Dr. Eric Bender

they're sad, they're happy, they're married, they're divorced, they've lost somebody, they've sold their company, they've created a business, their household name now, all those things.

They made a professional team.

So I find it a privilege and I always remember that.

And that helps me with any kind of compassion fatigue.

It's like, I get to do this and they're choosing to do this with me.

They could choose anybody that's in the mental health world and they've chosen me.

So that helps me.

The thing I get most fatigued with is not so much compassion.

It's more the focus for 50 minutes on somebody.

Cause I have 50 minute sessions.

Sometimes I just do 45.

And when you have a number of those back to back, it's like, whoa, I gotta, I gotta make sure in the middle of the day, I have a break just to be able to reset.

And I don't save enough room sometimes for people at the end of the day.

So if I've finished eight, nine, 10 sessions and someone says to me,

How was your day?

Like, oh, it's fine.

That's all I say.

That's it.

And we move on to the next thing.

So I think that's really tiring just to be able to do that.