Clinical Communication Reflection

One of the situations I experienced in clinical this week was my conversation with 38 years old man, a man married to a nurse, a father of three girls and a writer, who was in for a dual diagnoses of depression also drug and alcohol use disorder. He was talking to me on how he got into drug and extreme alcohol abuse. He was telling me on how he got injured at his former work place back in 2001 and the whole time he was talking to me I couldn’t help but feel bad for him but at the same time question everything he says because the story just didn’t sound accurate to me it seemed it was a little bit exaggerated in order for the person who here his story feels bad for him and blame his former work place. For example, he stated that after his injury a soon as he got to the hospital he stated they asked him to pee in a cup to test if he had drug in his system and he talk about how that was wrong of them and then
Identifying my feelings were much more difficult than identifying my thoughts, I ‘m not quite sure why but I think it was because I was not fully believing on the things he was telling me about. My though and feeling at this situation was different now looking back about it because at the time In my thought I was in a way questioning everything he was saying but at the same time I was feeling sad about what he went through and also what his family went through because of him.
I think the one specific strategy I will use to focus my attention on my internal states during my clinical days will be just focusing on now and listening to the patients to understand them but not to answer their next question by using therapeutic