Hi,
I woke as a support worker in a residential home for adults with profound learning disabilities and physical disabilities. The residents are mostly non verbal but do communicate through their own way, shouts, cries, banging rattles etc. there is also a lot of physical persons care (hoists, assisted walking) and a hell of a lot of cleaning, house hold tasks, cooking and laundry. I have alway enjoyed the challenges that come with the job and the need for human compassion and empathy it involves but I am now 5months pregnant and am worried about the emotional toll it’s putting on me (can be very hard with very I’ll clients and clients who have quite challenging behaviour and are hard to comfort when very upset) my main concerns at the moment are that I’m worried my baby will hear the cries and shouts of the clients and it will be distressing for the baby as although they are all quite “happy” in their worlds they all are very vocal a lot of the time and t can be audibly quite distressing. My colleagues are kind and helpful but due to alway being understaffed it’s hard to alway accommodate my condition. With my hormones all over the place am getting home and just crying a lot due to the nature of the job. I have been doing this for 12 years and it’s all I do really. Does anyone know any help lines I can contact? I have regularly used cbt and it gets me through day to day but could really do with some talking therapy, a therapy group or just some advice on how to deal with this all.
thank you so much anyone who reads this.
Fi
East Sussex