Brain Shrink, Think.

Although I was planning on posting about something else, this entry will have a more personal tone since it is salient currently given workload. We have all heard about, and some of us have, experienced burnout. Being in the helping profession, there is this sense (rather verbalized or not) that the individual who is helping is somehow "above" help from others. While most people within individual focused societies may have this general bias, it is unique to the helping individual in the sense that we not only have it, but help others who reach out to us despite them having the same bias. In a sense, this puts us in a unique position, despite contradictions. There is this general sense that if you are helping people, especially with their life problems, then you yourself can "solve" your own with little to no help from others. While this is general to most of the helping professions, I will talk about the therapist, since it is one I am personally familiar with.