kidhawk
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Our latest acquisition wrote this piece for Mental Health Awareness Month. It's an interesting take on the issues from his perspective.
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It was 2011 and I was in a group therapy session at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. It was an informal self-assessment session where you were basically supposed to tell the group about what you were feeling and talk about what had happened to you the day before. We were all sitting in a circle. To my right, there was a young lady with bandages on her arms, and the wraps were soaked in blood. She had tried to harm herself the day before. Another young lady told the group that she had attempted suicide the night before.
I just sat there, in shock.
We worked our way around the room and everybody told their stories. There was an insurance broker, a social worker, a college student — normal, everyday, good people. Not all of their stories were as intense as the two young ladies’, but each person was facing similar struggles.
And there I was — this big, macho football player — listening to these people talk about their feelings and not knowing how to react.
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