Gardener, I'm a mental health counsellor. I work with individuals with serious psychiatric disorders usually schizophrenia, depression etc. Much of the population I work with are duo diagnosed with a mental illness and develpmental disorder. Most of these individuals have been out of the workforce for many years and many have never worked. The program I work with provides vocational assessments, goal setting, developing work skills and counselling around getting back into the workforce even part time. When people have been ill for a long time or living on the streets even basic work skills like arriving on time are difficult. Anyway, that's what I do. So, I talk to people about loss and disappointment etc all the time. Btw, my Naturopath phoned and left me a voice mail telling me my last test showed my Adrenal Fatigue is back to where it was six months ago. It's like starting all over again. Very disappointing!
