I worked as a special education teacher in a private school for severely behaviorally disordered children for four years. I was breaking up fights on the daily, as well as insulted all day every day. One student told me to kill myself after finding out about my mental health issues (thanks to a stickybeak coworker - but that’s another issue entirely). I was never personally attacked thank god, beyond just getting stuff thrown at me, but it was a harrowing environment to work in. I had to take another job in a public school to save my sanity. I fully understand working with a difficult population and not feeling supported, especially with your own mental health issues to deal with. It’s hard to remember it’s not personal.
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Of course it is happening inside your head. But why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
-Albus Dumbledore
That’s life. If nothing else, that is life. It’s real. Sometimes it
f—-ing hurts. But it’s sort of all we have.
-Garden State
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