tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990890778229196792.post1766952597995834085..comments2024-03-25T00:30:44.421-07:00Comments on Veterinarians Behaving Badly: PTSD and the vet- true, but not funnywebhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05938934194973454729noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990890778229196792.post-38035790569618674682013-02-05T18:27:35.079-08:002013-02-05T18:27:35.079-08:00How horrible! I wish you all the best. Just know t...How horrible! I wish you all the best. Just know that not all <a href="http://www.aashneanimalhospital.com" rel="nofollow">veterinarians mesa az</a> are like that./Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04847165443091752114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990890778229196792.post-12599323923927344762012-07-27T12:21:03.448-07:002012-07-27T12:21:03.448-07:00I wish you the best. This post made me want to gi...I wish you the best. This post made me want to give you internet hugs. *hug*Fenixmagichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09217206591409063133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990890778229196792.post-16507976310972401422012-05-11T09:07:41.739-07:002012-05-11T09:07:41.739-07:00Take care of yourself and your family.Take care of yourself and your family.Obewon Kenobihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14498322378638279970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990890778229196792.post-67647139382398615962012-05-11T08:32:57.300-07:002012-05-11T08:32:57.300-07:00Get help now. I was almost paralyzed before I cou...Get help now. I was almost paralyzed before I could get up the energy to do it. It took a kick in the pants by some other VBB authors. We are people that are taught not to ask for help...but we need someone and something outside of ourselves in order to get better. I see a light at the end of the tunnel....and I am hoping that it is not the train.SMHDVMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07631495097000738780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990890778229196792.post-28938256324184056812012-05-11T06:48:04.816-07:002012-05-11T06:48:04.816-07:00I'm a veterinarian with PTSD. I experience fl...I'm a veterinarian with PTSD. I experience flashbacks. I am hypervigilant and startle very easily. I also have compassion fatigue. This is not a nice combination.<br /><br />For a while I was paying a therapist cash, so my insurance company wouldn't discover I was in therapy and either raise my rates or drop me entirely. It helped somewhat, but what has helped most is leaving full-time veterinary practice. Now, I practice part-time in addition to another part-time, non-practice job. I can't wait to leave practice entirely, which I no doubt would have done long ago if the recession hadn't happened. Clients and their needs bleed me dry, and even on the best days, it's an ordeal to go to my practice job (in contrast, I love my other job). I try for my patients but this job will kill me if I continue for the 25-30 years I have ahead of me before retirement age.AnonRJShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08795944690648050732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990890778229196792.post-91772643650413570452012-05-10T22:28:45.316-07:002012-05-10T22:28:45.316-07:00Wow. I couldn't sleep tonight because I keep t...Wow. I couldn't sleep tonight because I keep thinking about those few cases that wreck my day (or week). So many good experiences, but only the bad ones linger and I can't stop thinking about it until the next bad experience comes along for me to obsess over. I keep going over and over in my head if there was something else I could have said or done that would have made client relations go over smoother or helped the animal any more than I already did. It's the struggle with hindsight. It's that paranoia that a case where you've done everything right will still go wrong. It's that feeling that things have been going too well for too long - something must go wrong soon - maybe as you're laying in your bed thinking about it! It's that worry that one of your cases that you sent home because they couldn't afford to keep the dog in the hospital is getting sicker and there's nothing you can do about it because the owners haven't come in for a checkup and you can't seem to reach them on any of their numbers. And somehow they're going to blame you when their pet gets worse.<br /> I was just wondering if I should talk to someone about this. Somehow I thought that checking in with VBB would make me feel a little better. I'm not happy to see that other vets are also suffering - and more severely than me. But it helps to know I'm not the only one (well, duh, but you know what I mean). Thank you for making this post. It couldn't have come at a better time for me.VBB fanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17802555912768959009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990890778229196792.post-43184323335014575822012-05-10T22:26:17.051-07:002012-05-10T22:26:17.051-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.VBB fanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17802555912768959009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990890778229196792.post-7638336923517068472012-05-10T21:40:49.303-07:002012-05-10T21:40:49.303-07:00I work with children and have an anxiety disorder;...I work with children and have an anxiety disorder; though clearly not as serious as your condition I do on some level feel your pain. <br /><br />Keep fighting it, keep focusing on the good, and eventually we'll both get to the point where we know that no matter what anyone else is saying we're doing the best job we can and nobody can say otherwise.Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05725377560719527793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990890778229196792.post-88544116720275962502012-05-10T20:48:33.782-07:002012-05-10T20:48:33.782-07:00I commend and sympathise with your daily struggles...I commend and sympathise with your daily struggles! <br />I share the heart pounding stress when discussing quotes for treatment, or the fear to answer the phone at work. I hope my nurses don't think its because I'm the vet and I'm "too good" to answer the phone, but the thought of not knowing what to say or how to help scares the hell out of me! I have had my home phone disconnected and I communicate through texts and emails, so work is the only place that I have to deal with unknown people on a daily basis. <br /><br />I always knew it would be the hardest part of my job. But I continue to do it because I love the difference that I can make in each animal's life, and over time I have developed fantastic and lasting relationships with some of my clients. I am 10 years in and hope that I can continue for many more. I wish clients realised that everyone standing behind a counter, or on the other end of the phone or wherever they meet them, are just people too...trying to get by!utechick79https://www.blogger.com/profile/09328405224330525787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990890778229196792.post-7781192448835145722012-05-10T20:23:52.488-07:002012-05-10T20:23:52.488-07:00I'm sorry for your struggles but I thank you f...I'm sorry for your struggles but I thank you for the courage to go to work every day and (maybe) care for my beloved pets.The Nursehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05804492211606767585noreply@blogger.com