# Transcript

CASSIE:

As a social worker, you need to-- which is hard to do-- you need to learn to be able to recognise when you're stressed and when things are creeping over into your own life and to be able to say to your manager, actually, this is becoming quite difficult, and to say, no, enough's enough now. I'm not going to stay up to whatever time doing case notes tonight, because I need a break and you need to look after yourself. But it is about having a manager who recognises when you're getting to that point. And also, I think, as a newly qualified social worker, there was-- I think-- myself. I had this expectation of-- I need to have done everything. I need to resolve everything. And actually, you never are completely on top of absolutely everything. And you can never solve everything. And you can't control people. And people-- when you're not there-- are going to-- you know, the families you work with, when you're at home, are going to do what they-- even if you've told them not to do something, they will do it. And you can't control that. And I think when you become at ease with that, yourself, and you recognise that, you can take a lot of pressure off yourself, thinking, I've done everything I can do to possibly make the situation safe. And now I'm going to have to go home, and whatever happens happens. And just relax in the fact that you've done everything you possibly can.