Mental Health Support

Doing that job certainly requires some lack of human connection or one could not get past the patient's pain in order to help them heal.

It's just that we family members usually had to pay the price for that. I mean... it dawned on me a while back that my mother had never told me that she loved me in the first person. She has said that she did in the third person, as in she would tell someone else this with me in the room, but I don't recall her ever saying it directly to me. That is an aspect of what I mean when I say that she had a certain level of disconnect with her own offspring. The fact that our positive appearance in public was more impotent than either of us being in danger (unless our being in danger made her look bad as a parent) or getting hurt was another clue. (The ole "Stop crying where people can see you!" crap. I was freaking eight.)