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Originally Posted by sky dancer
The female patient in RL was arrested for assault. She was drunk and disorderly. She has PTSD, a very heavy family history with a ton of abuse of all kinds.
She dissociates, and thinks she has a demon.
The man I was hiding, in RL has schizoaffective disorder and was arrested for a sex offense that he committed while under the influence of meth.
There is no black man in RL. But in the dream, he was another colleague--either a social worker like myself--or someone in Probation.
I used to work in Mental Health in a program that partnered with Alcohol and Drugs and the Probation departments.
I think this may be related to a flashback I had last week of being molested by my uncle. I talked to my T about it this week and he said I'm not ready to work on it yet. I think I get it. I was able to stop the sexual abuse, but then my uncle took it up with my younger sister.
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The guilt may be in saving a sexual offender and feeling helpless like the girl who was murdered, the colleague make represent clinical reasoning but also a certain detachment that gets percieved at times when we work through a very traumatizing experience in raw emotions. The addiction could be the net.