What it’s like to do emergency mental health work
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4 min readNov 30, 2018
It takes a certain personality type work with people in crisis. You arrive at the beginning of each shift with no knowledge of who you’ll work with, where you’ll see them, what they’re dealing with, and whether or not you’ll be able to connect them with the services and support that they need. The pay is a lot less that what you’d expect a licensed clinician would earn, and people in crisis and their…
