Advice, please

[pax_felix58@...]

Ave!

Okay, so, my day job is psychiatrist. Why a person of applied 
science is interested in magic and the occult is another discussion. 
In this post I wish to ask for some advice in dealing with a 
situation that is not only mental/emotional but very possibly 
spiritual as well.

For some reason, the people I have seen in the past few days with 
Holiday Depression seem to be both more numerous and more severe than 
in recent years. I remember observing this intensity several years 
ago. Maybe it follows some kind of cycle, or maybe it is something 
that is sensitive to world events. Whatever.

Part of the training of every psychiatrist is maintaining healthy 
emotional boundaries to prevent the disability that would occur if 
one's empathy actually led to contagion of all the pain and chaos one 
encounters every day. Allowing patients' strong emotions to be 
contagious can be absolutely crippling.

But of course nobody is perfect, and the folks I have seen just this 
week have been exhausting. Yesterday a small degree of that 
contagion did occur, and well into the evening I felt their remnants 
of anguish and grief. I had a well-defined feeling of needing to 
take a "psychic shower." It finally passed when I went to bed.

My question is this: Would those with more occult experience than I 
recommend simply Qabalistic Cross, Lesser Banishing Ritual of the 
Pentagram, and Middle Pillar Exercise, or is there something more 
specific to cleansing worth trying?

I am reminded of a brief mention in IIH about "larvae," disincarnate 
thoughtforms created unwittingly by people suffering great pain and 
disorganization, that "stick" to vulnerable passersby. Or something 
like that.

Comments? Advice?

Warmest regards,
Pax Felix