Clinical:Trainee area: Reflections on being a trainee

Be aware that you will not only learn things about yourself, but also about your family, friends and partner. Having your eyes opened can be mixed blessing and you may find that your relationships change. This can feel like a path to greater authenticity and a huge privilege to develop personally, or it can feel like you have opened a Pandora's box that can't be re-closed. Sometimes I feel like I would have been better off without these insights, a kind of version of living in the Matrix blissfully unaware of the things living off your brain juice. But most of the time I am glad to have started making progress in viewing myself others and the world in a different light.