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(((Dinah))) I got the message about you

Posted by 64bowtie on January 6, 2005, at 2:50:05

In reply to Re: (((Dinah))) Pardon me for being a noodge... » 64bowtie, posted by Dinah on January 5, 2005, at 6:55:41

(((Dinah))),

I'm clear about you and your situation... Saw you clearly awhile back. What I'm wondering is about the mental health community being overwhelmed and retreating to meds instead of good old fashioned hard work.

Remember, dear person, that you and I don't seem to be on the same page about group therapy being a step up and out and away from the one on one (expensive) stuff... I see a huge amount of growth because the, "Duh! Ahah! Wow! Shazam!" stuff happens for many folks all at the same time improving the significance of the growth of each and all.

Group can last up two hours, sometimes several times per week, without finacial failure. After all, going to church is similar to going to group.

Growth happens as pain-growth-joy! ...throughout all mental health successes world wide. What is so different about group is that the group has a sublime hold of accountability on the individual, reducing back-sliding and failure. Its evidence of peer-propping-up the individual by the many clients.

Meds don't seem to improve the group experience anymore than two or more groups per week seems to help; multiple meetings do something that meds do the opposite of. They clear the vision by holding the clients attention, whereas meds tend to cloud the vision, delaying the "witness" phenomenon of seeing the door open and awareness of safety toward going through that door. For adults, the visual cortex stores the new information that can hold the keys to successful recovery.

If we take a client and poke out one or both eyes, the client can no longer see the new stuff without the other senses translating so that the "mind's eye" can do something productive with the info. Vision is the forte of the foreground functioning of the visual cortex. The "mind's eye" is the background functioning of visual cortex. Dreams and dreaming is background awareness and "mind's eye" functioning at its best.

Moral of the story? Don't do stuff to cloud the ability to see! Now, have you read or heard anyone else talking about meds clouding the vision of the client thus delaying progress???

I'm very "un-worried" about your progress! You have made great progress even in the last 90 days!!! I'm concerned about the industrywide habits (bad and good)...

Rod


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