Working as a librarian gave me PTSD symptoms

No, I left the library because I had begun to burn out and experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.I’d been a school librarian for more than five years before taking a job at a branch within the Washington, D.C., public library system for the last nine months of my career. It is human to deal with the deep internal struggles and burnout this will cause.Maybe it is too much to hope that a movie or a bestseller like Susan Orlean’s “The Library Book” will truly ignite a civic conversation about the conditions of cities and their libraries, about librarians and patrons. The library is one of the few remaining places they have to go.Toward the end of the film, one of the senior librarians passionately declares the public library the nation’s last bastion of democracy.

Source: www.latimes.com