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18-04-2017 07:10 PM
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Re: Topic Tuesday // Staying safe while supporting others // April 18, 7pm AEST
So some of the risks we're hearing includes:
- being triggered
- Emotional exhaustion
- limited time to reflect and recouporate
- getting grumpy/irritable due to lack of sleep/lessened quality of sleep
- not being as effective a listener/advice giver
@Odette - I particulary think it's important to flag what yousaid about not being as effective listening / advice giver because you have highlighted the risk isn't just for us, but also for the person we're trying to support!
A couple I will add include:
- Burn out
- Compassion fatigue
- Secondary traumatic stress (or as @BlueBay said -feeling triggered) - re-experiencing the shared traumatic events, avoidance/numbing of reminders, and/or persistent arousal (e.g., anxiety) associated with the person.
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Re: Topic Tuesday // Staying safe while supporting others // April 18, 7pm AEST
I'm with @BlueBay {waves to BlueBay} - getting triggered is the biggest challenge for me.
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Re: Topic Tuesday // Staying safe while supporting others // April 18, 7pm AEST
Exhaustion. Isoaltion- particularly when you're supporting someone who is going through uncommon experiences. Breaching confidence.
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18-04-2017 07:11 PM
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Re: Topic Tuesday // Staying safe while supporting others // April 18, 7pm AEST
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Re: Topic Tuesday // Staying safe while supporting others // April 18, 7pm AEST
@NikNik sometimes I think that I worry and think of that person I want to help so much that it takes up a lot of my time. Not that I don't want to help, don't get me wrong, I always do. But then I think about them all the time and wonder how they are; if they are okay, if they are alone. I wish I could do more.
But at the end of the day - we (I) need to look after ourselves first and foremost. We can't help others if we are not okay. I feel that would do more harm. That's why sometimes I have a little break from the forum.
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18-04-2017 07:14 PM
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Re: Topic Tuesday // Staying safe while supporting others // April 18, 7pm AEST
You will often hear professionals and probably others in your life bang on about self care. I use to have the misconception that self-care was something I did when I felt myself going downhill – but what I’ve since learnt is that self-care is also a preventative and should be integrated into your life.
I kind of imagine the different aspects of my life, each as a glass of water and I need to keep an eye on when water is getting low in one and top it up.
As someone who provides peer support, self-care is important to you too.
Does anyone want to share what benefits they have seen by integrating self-care into their lives?
How do you do it?
(& don't worry if you can't answer this just now, we will be looking at this in more depth soon!)
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Re: Topic Tuesday // Staying safe while supporting others // April 18, 7pm AEST
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