Blog and cyber novel by Alex Canton

I commented to a friend that I don't think I could go back to my regular clinical practice, because I'm not sure that I could continue with the routine of being "empathic", where one thinks that it is really posible to get into the client's shoes and "feel" what he may feel.
I think I lost the "objective coldness" which I had.
I remember counseling and writing about the imperativeness of condom usage. And I would do it without taking into acount how a person, perhaps HIV+, may have felt while receiving the information.
Now that I have been able to be closer to people, I have been able to feel their suffering, shame, fears and emotional vulnerability.
Now, with all the new antiretrovirals, there seems to be a false sense of security, and many people are convinced that the possibility of transmission of the virus is almost nill..... but this is not true.
The negative side is that warning about it may bring upon an emotional pain that terrifies me.
Nevertheless, I do have to keep warning that using a condom increases the protection of life for both members of a couple.
And the only way to maintain my "objective coldness" is through writing while not seeing faces.
This is embarrassing, but I'm just human....