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A Mental Health Therapist: A Case Study

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Going into it, Maggie knew that the job wasn’t going to be easy and there were going to be times where she struggled since it was hard work, but she didn’t know it was going to burden her this much. Everyday she sees a handful of patients, but no longer puts in much effort to help them. Veterans have wounds that would take a lot of time and attention to heal, and she no longer has the drive to alleviate their pain. Being a mental health therapist was what she had always wanted to do even when she was a young girl. Her mother worked as a social worker, and it inspired her to want to help people, but that inspiration is long gone. Bonnie felt drained from her years of putting others health before her own and now she was paying the price for it. …show more content…

Maggie wanted to make her own choices and now that she’s been working for a few years, she wishes she would have listened to that advice, she struggles daily to offer any sort of sympathy to these people and there was also so much on her mind she finds herself lost in her own head for the most part. Nothing has meaning anymore and she’s constantly tired, she only kept her job because of the student loans she’s been paying off for the last five years. At the rate she was going it would take her another ten years to finally be debt free. Her head pounds when she thinks about coming to the same office day in and day out for the next decade. She’s sure that this job will be the end of her if things don’t

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