My disease appeared when I was young (about forty years ago). I realized that my moodiness was different from other children, but thanks to my parents, I saw it as a character defect rather than the symptom of an illness that I did not get properly treated until two years ago.
This is basically the point Heather and Dorothy Rowe were making.
]]>I obviously confused the issue by throwing the (largely irrelevant idea) in that psychiatry and psychology and their pop variants used to usually tend to blame the parents and now blamed the kids.
Clearly, not everyone subscribed to this idea. Parents who feels guilty will blame the kid if it means not facing up to their part in the kid’s suffering. (That’s everyone’s response to guilt – not just parents) Kids lack the power and confidence to challenge this. They are too scared, among other things susch as – they naturally tend to take their parents as knowing what’s true so are likely to accept their parents’ idea of them as bad or mad..
Drugging them out of expressing their feelings is just a bad idea. And it seems to store up some real problems for the future.
]]>My disease appeared when I was young (about forty years ago). I realized that my moodiness was different from other children, but thanks to my parents, I saw it as a character defect rather than the symptom of an illness that I did not get properly treated until two years ago.
So I suppose all kids clock back and forth, but some of us have extremes. And I don’t buy that in the mid-Twentieth Century it was all “blame the parent”. My parents and the parents of many other children of the sixties deftly ignored the psychiatrist’s advice and piled plenty of guilt and emotional and physical suffering on the innocents.
Kids were just as scared back then, if not more so. We didn’t have the array of teachers, social workers and the like looking out for us. We were told that we were “bad kids” if we exhibited symptoms.
Pundits should watch making rash generalizations, IMHO, especially when they don’t have the full facts before them or want to admit what they actually are.
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