A set of paragraphs that contains my garbled thoughts for the past few days now.
It sounds like someone's dream getting paid to listen to other people's problems and tell them what to do until you actually listen to people's problems and tell them what to do. If you're a problem solver type of person, expect to hit a wall that patients made for themselves because some of the advices requires lifestyle modification which is something most people aren't willing to change especially when they don't see themselves as part of the problem.
You wouldn't believe how people take their mental health seriously especially the younger ones that seem like it's a fashion statement to have suicidal ideations, granted some people really do have reasonable triggers to get them depressed and be thinking that way. However, there are sets of people out there that think because their friends have it and being suicidal looks cool, they actually FOMO for consult because everyone else in their friend group has it.
I'm not taking suicidal ideations lightly but there comes a time when you've seen it several times already that it just wanes down on the novelty meter.
We're the ones teaching stress management classes but also the first people to get stressed because other people get stressed then it becomes our problem. It's weird because the perception of how we make our job look easy bites us so hard.
The type of patients we tend to attract are sometimes people that are a little bit entitled especially when they think they live with a disability therefore they should have special privileges much like senior citizens, except 9/10 patients that come in are persons living with disabilities so everyone is treated fairly to wait in line.
The other day, I managed to convince someone to have their child undergo surgery despite the risks that they'll get into a coma. Don't get me wrong, I didn't pushed them to make it happen, I just asked what is it that they wanted to happen. Most of the time, people already know the answer but want the validation they made the right choice. They came back looking for me but we didn't meet the next time, instead they just sang praises about how much of a saint I turned out to be hearing their problems to my colleagues.
They attempted to get hit by a truck as the reason for consult the other day and just so happens to be the last patient I was about to give up from seeing but I went to see them anyway. Call it just luck or words of persuasion.
I do have a knack for this job.
I haven't checked the market as much as I used to. Hive went dump so bad and I couldn't find the nerve to care like I used to. Being so preoccupied with real world drama has left me aloof in this space, I want to get active but life happens heh.
I'll try tying Hive thing to the art thing just so I could have an excuse to shitpost some other days. I'm losing focus on several areas but things are going well.
Thanks for your time.
Mental illness...a lot of those going on these days.
There's job security in it but at least I know why it ain't for everybody even in health care. Some people can be draining to talk to. I just don't like the lip service that people give when they advocate mental health yet be the first ones to shun away the people who actually need the help most (and even cause the problems themselves).
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Despite the real world difficulties I'd argue that's probably a good thing ;^) it isn't worth getting all bothered about, better to just focus on what's more important in life
Things got busy outside Hive that I ended up having a detox over this platform, turns out I didn't miss much.
The challenge in the mental health industry seems to be that so many seek counseling not so much because they want their lives to be better, but because they are looking for a "permission slip" to validate their dysfunctions. My wife deals with this, all the time... but refuses to deal with such "reindeer games."
Yes, Hive seems to jump off a cliff every time Bitcoin does... and then fails to recover the same way Bitcoin does, leaving a net loss. Hard to be excited about that...
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A lot of the stuff I've personally seen seems to be a problem with over diagnosis and people trying to research the symptoms first then rehearse them when seeking consult. This is hard to prove sometimes but from what I've personally seen, there are tells to some people are just wasting my time trying to get some validation over the small matters.
People's reasoning tells them in the first instance that the problems are all around us, you have to be very reflective and sensible to open your eyes and realize that the problem is ourselves.
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