Work draining

So I'm a support worker. Its emotionally alot. So I cant talk about it for legal and provacy reasons but some days I'm just at work exhausted and just you are expected to be emotionless in highly emotional settings. Sometimes with the families and sometimes ypu get styached to these people as you see them improve. It can be very difficult and sometimes you have coworkers you work with who have different ideas in the midst of that and its hard to not want to help the person so you are conflicted between your job and doing whats best to avoid a fuss. Can be hard. Other times the clients absolutely disgust you and you got to pretend its not fucked up for a 19 year old girl to piss the bed or her creepy dad to threaten to kill you for doing your job... like I have a client we are supposed to do physio exercises but my coworker doesnt want to. Bosses say do but people who are with me dont want it as might make them do more work. I'm happy to but want to maintain peace I strongly believe in it too that its helping this stroke victim... but if i do it will piss off my coworkers. It can be hard in that context I enjoy seeing the progression to try to cure this person, to feel I'm really helping. I feel guilt if I dont do it some days like I'm not doing my job and I'm a bad guy. Maybe I am. I can see her progress over months and its my dream to see this woman walk as a man I just feel it is a duty to help this woman and her family. Her husband seems to care about her and I am very different to this man but I have respect for life and for their families right to be happy, taken care of properly, with dignity and the fact the human emotion of love they feel is a real thing. Who am I to not do what I can? I think sometimes this job is easy sometimes its difficult to deal with.

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anonymous Work August 03, 2025 at 4:29 am 0 0