I've had better days.

Aug 22, 2012 18:46

Overall, I am not happy with the place I'm going to get counseling. I had another hour-plus long wait to see a doctor for, like, two minutes, in that waiting room. The doctor said something vague about someone had threatened to burn down the building, which, yeah, I can see how that would throw your schedule off. That's pretty awful, and I am ( Read more... )

r2m, lycanthropy, doctor crap

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naamah_darling August 23 2012, 19:22:48 UTC
So, if you have a feeling that they don't understand you, you are right, and should never blame yourself for it. This is what happens, when people don't study medicine, because it's a calling, but because it's a great way to make money.

Yes! And maybe he is working there because he wants to help. I have no idea what he gets paid, but he's at a cheap clinic for folks too poor to pay for anything else, so it can't be much, and I know that they book him in ten-minute blocks, which is . . . six patients an hour, assume he works six hours a day, that's 36 people a day, and you are seeing different people every day. So he's kind of overworked. But I can't see taking a job like that UNLESS you wanted to help. (Unless he's doing it because that's all he could get, or he wants it on his resume.)

But even if that is true, he's doing a shite job of it. Honestly, truly, I ask for extremely little. I know I can be difficult to deal with under certain circumstances, and I make every effort to make dealing with me as easy as possible otherwise, and to prevent those circumstances, but it doesn't appear to make a whit of difference. >:(

they are still about as useful as hair in your food.

That is a really great way of putting it!

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infernal_sheep August 24 2012, 17:43:39 UTC
Wanting to help, unfortunately, doesn't mean that you are capable of helping. I believe that no amount of studying can substitute for empathy, which should be the first and most important requirement for a mental health practitioner. And too many people mistake empathy - which by definition is the ability to *understand* another's feelings - with compassion, or even worst, pity.

Not going to offer any advice, because frankly, I think they already have enough material for the roads in hell anyway, so I am just going to recommend one of the most magical movies I have seen instead: Bagdad Cafe (Out of Rosenheim).
It's available on youtube, it seems:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56OYfaN722Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksS1tiAMOuM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvCalRIi_p8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y8eDdT6g-g

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