Thank you for sharing. In reply to this, I have no perfect way of releasing the emotion from work.. one trick is i allow myself to chew the events of the shift till i drive past one spot on my way home: then they have to stay there. But that doesn't always work...
Way back in the early 90's, i was looking after lovely young AIDS patients as a grad and i found, as the disease consumed them i would frequently be running to the loo balling my eyes out. When i talked to the charge nurse, i remember saying "i just have to stop caring quite so much, then i won't be crying" He said in response "The moment you stop caring so much is the moment i don't want you on this ward!! You just have to learn how to channel it: turn it into something positive." I will never forget those words and i'm happy to share them now...