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Grief Counselling A Waste Of Time, Say Psychologists
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 6-4-2005
| Raj Persaud
Posted on 06/03/2005 6:34:39 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
06/03/2005 6:34:40 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Okay then. I 've been saying this for 20 years. What is my prize?
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posted on
06/03/2005 6:37:09 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Something wicked this way comes)
To: blam
Why, the researchers then asked, do bereaved people with "uncomplicated" grief fail to benefit from "grief work"? They concluded that the most common difficulty suffered by bereaved people is emotional loneliness: the feeling of being utterly alone, even when in the company of friends and family. This type of loneliness, they say, only abates with time and nothing can be done to aid recovery. I once put a dog to sleep. I was sad. Then I got a new dog.
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posted on
06/03/2005 6:40:43 PM PDT
by
Focault's Pendulum
(I just got my free credit report....cost me $69.95......I'm not paying the bill. I'm doomed!!)
To: blam
This makes me so sad I don't know what to do.
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posted on
06/03/2005 6:41:06 PM PDT
by
Jagman
To: Bahbah
Me too. The people I knew in college and elsewhere who went into counseling usually had two things in common:
1) A fear of *real* math, and
2) Their own lives were screwed up.
I've gotten over my own "losses" on my own just fine, thanx.
To: blam
What ever happened to quiet fortitude?
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posted on
06/03/2005 6:42:05 PM PDT
by
Colosis
(Der Elite Møøsenspåånkængruppen ØberKømmååndø (EMØØK))
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To: Bahbah
Your prize is the great swell of satisfaction you may enjoy, knowing that you have more sense than 80% of the general population...and I will share it with you!
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posted on
06/03/2005 6:42:53 PM PDT
by
JudyinCanada
(I can't wait, the dream is coming true and I will stand in front of the box to put my heart into it.)
To: Jagman
this makes me so sad I don't know what to do
Become a grief counselor to all the about-to-be-unemployed grief counselors, of course. :-)
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posted on
06/03/2005 6:43:23 PM PDT
by
cgbg
(When do I wake up from this socialist nightmare?)
To: Focault's Pendulum
Focault's Pendulum wrote:
I once put a dog to sleep. I was sad. Then I got a new dog.
--No fair! I could never replace the beloved Jumbo Shrimp from outback steakhouse that i popped into my mouth. All the other jumbo shrimp just look the same.
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posted on
06/03/2005 6:44:51 PM PDT
by
1FASTGLOCK45
(FreeRepublic: More fun than watching Dem'Rats drown like Turkeys in the rain! ! !)
To: blam
"There is no evidence that all bereaved people will benefit from counselling, and research has shown no benefit to arise from the routine referral of people to counselling for no other reason than that they have suffered bereavement." Well duh. Counseling is for serious stuff. Grief is a part of life not a emotional disorder.
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posted on
06/03/2005 6:45:03 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(I am not a romantic, I don't hero worship and no, as a matter of fact, I don't have a heart.)
To: blam
I would go as far to say that most of the counseling actually leads to more problems. Because then people think they aren't even grieving normally. How did the world survive without all this counseling?
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posted on
06/03/2005 6:46:28 PM PDT
by
TXBubba
( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
To: Felis_irritable
I've said for a long time that anyone who goes into psychology or social work does so to figure out what is wrong with themselves. I've yet to find an instance where this is demonstrably not true - most, when questioned, will admit it.
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posted on
06/03/2005 6:46:38 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(The U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government)
To: Felis_irritable
This has been going on for quite awhile. Every time somebody stubs their toe, schools or government or social agencies start running around telling everybody that they need to "talk about it" or they'll go blind...no that's not this...wait a minute..never mind.
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posted on
06/03/2005 6:47:52 PM PDT
by
skimbell
To: JudyinCanada
LOL. I am honored to share my prize with you.
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posted on
06/03/2005 6:48:13 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Something wicked this way comes)
To: blam
The only Rx for grief is time, not time on the shrinks couch either.
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posted on
06/03/2005 6:49:53 PM PDT
by
jwalsh07
To: blam
please... "Grief Counseling" is nothing more than a business at best and a scam at worst!!!
read the Careless Society by John McKnight... it traces it's roots back to around 1850 and it was just a business to make money
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posted on
06/03/2005 6:49:54 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: blam
Good.
Much of modern psychiatry causes more problems than it solves. The "Recovered memory" phenomenon is one example; these people are destroying innocent families and belong in prison.
Sigmund Freud tried to talk people out of schizophrenia his whole career, and failed utterly. The only psychiatry that really works is based on pills, and even that is pretty primitive.
-ccm
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posted on
06/03/2005 6:51:24 PM PDT
by
ccmay
(Question Diversity)
To: blam
We lost one of our children in February.
Does anyone have any wisdom on how to cope with the hell that is my life now?
To: blam
Phooey! "Deep psychological problems" are a fidget of the imaginization.
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posted on
06/03/2005 6:53:15 PM PDT
by
azhenfud
("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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