{"id":5352,"date":"2011-10-24T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccpa.scottbuckingham.ca\/blog\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2015-07-03T16:13:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T20:13:20","slug":"blog-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/blog-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog #12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/landscape2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1199\" title=\"landscape\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/landscape2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>O.k. now, after an extended tangent, my second observation as a counsellor attending counselling as a client; the stigma of going to counselling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I felt strange going to counselling at first.\u00a0 I got caught up in the shoulds.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m a therapist, I should be able to know how to deal with things.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cI help people through their own depression, anxiety, worries, troubles, I should just use the same things I teach them.\u201d\u00a0 Truth is, I was embarrassed to be going to counselling.\u00a0 I was telling people I had a doctor\u2019s appointment when they asked where I was going or to get time off work to go.\u00a0 Not aware of what possessed me, but I did mention it to a colleague, and she informed me she was also going to counselling.\u00a0 As I talked to my colleagues and my friends about it, the more natural it seemed that I would be going for counselling. The stigma it seems, was coming from me; not some external source.\u00a0 In an article produced by Alberta Health Services, \u201cStigma is the reason two-thirds of Candadians living with mental illness donot seek help. (Seto, 2011).\u00a0 The same article also stated that \u201c\u2026one in five Canadians experience some measure of mental illness every year (Seto, 2011).\u201d\u00a0 That same article talks about the negative image that media portrays of people with mental illness, that one is looked down upon for taking time off work due to mental illness.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know that that is always the case.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure it still exists, but have an idealistic sense of hope that it has diminished.\u00a0 As a therapist, I should be a steward of the profession.\u00a0 I should be trumpeting the benefits to all.\u00a0 I should be talking about what counsellors do. \u00a0After all, if I truly believe that counselling is helpful to others, am I not somewhat hypocritical for not seeking the same help myself, the same way I would seek out a doctor or a massage?\u00a0 As a matter of fact, attending counselling may give me a better understanding\u00a0 of the counsellor\/client relationship.\u00a0 Having had this experience, I can foresee addressing a client\u2019s feelings around coming to see me; the support they have from their significant others.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Seto, Colleen 2011; Confronting the Stigma of Mental Illness; Apple magazine; Fall 2011\/Issue 5:\u00a0 Alberta Health Services\u00a0 (forgive me for not adhering to APA\u2026 it would take me forever to find my old manual).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O.k. now, after an extended tangent, my second observation as a counsellor attending counselling as a client; the stigma of going to counselling.\u00a0 I felt strange going to counselling at first.\u00a0 I got caught up in the shoulds.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m a therapist, I should be able to know how to deal with things.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cI help people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[40,307],"class_list":["post-5352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-counsellingandpsychotherapyincanada","tag-mental-illness","tag-stigma"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blog #12 - L&#039;Association canadienne de counseling et de psychoth\u00e9rapie<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/blog-12\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blog #12 - L&#039;Association canadienne de counseling et de psychoth\u00e9rapie\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"O.k. now, after an extended tangent, my second observation as a counsellor attending counselling as a client; 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