therapy comment of the day

[rmd]

so, i saw my shrink today, and we were talking about stuff that sucks when you're a kid, like getting picked on by other kids, and the frustrating tendancy of adults to say "oh, this won't matter to you when you're grown up" and i looked at her and said, as an aside, "which is demonstrably untrue, since i'm paying however much an hour to talk about it with a professional right now..."

*snicker*

Comments

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

I wonder if I could sue the schoolyard bullies of my youth for my therapy bills.

One thing that annoys the hell out of me is adults trivializing or denying the feelings of children. Yeah, children may lack a certain sense of perspective that adults have, but it still hurts, dammit.

[aberdeen.livejournal.com]

I think part of it is a sense of helplessness on the part of the adults. Even knowing the pain from personal experience does not help me make it less painful for the students I work with. I try hard to appreciate the depth of the problem, but there's still very little that I can do to stop it or make it better.