nataliedormersource:I’ve been to therapy in the past when I’ve had crisis moments in my life; I thin
nataliedormersource:I’ve been to therapy in the past when I’ve had crisis moments in my life; I think it’s very healthy. I think that’s even a more acceptable attitude in America actually than it is probably back at home [in England]. I think we have to monitor our minds the way we need to monitor our bodies. And that’s part of what I touch on in my [UN] speech—when assaults happen on women and girls in these fragile countries, in these places of crisis, there isn’t the psychosocial support. There aren’t counseling services. It’s not in a lot of cultures to explicitly talk about things that maybe have happened to the body. So, repression of emotion, and shame, and guilt is something that really needs to be handled in humanitarian crises. Women need to have access to counseling services in the way that American or British women can have if something really bad or upsetting happens to them. I think [the stigma] is changing. It’s an evolution. The responsibility lies in people like you, as well as me, to make it a positive and not a negative. -- source link