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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.

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Balls of Doom

So my kids have resumed being hilarious.

“I’ll put it on my balls and you can come and get it”

In honor of the beer summit

So I’m not an avid politico by any stretch of the imagination. The general discussion of politics leaves me angry and frustrated, so I’ve decided to avoid them as much as possible unless it touches my daily life.

However, President Obama’s Beer Summit this week couldn’t help but to capture my eye in relation to our [...]

One Year Anniversary

So as of today, July 17th, I’ve been an employee at this Pit of Spontaneity for a year. I’ve been a practicing Music Therapist for a year. I’ve been laughing my ass off and pulling my hair out for a year.

To commemorate this milestone, I’d like to review my immersion into pop music and select [...]