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I cried my eyes out after every one of my shifts this week. Sometimes when I got home, sometimes as soon as I walked out of the building and got in my car. I feel completely hopeless and overwhelmed there lately. We're so short staffed, it's ridiculous. And it doesn't seem like it's ever going to get any better! We hired one new guy who started this week, and he's fantastic...but then my supervisor got moved to the overnight shift, and one of my co-workers accepted a new job and will be leaving us at the end of the month. One step forward and two steps back.
I'm getting promoted to the next rung up on the ladder (behavioral health technician), which is cool. It's not going to be a whole lot more money though, and it's basically the same job I already have except I'll be able to do intakes and pass medications. I just worry that I'm going to have a nervous breakdown and walk out of there one of these days. I love my clients so much (even though a lot of them were acting like jerks today and driving me nuts), and most of the people I work with are wonderful, but the system is so fucked and half the time I don't feel like we're helping people much at all. It's incredibly frustrating and disheartening. How can I be this burned out after only 7 months in the field?? I must be the most overly sensitive person on the planet.
I'm getting promoted to the next rung up on the ladder (behavioral health technician), which is cool. It's not going to be a whole lot more money though, and it's basically the same job I already have except I'll be able to do intakes and pass medications. I just worry that I'm going to have a nervous breakdown and walk out of there one of these days. I love my clients so much (even though a lot of them were acting like jerks today and driving me nuts), and most of the people I work with are wonderful, but the system is so fucked and half the time I don't feel like we're helping people much at all. It's incredibly frustrating and disheartening. How can I be this burned out after only 7 months in the field?? I must be the most overly sensitive person on the planet.