You Are My Sunshine
I’m a music therapist and was engaging with a client when they became very overstimulated and began to thrash their head extremely hard. I was at the piano and they began to slam their head into the piano, so I used my hands to guard their head.
Both my hands got completely crushed against the piano and I immediately had bruising and swelling. By the way, this was all happening within the first five minutes of the session. I spent the remaining 30 minutes trying to regulate the client.
They left the session and appeared totally regulated. I left in tears. I’ve been off work for two weeks so far and while my bruises are clearing up, I have nerve damage and pain each day (thankfully, no broken bones).
I miss and love my job, but it’s truly not all rainbows and singing “You Are My Sunshine” every day. Story credit: Reddit / oliveyay