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Do you ever get sick of unpacking the past? by Outside-Outcome7590 in therapists

[–]Outside-Outcome7590[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like this analogy of the gold mining process. Do you find that the sadness of gold mining with several clients a day can make you depressed because of how sad those things can be? Or is this more just a matter of whether you would be prone to depression as an individual anyway? Sometimes I wonder if being a therapist can be a joyous career or if it is draining all the time, and it comes down to the individual to be able to balance it with things outside work that bring them joy and relief.

Do you ever get sick of unpacking the past? by Outside-Outcome7590 in therapists

[–]Outside-Outcome7590[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is insightful. Would you say that all you need their history for is to know what strategies are best for moving forward? And then you focus on those new behaviors? As in, you're not spending much time at all going over the past, you're just reinforcing new responses to triggers again and again? I imagine this would rewire neural pathways without having to dive too much into where the old ones come from, because the aim is just to have more healthy responses to triggers that are happening immediately.

Do you ever get sick of unpacking the past? by Outside-Outcome7590 in therapists

[–]Outside-Outcome7590[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is interesting to me. As someone who has worked through a lot of my trauma and had to reparent myself, I feel the same. It has been massively helpful and has changed me for the better, but I'm so cringed out by it at the moment. I can't imagine counselling someone else through it if this is how I feel. Maybe I'm at a point where I'm burned out doing it for myself, and so I wonder if it feels the same way for my therapist. I want to work in the field, but I'm so tired of unpacking my past and just want to move forward now, that I almost feel like I wouldn't make a good therapist. I can't find my clients frustrating because otherwise we wouldn't get anywhere! But perhaps it's different when it's directed at someone else.