Posted by DaisyM on January 31, 2004, at 13:57:10
In reply to Re: To Dinah re: politics » Racer, posted by Dinah on January 31, 2004, at 12:40:36
Racer,
Good points - The political IS personal! It is a good analogy - trying to find the balance of emotional disclosure and self-sufficiency.
I spent some time, early on in therapy, explaining much of the politics of nonprofit funding to my therapist because he held many of the assumptions that most people do - nonprofits just have to "ask" big business to help, especially if it is cute little disable kids. WRONG!!! The California gov't is so screwed up, mental health services are virtually gone and my funding for serving these kids is always on the chopping block. But if we survey folks, they "think" kids deserve gov't funding services. Then they vote no on the taxes to fund this stuff.
Even our officials don't understand the ultimate impacts of their decisions at the individual level. We try to educate and explain but...
At least my Therapist *knows* now why I come in some days stressed out and frustrated. I came to one session directly from a meeting where we were helping the county design logic models for spending. LOL. I think I ranted at him for the first 10 minutes of the session, and he looked at me and said, "you seem upset about this?!"
YOU THINK?!!!
poster:DaisyM
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