Unfortunately, private isn't an option.

Post #6,601 by inthane-chan 8/24/01 11:52:01 AM 8/24/01 11:58:54 AM Reply	Unfortunately, private isn't an option. The way licensing is set up down here, you HAVE to do your time in a public agency for a certain number of hours, THEN you can go private. While having to put up with somebody like this guy would be bad for everybody, I personally believe it's about an order of magnitude or two worse when the hatred in question that they have is of your ethnic background. What's burning me up is the attitude that she's running into from her superiors - not even a "here's how you deal with it" - it's just "tough shit, get back in there, we don't care." "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche Edited by inthane-chan Aug. 24, 2001, 11:58:54 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #6,606 by Simon_Jester 8/24/01 11:57:57 AM Reply	How much longer does she have to work there to go private? (Then ask yourself if it's worth it or not.)
Post #6,660 by inthane-chan 8/24/01 6:09:14 PM Reply	Something like a year. Actually, it got resolved today - apparently the story made it's way up the ranks, and it came down from On High that she would no longer be seeing this client. In some ways y'all are right - she is going to have to deal with people like this from time to time. What's different right now is we have too much stuff going on for her to be able to deal with this. I'm going to school full time, and working full time. She takes care of everything else. We're both really frazzled, and don't have time (even on the weekends) to really catch up with things. That's why I was trying to help her get out from underneath having to deal with this additional stress. As far as the current state of community-based mental healthcare, it really has taken a dramatic turn for the worse in Washington - all the clinicians she works with are really unhappy with the way things have gone since the new HMOs started running things. While money always has been tight, the new rules seem designed to drive any mental health agency out of business, and the workers are being pushed to even more insane extremes with every passing year. She is seriously considering a career change, but isn't quite sure what to do yet. It's sad - she got her Masters degree two years ago, and she already wants out. "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Post #6,777 by drewk 8/27/01 10:09:18 AM Reply	Good to hear I hope this reprieve gives her the breathing room to figure out a way to cope with the next one. Good luck to you both. This is my sig. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Post #6,641 by Ashton 8/24/01 3:34:14 PM Reply	Can she possibly work it around to.. 'seeing' differently? Seeing such assholes as, simply - sick? Like excessive consumption of brightly packaged goods, racism, fascism are a clear litmus for a degree of derangement.. Like Tourette's Syndrome \ufffd - involuntary. And to a large extent IMO, the spewing of Hate in its various overt & subtle forms - IS about personal inadequacy, made 'tolerable' by picking a Jew or a ___ as an onject which is even more Fucked than (I Know) I am. Maybe the worst form of this pestilence is in the TeeVee preachers - for they wrap their pustulence in hypocritical Judgments from on High, imagining that this highly selective 'reading' of ancient mistranslated texts: is an excuse for spreading bigotry of the usual kind. And they do so with such Beatific smarls on their pudgy faces! Pleased as Punch are they.. doing God's Work and such.. How does your wife then, (currently) deal with the Sanctimonious Ones, when they attempt to mess with her head? (If she can handle one of These guys' little sermons.. surely she can handle a race-baiter), while laughing inside and occasionally: Out Loud! = an excellent response to palpably inane behavior... and legit too, should a Supervisor Drone be horrifed.. and then the reasons are set out. Step-by-step, so a Supervisor can understand.. it.. Just a thought.. sometimes one Can change an attitude - usually from a deeper understanding of an er 'issue'. What such defectives 'say'.. has of course Nothing whatsoever to do with: Who She Is. (We just sometimes.. forget this, y'know?) (Besides.. if we Could eliminate asshole parents, those passing on their depravities to a new generation - there might not be enough drones left to take out the garbage, and detail the UAVs on Saturdays..) Ashton who is increasingly grateful, on encountering just one more civilized one.. amidst the noise of the rat-race!

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