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From: Marija, Croatia
Date: 10/9/03
Time: 3:07:27 PM
Remote Name: 195.29.100.197
Dear prof.Cooper, when I read Todd's story I said: "No, that's MY story!" I've had the same rebounds from such a therapy three times and getting up after such an unsuccess was very painful. Now to the next thing: I am a lay person but I have heard about the difference in European and American approach toward a patient. An European doctor will rarely say to a dying man: "You're going to die." When I first read your term "CPS Syndrome", I was shocked and thought of it as inhumane. But when I think about it, it does have a releasing effect to it. I attended a therapy just as Todd did, I went back two more times to confirm what I had learned and in my down-days I feel guilty that I'm not following the orders and practicing the learned technique. But as you said, it erases my character and feels unnatural. So if I say to myself "I have CPS", the stuttering becomes something technical - it's how my brain is built and there is no way to cure it - it does lift some weights off of my shoulders. But "incurable" sounds nasty and calls for a sad face :o(