I don’t even know where to put this post, I just feel like I have to get it out of my head. I work in child welfare and was supervising a parenting time. This is where a birth parent who doesn’t have custody of their child comes to visit with their child at our agency while supervised. The parent was very agitated and beginning to get out of hand so I had to end the visit early. Things just blew up from there. The parent physically assaulted me, threaten to kill me, forcefully locked me in lobby… it was horrible. Of course I called 911 and thankfully there was another staff to assist me in getting the kids to safety but it was so scary. I just can’t stop shaking; even now hours later. Seriously folks, if you know a social worker, hug them. We work HARD. For shit money. I can barely buy groceries right now yet this is what I have to put up with to keep food on my table. It’s just all too much. And now I have to figure out how to go to sleep (ha, yea right) and do it all over again tomorrow. I feel like I’m hitting my breaking point.