Spent the weekend agonizing over a friend who I knew damn well was suicidal (he admitted as much) but he's in California so it's not as though I could hold his hand through it. Then he makes a very odd facebook post and disappears. I made sure he had my cell number and slept with my phone two inches from my head. Turns out he's living in his bus
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I have so much respect for people who go into counseling, but I could never do it. It seems like it would require a really high degree of compartmentalization to deal with so much pain all the time and not let it affect one's own life.
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It does, and if I go back to work I need to work on leaving work at work. That's always been a struggle for me. As much as I feel like I could be effective at suicide prevention (and if you know someone, don't hesitate to send them my way) I think it would be too hard on me personally in the long run. The one thing I felt I really excelled at was grief support and I think that's because you're not trying to "fix" anything, you're really teaching someone how to live with the new normal.
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