SUICIDE OF SURVIVORS
Added on October 3, 2005
by Mary Kenny, Irish Catholic, 5 May 2005
It is reported that survivors of institutional abuse are increasingly taking their own lives because they are being ?pushed around? between the Redress Board and the National Office for Victims of Abuse - without getting any final satisfaction.
But hasn't it struck anyone that there might be now be too much counselling, too much raking over past unhappiness and victimisation, and too much expectation of compensation?
Studies are now showing that the traditional social attitudes to a miserable childhood- put it behind you and get on with life - is almost certain a better way of coping than constantly picking at the scabs of emotional wounds.