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From: Steve Hood
Date: 10/14/00
Time: 9:50:47 PM
Remote Name: 205.188.197.167
Mike--
Thank you for sharing these two very powerful stories.... SLP's need to remember that emotions cover a wide range of intensity, and you have done a marvelous job in capturing the most intense of these.
I wonder what you think about this observation of mine. As an SLP, I often find it difficult for children and teens to be willing and able to talk about these more extreme reactions and feelings. Whether they "will not" discuss them, or whether they "can not" discuss them, or whether they don't yet have a perspective on them -- I do not know. Maybe there was some denial. But I have often felt that there were deeper reactions below the surface, but that the person did not talk about them back when they were first occurring.
Some years later, the person will more openly talk about these things that were, and still are, so important.... And as a clinician, I say to myself (and usually also to the person who stutters,) "I wish you had shared these feelings and thoughts and emotions back then, when you were experiencing the pain....." It would have been good to talk about this, and not hold it all in. I wish you could have let go.
I would be interested in your thoughts on this, Mike... And thank you once again for sharing these two most powerful stories.