Standing on the edge with my patients — abiding with them — means that I must harbor a true awareness that I, too, could lose my child through the play of circumstance over which I have no control. I could lose my home, my financial security, my safety. I could lose my mind. Any of us could.
Christine Montross, Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis
awareness, child, loss, parents, psychiatry, security