Posted by pixies chick at 1cust39.tnt1.minneapolis3.mn.da.uu.net on May 22, 2002 at 20:06:33:
In Reply to: Not yet but posted by adamapple on May 22, 2002 at 19:39:39:
: If they reach out, speak out about what has been done to them, no.
: But if they bottle it up inside, they become what they used to hate and fear. Victims go on to either heal, self-abuse or victimize.
: Adam
If you want to know what I mean about things getting better.
It's on my mind because I was posting about him a few minutes ago, but listen to this song, "You think you know somebody" by Todd Snider.
We're kind of in the same deal right now. I don't work in the same field - I work in health promotion, and I'm the main health educator on a smoking cessation project. You know the clients, so I don't need to tell you the comorbidity on that. A lot of people have some real deep pain that they can't reach yet. Sometimes they start with me because it's so tangible to say you want to quit smoking or drugs.
We'll get there.
I just finished a project on therapeutic intervention with victims of torture in cross cultural counseling situations. Mary Pipher wrote a book about it, and she asked one of her clients how we help people who have been tortured, lost their families, their identity, their culture, and have faced so many horrors.
The client said, "Tell them to get a kitten."
It's not bad advice.
Do you think you might want a kitten?