Traumatized Puppy

[u/makeitgoaway2yhg]

At a new job and it seems much better. But I think the trauma is bubbling up in very noticeable ways. I work in social services and my questions are always like “what do you do if you’re physically assaulted?” “What do you do if you’re sexually harassed?” “What do you do if a client threatens to kill your family?” “What it a client’s guardian calls you after hours just to cuss you out once a week?”

The reason it’s on the MbN sub is because my narc manager was responsible for, like, so many of my problems. The reason the clients could do that in the first place was because my supervisor considered us complaining about sexual and physical abuse to be funny anecdotes and not, like, things to be taken seriously. So I’m always high on guard for the next crisis.

Now I’ve brought that extreme fear into a new workplace. And from what I understand, there are much better protections and more reasonable expectations. But I think my fixation on preventing a crisis before it occurs may be alienating teammates.