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ProfPacker · 06-21-2014, 10:07 AM

there are many other systems where there are elements of what HB is saying. I know that after many years of working in inpatient psych hospitals, some nurses, social workers, orderlies administrators andpsychiatrists, etc. appear to develop that "thick skin" and (particularly when patients where approved by insurance to stay long stints) develop attitudes to different classes, races and psychiatric diagnoses particularly if they are non-compliant.

even if you are on staff and don't agree with those who have been in the system a long time, you are seen as niave. It is part of the human complexity that sometimes the lack of empathy is puzzling and troubling and the amount of aggression to those who need help is hard to take. Then, one day, you start to say the same things that those who you mocked as being hard ass and not therapeutic are saying and you have to either look at yourself and try to hold onto what you value as a way of treating people or you find yourself, at times, "going over to the other side" as a defense and protection. Very complicated and complex...that is what makes the show interesting. Even the assholes are given moments that the viewer may for a moment hold a different view of that character...until they are a cruel asshole again. Does this make sense?

06-21-2014, 10:07 AM	#26
ProfPacker Member How Do You Identify?: butch/MOC Preferred Pronoun?: Hy/hym/hys but in circumstances like work and some other places she Relationship Status: single Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: nj Posts: 1,365 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,023 Thanked 4,816 Times in 1,187 Posts Rep Power: 21474848	there are many other systems where there are elements of what HB is saying. I know that after many years of working in inpatient psych hospitals, some nurses, social workers, orderlies administrators andpsychiatrists, etc. appear to develop that "thick skin" and (particularly when patients where approved by insurance to stay long stints) develop attitudes to different classes, races and psychiatric diagnoses particularly if they are non-compliant. even if you are on staff and don't agree with those who have been in the system a long time, you are seen as niave. It is part of the human complexity that sometimes the lack of empathy is puzzling and troubling and the amount of aggression to those who need help is hard to take. Then, one day, you start to say the same things that those who you mocked as being hard ass and not therapeutic are saying and you have to either look at yourself and try to hold onto what you value as a way of treating people or you find yourself, at times, "going over to the other side" as a defense and protection. Very complicated and complex...that is what makes the show interesting. Even the assholes are given moments that the viewer may for a moment hold a different view of that character...until they are a cruel asshole again. Does this make sense?