It’s hard to look at the hard things in our lives. I recently found myself carrying out a bit of informal research at a bus stop. On the same bit of pavement where I stood, I noticed, in a doorway, a homeless person under a sleeping bag. Around him or her was a small scattering of coffee cups, plastic drinks…
Category: anxiety
Do I need counselling?
When I was younger, I recall that the idea of anyone getting counselling or psychotherapy meant that there was something wrong with the person. Like seriously wrong. There was some stigma attached to getting counselling because the implication was that the person was somehow faulty or broken. It wasn’t viewed like other kinds of healing, which were viewed as ways of…