Timeline for My 9 year old son regards life as meaningless
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| Jun 29, 2015 at 19:21 | comment | added | dwjohnston | @Erik Seeing a therapist doesn't mean you want/need. It's often about dealing with something in a constructive manner. It's quite apparent that the kid in this story has difficulties relating to other people and it would certainly help to get some perspective on this issue. | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 14:28 | comment | added | Erik | But that doesn't sound very related to being introverted. If a child feels bad, it should go to therapy, but because it feels bad, not because it's introverted. | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 13:58 | comment | added | Gusdor | @Erik Unhelpful answer: it helps with everything. When you are a child/teenager, you lack perspective. All problems are huge at that age and to an adult, the responses are generally overreactions. Professionals can teach us some subtle an important things. Interacting with a non-guardian adult itself was a real boost to my social confidence. If the child feels bad, something is hurting them. That is the problem - no child should feel bad just for being. | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 12:59 | comment | added | Erik | In that case I would think the answer needs to add that, because as it stands it merely says "your son's apparent introversion is an issue", which suggests that it's a trait to get rid of. | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 12:58 | comment | added | Marin Althuis | @Erik Taking him to a psychologist does not necessary mean to consider him sick or anything like it. It's to help the son and the parents to deal with the situation and to see if the kid is highly intelligent, which it probably is. I'm speaking from my own experience, I went to a psychologist at the age of 6 because I also was 'different' and had little friends, and got bored in school very easily. | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 11:45 | comment | added | Mast | @Gusdor For some it does, for some it doesn't and for a few it makes it worse. You never know for sure until you try, but it's not necessarily the best option. | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 11:27 | comment | added | Gusdor | @Erik from personal experience, therapy helps. | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 7:04 | comment | added | Erik | Introversion by itself is not grounds for seeing a psychologist. | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 3:28 | history | edited | dwjohnston | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 29, 2015 at 0:11 | history | answered | dwjohnston | CC BY-SA 3.0 |