I see a temporary counsellor up until I can see a psychotherapist and there´s no deep attachment but what I got to know today still stings a bit.

My counsellor is very open about what she thinks about political decisions, issues within society and so forth. Among those things is the the situation at the facility we're in, where she works and we´re I´m one of the patients.


Several times she has pointed to the bad conditions for patients, how hard it is to get care and so on. I´ve gotten the impression that she isn´t that happy about working there and that she thinks many issues are handled badly by managers.

She perhaps do think like this but today I got to know that she´s allowed to bring her dog into her office as her boss likes dogs and her boss also has dog toys in her office. Toys that my counsellor´s dog gets to play with.

I was kind of surprised both because a patient could get an allergic reaction if she keeps her dog there several days a week and also because this gave me a different picture of both her boss and the facility.

It sure doesn´t sound like a workplace as she has described it to me before, that she liked their old boss much more, she even has pictures of her old boss on her office wall. By that I´ve gotten the impression that her conditions of employment weren´t that good.


But now, as this is very rare, when she told me she was allowed to bring her dog and the dog likes her patients and so on, it seems like a very nice environment to work within.


I´ve had some thoughts about how she pictures things before this as she has worked at this facility for many years and still she talks about it in negative terms. It makes me feel like she describes things to me in a more negative way than what´s reality just to make me feel like I´m not alone in having problems.

As I also found out she´s married, she has two dogs, a flat in the city center and so on I kind of feel that she doesn´t know about true problems. I feel a bit deluded even if she never lied about anything but perhaps made it seem her situation is worse than it truly is.


What do you think about all this?