Posted by bozeman on February 10, 2003, at 22:03:04
In reply to Re: Depression and break-up of the extended family, posted by FredPotter on February 9, 2003, at 21:59:26
In my case for sure, lack of reliable support structure made my slide downhill worse. I remember a couple of years after the accident that started my slide into numbness, my therapist telling me that the single biggest thing wrong in my life was that I was thousands of miles away from anyone I knew or cared about, and that due to the demands of my job and the cultural situation I'd walked into, that developing a new support structure was impossible. I'm sure that there are members of my family (as in Dinah's case) that I was much blessed by being isolated from, but my parents and siblings were not among them, or my friends.
It is much, much harder, I think, to "lose" or be removed from the support system encompassed in a warm, supportive extended family, than it is to have never had that support to rely on. If you never had it, I suppose you have to develop "internal" means of support instead of relying on external ones.
my two cents worth
bozeman
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