Re: Rough

Guy King wrote:

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I think that proper psychotherapy is very good for the relatively small proportion of people who have major ongoing problems. However, proper psychotherapy is expensive and time consuming, so often the zbarl is spent on much less beneficial counselling for large numbers of people, many or most of whom would have got over it anyway with a bit of common sense care like Kate provided.


And probably quicker for not sitting in a hall picking at the scabs.

More or less what I thought at the time. I remember telling some of them that they had the right to remain silent: while some folk would love to pump them for all the gory details, those people had no right to them unless they were a police officer, and if they didn't want to tell anyone, they needn't. However, as a disinterested but sympathetic party, I was willing and able to listen to anyone yell, cry or get angry about it if they wanted me to, either in the lesson or at another time. Anything they said at the time would not be passed to a third party unless they expressly requested me to do so.

Not a good week, but there was never any doubt about who did it (too many witnesses, I think), and after a suitable time and a memorial service, they sensibly got on with their exam work.
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