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katydid777 · Jan 10, 2018, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by little turtle

my last big breakdown still bugs me....I left the private practice of psychiatry in 1973..
I stopped suddenly seeing patients and tried to do something else....I couldn't do anything...I was severely depressed...I had too many problems of my own...I just couldn't listen any longer to my patients suffering...I had my own problems in my marriage...but my biggest problem being in charge of a private practice all on my own...I just broke down...

bottom line----I had too many personal problems myself to be able to help others....
it was not for me after years of preparation and training...I wanted so much to help my patients without using medicines...but I couldn't do it...I tried...what a downer..

You have to stop torturing your self. You seen what needed to be done and you did it. Do you think the patients you had at that time would have gotten the care they needed if you stayed? Do you think your family would have kept going the way things were if you stayed in practice? Stop blaming your self, like me with my Daughter, I made the best decision I could at that time in my life.