The Crazy Music Lady

Inherent Dangers of the Job

I’m going to try really hard to keep this from being a post about how seriously bad ass I am.

Really hard.

Being a therapist is difficult work. It’s not only emotionally draining most days, but occasionally physically demanding. Especially in Psych.

Today I had the honor of being ‘blooded’ in my first fight. Thankfully, I was not [...]

God Save The Children

So here recently, I had to update my CPR and defense skills.

I honestly forget just how dumb people can be. And that’s pretty bad, because I don’t necessarily consider myself the brightest crayon in the box, either.

I had the pleasure of brushing up on these skills in the presence of Dr. White, and I’ll have [...]

In the words of Britney: You Drive Me Craaaazy

I wrestled with presenting this story for two reasons:

1) I have not yet written the blog post I mentioned I would be posting.

and..

2) it’s all about boundaries AGAIN!

But then I had a growth moment and realized that if you’re working child and adolescent psych and there are no boundary issues with a patient, that child [...]

Find out what it means to me!

So one of the things I’m really excited about in starting my own business is how I won’t be forced (I know I will to some extent) to work with people for whom I have no respect. I could choose not to work with those people within private practice; I’d just be out money.

Now before [...]

Boundaries pt. 2

So I know I just posted about boundaries, but thanks to my friendly workplace, I’ve been given more examples tell you about. Sorry I’m not changing up content. I’m going to post two separate incidences as two posts, mainly because the second one is more of a respect issue than it is a boundaries. Although, [...]

Music Therapy Round Table

Also, I have to give a big THANKS! to the Music Therapy Round Table and the free publicity!

If you haven’t checked out their podcast, or these awesome ladies, be sure to. They are all included in my blogroll, but in case that is challenging, here are their links!

Michelle Erfurt

Rachel Rambach

Kimberly Sena Moore

Thanks again ladies!

Boundaries

A common issue in psychiatry is boundaries. Most of our patients either have none, or over do it. Each patient is different, so there isn’t really a set of diagnoses who adhere to one extreme or the other, although there are some trends.

The kids that tend to hang out with us the longest, however, have [...]

Changes

Kimberly, over at Music Therapy Maven, has been posting a wonderful series about starting your own private practice. She actually managed to run this series so that it directly coincided with my plans to get the hell out of dodge.

Since beginning the planning of this endeavor, it’s made me look at this blog again and [...]

Diplomacy

So if there is one thing working this long in the system I have worked has taught me, it is that there are a lot of stupid people in the world. Not necessarily low IQ stupid, but just no common sense/no interpersonal skills/oblivious stupid. Through the aid of my good friends, I have learned to [...]

Threats on your life

Part of working in psychiatry is the inevitable toll it will take on yourself. Transference, counter transference, not to mention all of our own defense mechanisms being thrown at us one by one. And not even beginning to touch on the truth coming from the mouths of babes on harsher tongues than our own. The other [...]