About Me

I now present you, Ms. Rebecca Sanity! 

Yes, believe it or not, therapists are real, living, breathing, mistake-making, human beings, just like you! No capes, no magic tricks, just education, a hell of a gut intuition, and lots of experience.

I wrote this blog to help everyone see life from the other side of the psych ward. Some moments will make you laugh, some will make you cry.

The truth is, at work, every day is a crisis, most days are a matter of life and death for people.

 As a result of that, clinicians that work in our field have a sick sense of humor that would make most people blush or deeply offended by, akin to making dead baby jokes out side of a Planned Parenthood. If we don't laugh about it though, we'd cry ourselves to sleep over a bottle of Jack every night.

Number one question I always get is "How do you deal with the stress every day?" Well, I remind myself that if I help one person in my work, I've accomplished something that day. Little victories!

Few random facts about yours truly:

1. No, I will never reveal myself. Now that would just kill the fun of it, right? All names/facts/locations have been disguised enough to be HIPPA compliant and protect all parties involved. All you need to know is I'm somewhere on the east coast.
2. I NEVER thought I'd be a therapist. I've been in the field over 10 years now, and originally wanted to be in entertainment (no, not entertainer, get your mind out of the gutter, more like TV).
3. I'm single, without children, unless you count four legged. Most days, I feel that my animals are more intelligent than some of my co workers. 
4. I believe that music has an almost healing quality about it. I incorporate it in my daily life, and its what keeps that little bit of sanity still holding on for hope. I know all of the words from "mmmbop" (you know, that horrible song with the brothers that looked like sisters in the early 90s?). That song and about a gazillion others. I may be a real life specimen of a living  jukebox.
5. I am a grown adult child. I enjoy sparkly objects that you'd give a toddler, and my office is scattered with trinkets  to entertain myself with when I'm on horrible phone conference calls (though of course, yeah, they're, uh, "for the kids to play with"...hands off my Hulk pint size twirp!
6. I'm a tough cookie on the outside, but adore girlie treasures, like my four inch pumps. Though I'm pretty sure that anything over two inches is legally considered a weapon and not a pump. I enjoy scaring the hell out of my administrative folks when I have to restrain a kid while wearing said weapons and not missing a beat.

..to be continued *insert Law and Order Theme Song here!*