Dr. Jenny Taitz

There's some sort of Teflon around me and stress doesn't penetrate.

But I feel I totally understand stress.

I get stressed.

I feel stressed.

I just really try to practice every single thing I prescribe all the time.

You know, in my clinical practice, I feel so honored and lucky to do what I do.

But one of my specialties is working with people that struggle with chronic suicidality.

And so I am often on like kind of on call, like I want to be helpful to people.

And so most of my patients are able to reach me between sessions.

So I

I choose to work with a, you know, kind of like the psychological version of kind of the ER professionally.

And then I have three little kids who are amazing, but there's also a lot of, you know, my son like two nights ago was like,

at nine o'clock after i asked him like consistently since five o'clock realized that he had like a major homework assignment that was like involved me taking pictures of him and like this whole thing i'm like dude like we've talked for four hours like what's due tomorrow nothing nothing nothing and it's a minor stress and that's a pleasurable stress but you know that's in the moment after you've been going since like 6 a.m it's like what's happening now i have to do like

Homework with a eight year old at 9 p.m., which is not his prime time.

Yeah.

So, yeah, the normal stressors and also like, again, like I'm human, like, you know, things, you know, affect me the same way they affect everyone else.

Yeah.

I mean, technically we all have what's referred to as primary emotions, like the first thing that we feel, and then we can easily create secondary emotions.

So I could feel anxious that like, you know, on a small level that like my kid has some project due and I was supposed to email it to his teacher and like, I'm not up to date on the school emails and he totally forgot.

So I could feel like a little small level of anxiety.