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Hug your children

Eliot, a psychiatrist, reads a New York Times article by a California man with a son addicted to speed. He discusses how the article makes him feel:

... As someone who treats detoxing substance users on my psychiatric hospital unit, it is useful for me to have a window into the experience at least some of their loved ones might have. When my ability to be compassionate to one of my patients is frayed, one of the mantras I use to get back to where I want to be in caring for them is to remind myself that this is someone's son or daughter, that this patient was once a babe in arms cuddled and loved by some mother or father. But it also makes me desperate to go and hug my sleeping children, still too young to have been exposed to drugs, and never let go.

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