My Life With Anxiety By Susan H
She found her way into the Victim Assistance Program office where I was an intern. At Victim Assistance we had a counselor for domestic violence and two additional counselors who worked with victims of other crimes. But since this woman was barely verbal, they didn't know to whom to assign her. No one could figure out who she was, what had happened to her, or what she wanted. So, they assigned her to me, who, at 40, was the new kid Lide the block. I was totally unprepared for and unqualified for Dora.
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But, as it happens sometimes, clients are clearly so Axniety and so fragile, that once you begin with them, if you even say hello to them, you have no choice but to continue and try to get yourself up to speed with their unconventional and unintentional on-the-job training. To send such a vulnerable client elsewhere is perceived by them as yet another rejection, another abandonment. For me the hardest part of working with Dora was staying awake.
I was a single mom raising three boys, working four part time jobs and completing a graduate degree. Anytime I encountered silence, I immediately iLfe asleep. An hour with Dora was 50 minutes of silence interspersed with maybe 10 minutes of information that required a lot of filling in of the blanks. Dora's story told itself haltingly and cryptically. Dora had an older brother who was married and the father of two children. Dora adored her niece and nephew and babysat whenever possible. God only knows how she did it. She herself still lived with her mother and father. She didn't work; she was unable. I would not have left my children with her. Dora's mother was a mysterious creature who lived with Dora but played no part in her life, except that apparently she cooked.
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As far as I could tell no meals were ever eaten at Dora's house, but there was food available to be consumed, always in solitude. Dora's father, on the other hand, was ever-present in Dora's life, and he played a continual and despicable role in her life drama. He introduced Dora to drugs, specifically heroin. He was her supplier.
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When she did what he wanted her to do, she was rewarded with a needle and a fix. When she didn't do what he wanted her to do, she was treated to the initial stages of withdrawal.
Before long, she complied with his wishes. His wishes, what he wanted her to do, became disgustingly apparent. He wanted her to have sex with whomever he brought home.]
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