How do nurses and therapists and suicide helplines do it?

How??? I don't know how but I have so much respect and awe for these amazing people. How do you go to work everyday to see so much suffering, shoulder through it, carry other souls and bodies through a surgery or a session...just....how do you not cave under the weight?

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xixgun · M

Some have a gift for helping others, some just read the script, and some don't do well at all - ending up needing the very services they are supposed to provide.

ShieldUp · 26-30, M

@xixgun Totally understandable.

xixgun · M

@ShieldUp Indeed. I would be the person they would call if they needed someone to [i]spur on[/i] suicides.

ShieldUp · 26-30, M

@xixgun spur on?

xixgun · M

@ShieldUp *Spur on. V (sp-er ahn) A call to action, to encourage

ShieldUp · 26-30, M

@xixgun I get that but you....encourage suicides?