Posted by Zo on February 23, 2002, at 1:29:35
In reply to I dont relate well to the mental health community, posted by OldSchool on February 22, 2002, at 21:22:41
Well, the fact is, despite your nick, you are ahead of your time. The idea that we are mostly biology is soooo upsetting to people who've invested lives and careers and selves in the idea that talk can cure. Keep in mind how freakin' lousy meds were, for any kind of depression until very, very recently. When talk was the only hope, of course people pinned their hopes on talk. And there's a lot to be said for really good, deep, accepting and ennobling human exchange. The problem is, people who haven't been there do NOT understand that, for example, when I was in extreme psychic pain, Jesus Himself could have reappeared and it wouldn't have interested me. Unless, of course, He had offered a cure.
It was like years of keeping weekly appointments to discuss the extreme and unrelenting pain of a broken leg--when what was really needed was a cast and a pair of crutches until it healed.
Zo
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