Message #647

[tranchiebabe]

I think professionals are too quick to jump in with psychological help when something traumatic happens, assuming all will be badly psychologically effected by an incident! Obviously some will be, but not all by any means. Life has its ups and downs and dramas, but for the most part we should just have to deal with it without resorting to therapy! Good heavens I don't suppose during WW1 and WW2 counsellors were dispatched every time a bomb dropped, or someone lost a loved one at the front.

I am thinking back to an incident when I was about 12, a plane crashed in one of our fields and my father and his staff were first on the scene, which was grisly to say the least. The passengers survived, but the pilot and co-pilot were killed, one had been beheaded in the crash, the other had missing limbs. My father and his workmen weren't offered therapy, nor would they have expected it.

When my youngest daughter was about 10/11 I was driving her to bell ringing practise, when up ahead there was a traffic jam. I told her to get out and walk, as it wasn't far to the church, and I didn't want her to be late. What I hadn't realised was that a motorcyclist had been in an accident with a car, and he had rolled under it and somehow his head had parted company with his body. It had only just happened and my poor daughter walked past this unpleasant incident and saw the severed head! She had a few nightmares of course, but we expected her to get over it, which she did.