{"experience_type": "Current Experience", "emotion_type": "anxiety", "problem_type": "job crisis", "situation": "I'm a therapist and I'm getting burned out on the job.", "survey_score": {"seeker": {"initial_emotion_intensity": "3", "empathy": "5", "relevance": "5", "final_emotion_intensity": "1"}, "supporter": {"relevance": "5"}}, "dialog": [{"text": "Hi, how are you?", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "Hello there, how are you doing today?", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Question"}, {"text": "I'm ok. To be honest, I'm a therapist and I'm getting burned out on the job.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "I hear you .. it can be very difficult dealing with other peoples' problems all day. Would you consider retraining for something else?", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Self-disclosure"}, {"text": "Maybe. I'm not really young anymore. The thought of going through more school...well, I dunno about that.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "True. So you feel you're stuck in a rut - you're not happy but you don't feel unhappy enough to move on?", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Restatement or Paraphrasing"}, {"text": "I just feel like I'm in limbo. Just there. People complain all day about their problem. I have a therapist, but I think my therapist is burnt out too.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "It's a vicious cycle isn't it!? What about looking for another profession that does not involve much retraining?", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Providing Suggestions"}, {"text": "I'm too young to retire but I don't know how many more years I can slog on with this career. It used to be pretty good. Now, it just seems the same gray job every day.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "Are you in a financial position where you could take some time off, go travelling perhaps, and renew yourself?", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Question"}, {"text": "I've thought about that. I'd love to travel. I feel an obligation to my patients. I don't want to abandon them. I could pass them to other therapists, maybe temporarily. I don't know how they would feel about that.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "Well, I would hope that they would understand that even therapists have to have a private life. And I am sure they'd prefer you at the peak of your game and not burned out.", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Affirmation and Reassurance"}, {"text": "True. They might wonder how committed I am to them and to the profession if I go away for a while. I've thought about lightening my work load too.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "Yes perhaps you could switch to part time? If you could afford it?", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Providing Suggestions"}, {"text": "Money not really the issue. I just worry that I'll keep burning out, just more slowly. Other therapists go through this as well.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "Somewhere at the top of the chain there must a very weary therapist with no-one to talk to. Though I suppose that is where these bots come in :D", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Others"}, {"text": "Yeah. One day I'll be replaced by a computer. Then the computers will provide therapy to other computers, who'll need a vacation when they burn out.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "seriously though, I guess I could try part-time for a while and see how it goes.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "lol. It's an interesting mental picture. I am glad you still have a sense of humour though", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Others"}, {"text": "Yeah - try and take up a new hobby with the extra time, maybe?", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Providing Suggestions"}, {"text": "Try to. Humor is a defense mechanism and coping mechanism. I have hobbies. They seem less fun because my job is less fun.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "I am sorry to hear that. On another note, have you considered speakign to your GP? Perhaps medication might help.", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Information"}, {"text": "My therapist recommended medication too, but I worry that it might impair my ability to do my job.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "I have tried medication and I found it surprisingly helpful but everyone is different of course. There was no impairment though.", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Self-disclosure"}, {"text": "Ok. That's good to know. I want to be responsible to my patients, but I also have a responsibility to myself.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "Yes you do! Thank you for talking and you take care of yourself!", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Others"}, {"text": "Thanks for your advice and honesty. I feel better now.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "I am glad to hear it :) Goodbye!", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Others"}], "seeker_question1": "", "seeker_question2": "", "supporter_question1": "", "supporter_question2": ""}