We're not healthcare workers. We're disease managers.
I listened to this, as well as other inerviews involving Healthcare workers.
The theme I see is that they are finding themselves a new version of living. They persevere to find purpose while dealing with the past trauma of losing the career that they had invested so much of their time into.
Having been made redundant in the past, I can reasonate with the levels of grief that you must work through. Working life overlaps with personal life. We develop an investment into more than the job we originally signed up for. This is the way of Supportive personalities.
Other personality types deal with it in different ways. Supportives tend to dwell that little bit longer. That is what I see in these nurses.
The reason I see it as a combination of two dualities, of getting on with life, while dealing with grief/loss, is the look in their eyes while they try not to become overwhelmed. To keep it at a rationale level.
I jotted down some words that seem to reoccur in these interviews;
Cruel, Unfair, Horrible, Sad, Traumatised, Informed Consent, Loneliness, Mandates, Burden, Stress, Remorse.
However, there's also an undercurrent of deep positives that come from reflection and inner searching.
** New, Awakening, Awareness, Empathy, Love, Trust, Relationships**
That's where I see the Hope in all of this change. The Awareness that you have been ejected out of your comfort zone. You fall on your butt. You look around in shock expecting somebody to come and pick you up. You feel sorry for yourself.
You feel afraid. You feel angry. You feel betrayed and victimised.
Then your inner voice rallies. You will survive. Now you are unfettered.
Who are you? Who are those around you?
Wallowing isn't going to solve your problem. Get up. Brush yourself off.
Time to muster. Time to galvanise.
That's when you see others with that same look in their eye as you.
Anger can only drive you so far. It burns too much gas for the long journey ahead.
And where are we going again?
One day, you run out of days.
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