Calling "wounded healers"

SOS made a good point.

How can you heal others, when you are still healing yourself?

But, do you think the focus on self is selfish (no pun intended)?

Are we ever completely healed? Are the people we help ever completely healed? I don't think so. But even if we are not healed, we can still reach out and help someone up. Granted, we have to be careful, and watched, that we do no harm. But there's an awful lot that can be done to benefit someone more wounded than we are...for example, this forum.

I work with people who have various disabilities, often there are developmental as well as psychiatric issues. People tell me they could never do my job, but I feel like if I didn't have my work I would be nothing as a person.
I want to give other people the love, care and attention that I so desperately needed as a child and still sort of do today.
If someone calls me a healer or when I feel I have helped someone I feel my world is at peace.