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Re: psycho-social support. (redirect from PB) » jay

Posted by Elizabeth on October 9, 2001, at 13:48:34

In reply to Re: psycho-social support. (redirect from PB) » Elizabeth, posted by jay on October 6, 2001, at 18:01:00

Hi Jay. Nice post, but it didn't answer my question: "Can you please explain why you posted your `reminder' in a thread that was about purchasing textbooks?"

I actually agree with much of what you have to say: life skills are necessary for everyone, and it's certainly true that most people who suffer from severe mental illness never had a chance to learn some of these skills. (That doesn't mean that learning life skills constitutes a medical treatment of any kind; like I said, life skills are necessary for everybody.)

I think it's safe to say that quite a few people on PB have been hounded about the need for "psychosocial" therapy/support more than they would like already. To these people (and I know I'm not the only one), your post came across as preachy.

I don't think that people reading psycho-babble are unaware of the importance of having psychosocial supports at all. I also am pretty sure that although people on these boards are probably mostly middle-class, most of us are aware that there are many, many less fortunate people who suffer from the same illnesses as we do but who lack the supports that we have.

> It is the poor, who make up the largest majority of mental-health clients, who need this basic type of social support.

And these poor people who lack even basic social supports are posting to the internet? I think you're preaching to the wrong crowd if that's all you're talking about (which, of course, it isn't; you just decided to devote an entire message to it in an apparent effort to sidetrack).

> Maybe we are coming from two different vantage points, so I think that is likely where the confusion is. Mental illness may cross class boundaries, but the proof is it hits harder and wider, as usual, among the poor and lower-class.

I'm well aware of that. I'm also pretty certain that (for example) the homeless guy who I used to chat with at the bus stop when I lived in Boston is not posting to Psycho-Babble about his difficulties.

Finally, it's obvious that although you may be including "life skills" in your definition of "psychosocial supports," and although this particular post was devoted to discussing the plight of poor people with mental illnesses, it's only one of a number of things you're advocating.

-elizabeth


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