It feels very odd to be 'blogging' but here goes.
I have been reflecting on how my job as a therapist (speech language therapist) affects the way I feel about my ME/CFS. I spend quite a lot of my much reduced time at work, encouraging other people to talk about how they are feeling and what they want, so that I can try to help in the best way I can. But I have trouble turning the table. I think that perhaps if you are the sort of person who gets reward from feeling that you have helped someone else, in whatever small way, it can perhaps be harder to be that person who asks for help, or to feel that telling your story to others is actually a reasonable thing to do.... That perhaps other people might want to listen or at a basic level that you deserve to be listened to.
I don't know if that sounds really strange or completely normal! One of the things that made me think about this today is that I really want to tell other people about the Canary in a Coal Mine project on kickstarter, but I feel unable to tell family and friends on Facebook because I am unwell. If it was family or friends who were affected, I wouldn't feel this way. Is that weird?
I have been reflecting on how my job as a therapist (speech language therapist) affects the way I feel about my ME/CFS. I spend quite a lot of my much reduced time at work, encouraging other people to talk about how they are feeling and what they want, so that I can try to help in the best way I can. But I have trouble turning the table. I think that perhaps if you are the sort of person who gets reward from feeling that you have helped someone else, in whatever small way, it can perhaps be harder to be that person who asks for help, or to feel that telling your story to others is actually a reasonable thing to do.... That perhaps other people might want to listen or at a basic level that you deserve to be listened to.
I don't know if that sounds really strange or completely normal! One of the things that made me think about this today is that I really want to tell other people about the Canary in a Coal Mine project on kickstarter, but I feel unable to tell family and friends on Facebook because I am unwell. If it was family or friends who were affected, I wouldn't feel this way. Is that weird?
