Rant from a workplace counsellor

[Clinton1]

Richard and Termite,
I'm not unhappy that this issue has been brought up.

While dealing with the 5% does cause me a bit of stress and I don't like it when I am dealing with what see as very trivial matters:
the flip side to counselling is that you do meet people who have a set of personal circumstances that would cause just about everyone to have problems.

Its these people that the support systems are really there for.

I have to refer suicidal people on to better support agencies, and then maintain a "mate" role with them as additional support.
There is always the fear of there being "the one that slipped through", the "one that I didn't see the signs in".

[DanP]

Mate, there are plenty who 'slip through' the better support agencies too.

Dan

[CameronPotter]

Yeah, I think that most people (make that I HOPE that most people) here were only talking about the trivial cases. Where something serious is wrong, well sometimes you do need some external help and quite possibly help from someone trained for this task. I can't imagine ever being depressed enough to consider suicide - and I hope that I never go through enough bad stuff that I am able to imagine it...

I hope that you guys haven't taken the other comments the wrong way.