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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 759564" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Dear Jmom</p><p></p><p>I think this was one incident and you need not fear. This is a temporary assignment. Everybody has vulnerabilities and soft spots. places where our strengths fit and our vulnerabilities don't hamper us. You will soon be back in your old beat.</p><p></p><p>But what you describe is a "thing." I have worked nearly all my adult life with people who are vulnerable in one way or another. As I have struggled in my own life, my heart has opened even more. For a long time, my open and soft heart helped. But after a time, i grew too soft. There was a time I felt I couldn't work anymore in my chosen field (prisons) because I had become too caring and too open and too vulnerable. What had always been a gift, the compassion, had become something else. I had to accept that I no longer fit in prisons. It's kind of the opposite of burn-out. I had not run out of caring. I cared too much. I'm writing this to say that this happens to people. I've heard the same about medical doctors, who become too caring to be dispassionately objective.</p><p></p><p>I agree with Skittles. How wonderful to imagine you out there with your kind heart, caring, and love. Especially for us whose children are vulnerable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 759564, member: 18958"] Dear Jmom I think this was one incident and you need not fear. This is a temporary assignment. Everybody has vulnerabilities and soft spots. places where our strengths fit and our vulnerabilities don't hamper us. You will soon be back in your old beat. But what you describe is a "thing." I have worked nearly all my adult life with people who are vulnerable in one way or another. As I have struggled in my own life, my heart has opened even more. For a long time, my open and soft heart helped. But after a time, i grew too soft. There was a time I felt I couldn't work anymore in my chosen field (prisons) because I had become too caring and too open and too vulnerable. What had always been a gift, the compassion, had become something else. I had to accept that I no longer fit in prisons. It's kind of the opposite of burn-out. I had not run out of caring. I cared too much. I'm writing this to say that this happens to people. I've heard the same about medical doctors, who become too caring to be dispassionately objective. I agree with Skittles. How wonderful to imagine you out there with your kind heart, caring, and love. Especially for us whose children are vulnerable. [/QUOTE]
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