Balance in life
My job is to work with complex and high needs clients. What that means is I work with difficult clients and/or clients that have complex issues (eg. mental health issues, disability – physical and intellectual, frail and aged, terminal illness, medical issues, behavioural issues, children and youth at risk).It’s an intense job and one that many people find extremely difficult and unrewarding. All day at work I am working with people with very complex and sometimes heartbreaking issues in their lives. These people are often very misunderstood (for various reasons) and have experienced/are experiencing terrible things in their lives.
Because of the issues and people I work with all day and every day I need to be silly and funny when I’m not here. It would depress me terribly to go home and watch a documentary (or tv series such as Law and Order SVU)on child abuse after I have spent my day talking to a women escaping a domestic violence situation where her children were sexually assaulted.
Home time is where I can stop having involvement with the terrible people that are around and stop thinking of the situations my clients are in.
When asked by J what I want to watch on tv when we’re sitting on the couch.. my choice is always funny. I need to see funny things, have a laugh, forget about the clients and laugh for a time.
It’s funny to think how people balance their lives. It is known that many comedians actually have depression. Perhaps that is how life balances things for them.
I am surrounded by issues that most people wouldn’t think twice about in their lives – they are issues that are too distasteful to think about as it makes people too uncomfortable, and as my balance I have to lose myself in comedy and fantasy. A book I can lose myself in about magickal worlds, or something that is just utterly ridiculous and funny that it makes me cry in laughter.
I love my job, I love being able to help these people when no-one else will.. some days I go home and cry but I love it anyway (perhaps I’m a glutton for punishment!). After seeing the problems my clients face it just reinforces how blessed we are in our lives. I am so blessed to have the things I have in my life and thank the Goddess and God for all I have.
posted by ~*Becky*~ @ 11:52 am
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