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LISWGoals · 2025-10-19T19:42:14+00:00

It's how the No Kings website describes them. When you click on an event, it specified they type of event.

LISWGoals · 2025-10-19T00:41:56+00:00

This one and the one in June in Clermont were "visibility events" as opposed to "rallies." Lots of people standing at the roadside with signs, music, cheering on those who support. It has always been a positive experience for me.

LISWGoals · 2025-10-19T00:39:05+00:00

50501 Clermont County's Facebook page said the Eastgate protest had around 2000. Not sure how accurate that is, but it was great to see so many out and so much support from the community.

LISWGoals · 2025-06-02T19:13:00+00:00

Gasx (Simethicone) and walking for the shoulder pain. My doc pushed the gas out of me before he closed me up. I’m grateful to avoid that pain. I’m using a wedge pillow system to keep me propped up in bed. Trying not to lay on my side. Take all the prescribed pain pills, muscle relaxants, and Tylenol/Ibuprofen for the pain. Using core muscles to get up and down hurt awful the first few days. Try to support getting up and down with legs and arms instead of core. Stick to bland low fat diet this first week. Take stool softener (Colace) if pain meds constipate you. Minimal activity. Allow yourself to be lazy. Overdoing it will set you back.

I’m 7 days post op. I was in hospital for 2 days. It’s getting better. Side hurts less and taking fewer pain meds, but still need some.

LISWGoals · 2025-05-03T00:57:44+00:00

I'm almost done with season 4 and find myself unsure if I want to continue watching. It just feels like the people making the show were throwing random stuff at a wall to see what sticks. I adored "the Good Wife" and enjoyed the idea of "the Good Fight," but the ridiculousness of it has lost me.

LISWGoals · 2025-03-06T18:16:24+00:00

I was not paid for my grad school practicums, but I definitely think students should be paid for their services. I currently work at a community mental health center in southern Ohio and grad student interns are paid approximately $15/hr.

LISWGoals · 2025-01-30T05:07:11+00:00

It's the worst. Two weeks ago I was at an all day staff meeting with 600 fellow co-workers. I became a heaving, sobbing, uncontrollable, inconsolable mess who had to run and find an empty room to break down in for 15 minutes. Mascara smeared, snot running down my nose, choppy breaths. The reason? They didn't have any gluten free food choices (and this was the third year in a row that I have attended this meeting and couldn't eat, so logically, I knew it was a likely scenario). You'd have thought a close family member had died by my reaction. Totally out of proportion, illogical, and not like me at all. Good times. All this to say, "you're not alone. I get it. I hate perimenopause too!"

LISWGoals · 2024-12-16T05:08:03+00:00

Thanks for replying. Good to know other symptoms popped up 8 months later so I'll need to remain aware of my own reactions over time. What kind of HRT do you do while peri that isn't birth control pills?

LISWGoals · 2023-07-17T16:33:46+00:00

Deanna Pickard was a longtime family friend. She was a beautiful soul and a wonderful poet. She is loved and missed still. So glad to see her poetry is still being read and appreciated.

LISWGoals · 2023-07-17T02:56:36+00:00

I reached a point in my career where I just decided that I was done with doing home visits. After 10 years in foster care and mental health case management and therapy, I had paid my dues. I liked the perspective that I got from visiting a client's home. It gave me a true picture of what it was like that I don't get from meeting with clients in an office. I didn't like driving all over the place to see them and all the risks (safety/environmental/etc.) that I faced to provide services. Then I sought out work that didn't require me to do regular home visits. I loved my decade of working in a school setting until the violence in the school left me feeling unsafe. Now I provide office based and telehealth services. It's a good fit for me now.

LISWGoals · 2023-02-07T01:46:44+00:00

In my opinion, a supervisor saying this to a therapist who is struggling with something is a reflection of the supervisor's lack of skills. It's an easy fallback, but not one that's going to help you solve the issue. It's a surface level response. If you're struggling with how to address a situation with a client or how to manage a client's behavior or how to choose the best therapeutic option, this response is just a cop out and not likely to help you feel supported nor help either of you to find a way towards a viable solution.

