One of my friends in active recovery is working for the suicide prevention/crisis hotline locally. I am blown away by his ability to keep his head and his sobriety dealing with some of these folks. Not to mention not becoming callous but also no having his heart shattered every time he talks to thes folks.
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Bless them. That’s hard work. We do these jobs (I did for 4.5 years) because we want to give back. Hard work. Low pay. But best work you’ll ever do. We are the survivors, so we are the ones built for it. Most of the industry is made up of peer support. Some “normies” jump in and can tend to struggle.