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Lemmings who work in Emergency wards at hospitals, do you do therapy for work related issues? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago by lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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My gf works in an emergency ward in a support role (neither doctor nor nurse). I sometimes wonder how things are affecting her. I ask every so often if she's ok, and listen when she rants about things.

But I wonder if therapy would help her. It's a high stress environment even if she's not the one getting her hands dirty.

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[–] Valarie@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 18 hours ago

I work in ems and I don't currently go to therapy but I have previously and may again at some point but that's less work related more personal issues

But trying therapy is never a bad idea if she is willing to try it I say go ahead although as others have said most of the time the work isn't too bad and typically at least in ems we have basically group talks to discuss what happened and work through things in a pseudo therapy kind of setting