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Hi @eudemonism and @utopia and all,
I myself have worked in both public and private hospitals for 20+ years and I know a little bit about how the professionals operate.
Firstly, I want to give health care professionals their due- they do an extremely difficult and stressful job, often with limited resources. I take my hat off to them. It is hard work.
Secondly- and this is not something the professionals talk about to patients- they have a lot of rules to conform to. It's not their job to give their personal opinion on who you are as a person and the personality traits that you might have that they find appealing or not-so-appealing, as a fellow human being.
They have to maintain their distance. They have to attempt to help you with the symptoms you present with. Some of them may be extremely "kind" and other may be more abrupt and gruff. Even the kind ones have to operate within the rules, or they risk losing their careers and their livelihood.
The professionals have to practice 'evidence based medicine'. This means they have to treat you with methods that have been proven statistically to work. (Whether these methods work for you personally is open to debate.)
When you walk in the door of a doctor's or therapist's office, you are basically getting the same service that every one of their hundreds of other patients is getting. You are not being treated any differently than they would treat anyone else. It isn't personal. It may certainly feel personal, but it isn't.
I hope this helps!
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