Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: home-based offices as safety risk to children

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On Nov 17, 2004, at 10:22 AM, Emily Pitt wrote:

>  that people who need therapy can be stigmatized.

Years a go when I worked in an inpatient mental health facility for 
adolescents we had one 17-year-old who resisted any kind of self 
analysis and had little to do with anyone else on the unit. Then when 
she was released, she started voluntarily returning for group therapy 
sessions. When we asked her what happened, she said that when she was 
"in" she resented people thinking she "needed" therapy. Now that she 
was out, she realized she needed therapy to deal with the people "out 
there." They needed the therapy.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org