Posted by Susan47 on October 18, 2005, at 20:32:12
In reply to Re: Another psychiatrist suicides..................... » ace, posted by zenhussy on October 17, 2005, at 5:39:22
I don't know, maybe it really isn't so weird after all. They're people just like you and me and their training won't necessarily help them with their own problems with depression, sadness, anxiety, guilt, counter-transference, you name it. Why should they be any different from anybody else really? I do't believe their own frailties make them ineffectual, necessarily, in their practice of their profession .. only when their clients bring up their own issues, then it definitely is a bugger. I think any responsible therapist would seek outside third-party help for EVERYONE involved in the therapy.
IMO that's part of what went wrong in my own therapy. And stuff like that can hurt not just the client but also the therapist, and if the therapist is already depressed or going through terrible times of his own or Whatever ... god.
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