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Originally Posted by Hashi/bipolar mom
... The kicker to all of this is that he was getting his Masters in Counseling a few years back but instead got it in his field of work. Crazy! I think that has helped him understand as well....
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Originally Posted by Capriciousness
...I have found that sometimes the people in my life who are involved in some way in the mental health field are the worst at being compassionate about it. I have no idea why that is.
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Interesting on the counselor thing hashi/bipolar mom.
I haven't run into the compassion issue. (My experiences have all been good there, but I don't have a wide range of experience (a number of years, but few providers)). But I do think that, just like everyone else, psychs/counsellors etc. have a harder time seeing things in themselves than in others. When you're living it, it takes real effort to see it from an outsider's perspective, plus we all have our blind spots. Then there's
applying what we know, lol. (Oh, right, the
hard part(!)
)
My psych has a therapist. It's good to have an objective view. Which is something PC is good for too!
