so they have no idea the kinds of trauma they are causing and don't seem to give much thought to how a person is going to pick up the pieces after the wounds are reopened.
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More of them than you know do have personal experience with mental illness. My therapist does regular sessions with a colleague just to be able to manage hearing all the things he hears and he offers the same to others as a professional courtesy. It's the wounded healer archetype.
Many people with MH issues enter the field because of their own struggles. 1 in 10 Americans develop MH issues in any year....and that means that 1 in 10 MH pros do too.
Touching someone's trauma just happens in the course of trying to heal and help someone. Doesn't feel good. Recently had an appt with DH and Pdoc and between them I think they hit every single trigger I have. I was also meds unstable at the time, so it did not take much.
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