Posted by noa on May 21, 2003, at 19:34:55
In reply to Re: Next therapist please...KL and all, posted by lostsailor on May 20, 2003, at 19:26:10
>>I am seriously thinking about joining the Peace Corps, Salvation Army or Red Cross to get to somewhere 'sane" like Afghanistan...Today after researching though, I found that it is really hard to get into the PC,
BTW, the Peace Corp can be very hard on the volunteers' mental health. A lot of them are very isolated, which can drive a lot of people over the edge. My therapist has done work for the peace corps doing therapy by phone, etc. and evaluating if someone should come back to the states for treatment. From what he tells me it doesn't sound like the best situation for someone already in the throes of struggling with depression, etc. And, I guess, as you say about how hard it is to get in, I bet they screen for such vulnerability.
Maybe you are on the right track, though, and should get involved locally in a project of some sort.
I have been thinking something similar. Lately I have been feeling like I am tired of all my self-absorption and should get back into volunteering. I used to volunteer regularly at a hospital program but the program shut down. I started to look into another volunteer opportunity after that, and visited, got the papers to fill out, etc. and then September 11th hit, and I never got back on track with that.
I should. I think it could help me put things in perspective better.
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