Suicides that COULD be related to LE but we'll never know
Date: April 05, 2006 01:07AM
Anything that is intense and destabilizing can lead to emotional breakdown, I suppose. Any wonder why mental hospitals maintain bland, quiet, unperturbed environments ?
Paradox moment here. One might imagine that "those in need of help" on one level or another would be drawn to any organization that promises (however evasively, using carefully chosen non-specific, fudge factor smokescreen type language) things like TRANSFORMATION !, would, naturally, be seen as a salvation for unhappy, unbalanced, possibly unstable people.... in other words, needy people, people searching for anwers, people overwhelmed by the crap of life... and they are being offered something like therapy...... Nooooo Mister Billl ! Not Therapy ! COACHING !.... ok, "coaching", whatever the hell that is....
However, in the adult world of professional qualifications and professional certification, not that these petty concerns would slow down a juicy money making TRANSFORMATIVE COACHING corporation... no sireee... well, when real psychologists do their work, they have long initial interviews in order to generate a good diagnosis, and then a treatement plan, tailored to that individual, which, if the shrink has an ounce of competence, looks at childhood experiences, family dynamics, cultural frames, possible organic issues like head traumas, genetic dispositions....
Well, maybe these quick fix shoppes are promoting the idea, and carefully disguising the fact, even from their own conscious thinking, that they are in a position to substitute a commodified "philosophical" product for a couple of years of serious therapy.... "Your Life Doesn't Work!!!"... ??? You don't say ? And which population walks around thinking their life doesn't work ? Which population will be most profoundly hooked by this article of grand bloviation ? People who are OK ? People with stable, balanced lives ? Noooooo, duh, people with PROBLEMS.... who are being sold on the idea that they don't need therapy, they just need to GET OFF IT! (so get off it, asshole, what are you waiting for already ?)
C'mon, many people are severly depressed and only show minimal outward signs, they may seem a bit withdrawn or a little quizzical and be dying inside, and they need major therapy immediately, compassionate and concentrated work, appropriate medications, monitoring....
So let me ask you, how many of these "enlightened" trainers COULD, if their lives depended on it, identify a depressive personality and guage the real depth of their depression (and the degree of risk that implied) or a case of borderline personality disorder, or a bipolar in a state of hypomania (they are very enthusiastic, good attitude and everything, in the hypomanic state ! ) ????
Who has ever observed (I mean EVER) a case where a trainer stopped a training, or took a participant aside, NOT because of some overt acting out that was "disruptive", but because of some subtle cues about their mental state, and said, "listen, you'd be better served by seeing a good psychologist, why don't you go to the back of the room and get a full refund and apply that to you intake interview, good luck and feel better..." Ever ? Any takers ?