Group Therapy Adventures
Group Therapy Adventures A person can look around McGuire Veterans Hospital (or any other veteran’s hospital) and feel depressed about the paraplegics, amputees or the men talking to themselves, angry at the voices in their heads, or the doctors with the thousand yard stare, overwhelmed at what they have seen on their rounds, and some of them maybe as bad off as soldiers who have actually seen combat. Occasionally you see a smile, and that smile is contagious. These surroundings can make you wonder: Is death paying the ultimate price for freedom, or is death really living the rest of your life with a handicap? Today the V-A mental health group went to a Chinese buffet which was a lot better than the overdone turkey and stuffing they served in the cafeteria yesterday. At the buffet, the ex-soldiers filled their plates up and then went back for seconds. ...