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Whatever, Let's Have A Goddamn Blog Thread, But Try And Keep It Reasonable
Sox:
I am still struggling to get over the fact that there is an entire continent where it's normal to have a shrink. We don't even have therapists in the UK, we just drink our worries away.
David_Dovey:
The way God intended.
jmrz:
I can't get the original thing I wanted now anyway because he knows what it is. So I think I might just get a bunch of awesome stuff and wrap it all up in a big box and he'll have lots of things to investigate/play with on Christmas Day.
I dunno, I just love buying the perfect presents for people and seeing how happy they are with it.
For reference: I was going to buy him this: http://www.gadgetizer.com/2005/09/27/homestar-planetarium/
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Sox on 24 Nov 2008, 01:19 ---I am still struggling to get over the fact that there is an entire continent where it's normal to have a shrink. We don't even have therapists in the UK, we just drink our worries away.
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Well we do, of course. I saw a therapist for a few months after my divorce. It helped, as did one month on antidepressants, but in the end it was no more than a reminder that I have my own worth - which I knew well enough, but it was a good time to be reminded... But the idea of having a therapist at the age of eight - I mean, what are parents for? How can they be so blind to what are surely (in nearly all cases) simply their failings?
Blogginess:
Now that I have finished the electric wiring, they are plastering the walls of our kitchen; tomorrow it gets a floor, and then the cupboards and so on get installed. And there's water coming in to the ceiling of my bedroom. Bleah.
Elizzybeth:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 24 Nov 2008, 01:51 ---But the idea of having a therapist at the age of eight - I mean, what are parents for? How can they be so blind to what are surely (in nearly all cases) simply their failings?
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By the same token, the earlier parents provide a space for their children to engage in open, non-value-judgmental communication, the better. And if parents recognize that they are unable to provide that for their kids, taking them to a therapist is a logical (and, I believe, ethical) next step.
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