Question:
Hi Rose! > Check out Irvin Yalom and Scott Peck, both (MD) psychiatrists.
I looked up the first one. Couldn’t concentrate on any of the references.:/ Do you mean that they wrote the quotation? Smile and there will be something to smile about! Nancy
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"They are survivors if you don’t have respect for their strength you can’t be of any help. It’s a privilege that they let you in. There’s no reason they should trust you- none. You can’t know their terror- a nightmare from which you never awaken. It’s unrelenting. There is no safety: no one, no time, no place, no thing- All was tainted. Hope was obliterated- time and time again. That they are in you office is in itself a supreme act of valor
Response:
that wasn’t my own writing. I found it on the website for River Oaks hospital and it had no author. but it describes my feelings pretty accurately.
Response:
Hi Lumpy! > that wasn’t my own writing. I found it on the website for River Oaks hospital > and it had no author. but it describes my feelings pretty accurately.
It describes my feelings in the beginning of therapy too. It also describes my feelings whenever I am forced to change therapists (which has now happened twice in the last 10 or so years). IME ptsd-trained therapists believe this also when dealing with us. The rest of the therapy crowd usually doesn’t understand this POV. Smile and there will be something to smile about! Nancy
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