Posted by Katzenjam52 on June 21, 2010, at 1:08:24
In reply to Oh, Effing Eff It, posted by Katzenjam52 on June 21, 2010, at 1:00:13
This person though, he is not alone, he is by no means the only therapist who has cut a swathe of pain to add to humanity's burdens in this way. And I am quite, quite sure, that mental health professionals have, in the past as well as the present, excused themselves with platitudes with the geography of self-forgiveness, and satisfaction with the numbers they have helped not hindered, and comfort in believing they did their best.
But it is never best to hurt others, because those hurt ones will go on and hurt others as well, and the cycle of pain continues until something good or something bad happens.
And that is what mental health professionals need to know, learn and understand.
But learning cannot come without a price, not true learning. The lesson is in the experience, the wisdom comes from the understanding, and that can only happen with empathy and experience.
And I'm sick of all the stigmas placed on the mentally ill, when the mentally ill are the canaries in the coalmine.
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