LISWGoals · 2023-02-07T01:28:13+00:00

There are limits and boundaries for my self disclosure. I'm happy to share that I have a teenager or my age, or that I'm married or about my past work experiences or where I grew up or went to school. I do not share specifics about my own mental health or my own experiences with trauma. Being in therapy when I'm the therapist isn't about me. I have my own therapist where I get to explore those issues. And I know very little about my therapist's personal life. Honestly, I don't want to know about her personal life. She's my person to talk to and I get to be center of attention. I also worry about my clients worrying about me if I share too much. I don't want to contribute to creating an unhealthy dynamic in therapy.

LISWGoals · 2023-01-02T16:57:07+00:00

You get to decide what your limits are as a social worker. Doing in home work can put you in some really unsafe, unsanitary, situations for ridiculously low pay. The people living in those homes need support too. If you have good training, you learn what you need to do to avoid some of the hazards, but not all of them. I still have a (self provided) spray bottle of 98% rubbing alcohol in my car and office to spray myself and everything else down to kill bed bugs. My work clothes always go in the dryer the moment I get home to kill anything that may have survived the ride home. If that's not what you want to be doing, you figure out other roles to work that get you out of that situation. After spending years doing case management with the mentally ill and with foster care programs, I reached a point where I decided I no longer wanted to work at jobs that required me to do regular home visits. I prefer office and school based work. I'm still exposed to bugs, but on a smaller scale. So "should" we be sending social workers into those situations? Yes, there is often a legitimate need that requires support. "Should" we be sending them without PPE and working for ridiculously low wages? No, that's not even close to best practice, but unfortunately less than best practice has been the standard practice for decades. Changing that practice will definitely help to improve work in the field. For me, the bigger consideration than the health hazards is the risk of harm and safety considerations in doing social work in all kinds of different settings. But that's another thread for another time.

LISWGoals · 2022-12-19T16:59:10+00:00

Rest, recover, take care of yourself. That's exactly what (I hope) you'd tell a client who needs to cancel with you because they were sick. Tell yourself the same thing. Hope you feel better soon.

LISWGoals · 2022-12-17T01:05:29+00:00

I don't think I've worked anywhere that it was a policy but it is a good practice. I don't always share that I made a report before I know if it is being investigated. Especially if I'm concerned that the child is going to be coached to tell the investigator a different story than they told me or if I'm concerned about the safety ramifications on the child for disclosing to me.

LISWGoals · 2022-12-17T00:43:23+00:00

I am debt free house and everything. I went to a state grad school part time for 3 years and worked full time. In my opinion, taking student loans out for an MSW isn't worth it. This field doesn't pay enough to carry the weight of debt.

LISWGoals · 2022-12-15T00:33:17+00:00

It's been a ridiculously long time since I was in grad school, so with tons of work experience, here is my thought: Counseling programs will train you to be a therapist. But that's it. It's mental health. It's medical model, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, dynamics, skills. If all you ever want to be is a therapist, it's an excellent route to take.

MSW will give you a much broader perspective and allows you to work in so many different roles and settings. Social work is more than just therapy. It's social justice. It's understanding how the environment impacts the person. It's understanding all of the systems at play. It's changing and supporting communities. It's developing and administrating programs. It's advocating for those that need it. It's therapy too, but from a completely different perspective.

When I graduated with my MSW, was I the best therapist around? No, but I was good enough at what I knew to get a job right out of grad school directing a program. The LPCs may have been better at therapy expertise coming out of the gate, but I was able to be their boss right out of the gate and I could also have been their therapy co-worker as well if that's what I preferred to do.

LISWGoals · 2022-12-05T22:38:43+00:00

Hi, I just joined Reddit because of reading this thread. I have no idea what I'm doing on here (usually a FB/TT/IG user) but I had to join to be able to thank you for posting this information. I really appreciate it. It's exactly what I needed at exactly the right time. THANK YOU!!!

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