support therapy
Scottie Bowman (bowman@mail.indigo.ie)
Fri, 03 Apr 1998 08:40:01 +0000
`...Mental health is a mystery, still, and so much of it is due
to the chemical soup swimming in our bodies and our brains...'
Tim obviously knows a great deal more about mental illness than
the rest of us. His psychiatric buddy who `completely fixes' his
patients with the same facility that his medical colleagues fix
their diabetic patients seems to have made a convert.
(Incidentally, I wonder how many people there are on the list
with diabetes who lives have been freed by insulin, who never
have to worry each day about their diet, can forget their blood
levels, their exercise, their monthly attendance at the clinic ...?)
I hope his reassurance & advice to Helena to keep taking
the medicine doesn't come across as too condescending. I'm afraid
if I were in her shoes I should feel ever so slightly stigmatised
or even `weekened'.
Actually, I feel a tiny bit stigmatised myself with that final
little scream:
`...eek, I sure hope we don't sound like a "mens' club"; yuck!..'
What's that meant to mean ? You can scarcely move around here
for the throngs of beautiful lady Ozzies - but even if it were
otherwise what's so terrible about men's associations ? I hope
Tim doesn't feel inclined to make this kind of crack about the
Roman Curia or the Dalai Lama's outfit.
Scottie B.