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[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

There's a story behind it that's not casual, so I'll kinda shorthand it.

But, I had a patient years and years ago that started out in a really bad state. It took months of working with her to make any progress for a ton of reasons.

But she was the very first person to call me their teddy bear.

Which wasn't really the nice part, it was the follow up.

I laughed it off and said I am/was pretty hairy.

And she said that it wasn't that, it was that she always felt safe and loved when I hugged her.

It was a pretty damn big deal to hear that. Again, for a ton of reasons that aren't casual, I needed to hear something like that at the time.

[-] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 6 points 1 month ago

There's no better feedback than a patient you've made a difference to. If you only do one thing in life, you've done that

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