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The Parlour

  • 21-12-2011 12:16am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,238 ✭✭✭


    What exactly is going on in the back room of the JCR?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭blubloblu


    http://parlourspacedublin.tumblr.com/post/12010244280/the-future-of-the-parlour
    Probably a well-meaning idea, but conveyed in what sounds like a load of ****.
    Is it being run by the same people as the JCR? Pretty clique-y bunch to be running an inclusive mental health service.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,761 ✭✭✭Lawliet


    If I understood the email correctly, they want a drop in centre for student counselling within the Parlour? Doesn't seem like the best place to put it; I'd say a lot of people would be too self-conscious to go to a drop in centre where their friends or other students from their course could be hanging out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭Extrasupervery


    Lawliet wrote: »
    If I understood the email correctly, they want a drop in centre for student counselling within the Parlour? Doesn't seem like the best place to put it; I'd say a lot of people would be too self-conscious to go to a drop in centre where their friends or other students from their course could be hanging out.

    Well that's a very silly attitude. Do students feel too self-concious to go to the college health building? I wouldn't be worried about peers seeing me dropping in to see the GP, and to think that people would be too self-concious to drop into this proposed centre is...silly. And counter-productive.

    I think it's a great idea.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,761 ✭✭✭Lawliet


    Well that's a very silly attitude. Do students feel too self-concious to go to the college health building? I wouldn't be worried about peers seeing me dropping in to see the GP, and to think that people would be too self-concious to drop into this proposed centre is...silly. And counter-productive.

    I think it's a great idea.
    Silly attitude or not, it's a realistic one. Whether its warranted or not people have a different attitude to physical health than they do mental health. Often the people who would benefit from counselling are the ones who are most afraid that people will find out they need help. It's for this reason that some counsellors try to maintain a 'one patient in the waiting room at a time' policy, or have a separate entrance and exit. I know this is a student run service, but I believe anyone looking for counselling should be able to keep this fact private, and I don't think having the drop in centre at the back of the JCR is best way of doing this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭Extrasupervery


    Lawliet wrote: »
    Silly attitude or not, it's a realistic one. Whether its warranted or not people have a different attitude to physical health than they do mental health. Often the people who would benefit from counselling are the ones who are most afraid that people will find out they need help. It's for this reason that some counsellors try to maintain a 'one patient in the waiting room at a time' policy, or have a separate entrance and exit. I know this is a student run service, but I believe anyone looking for counselling should be able to keep this fact private, and I don't think having the drop in centre at the back of the JCR is best way of doing this.

    "Often the people who would benefit from counselling are the ones who are most afraid that people will find out they need help." Whereabouts does this claim come from?! I'm benefiting greatly from the student counselling service, and will happily tell anyone who wants to listen.

    Having this centre in the JCR is a positive move away from this (however realistic) silly, old-fashioned and dangerous attitude.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,761 ✭✭✭Lawliet


    "Often the people who would benefit from counselling are the ones who are most afraid that people will find out they need help." Whereabouts does this claim come from?! I'm benefiting greatly from the student counselling service, and will happily tell anyone who wants to listen.

    Having this centre in the JCR is a positive move away from this (however realistic) silly, old-fashioned and dangerous attitude.

    Just personal experience, you're comfortable with people knowing you're getting counselling and that's fantastic, but what about the people who aren't? I've seen many friends who really struggled to get over their fear and paranoia that people would judge them for needing help, and when I was depressed this was a huge factor that stopped me from talking. To you this is a step forward, but to others it's another obstacle.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭Extrasupervery


    Yeah I guess that's true. I'm comfortable with the idea now, but maybe if it was my first time seeing a counsellor I would feel too intimidated.

    If anyone is in this position then please, don't let the stigma stop you. It 'held me back' for far too long. No one judged me, to be honest no one will be concerned in the slightest, and those that are concerned will be supportive. Also the people in the college counselling service are lovely, lovely people.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 639 ✭✭✭devinejay


    I think in practice, it will probably end up as a very passive service, with the usual literature available and all that, but not much else. Hopefully it'll just be a social space that'll also happen to raise awareness about mental health and what other services are available in the college to do with mental health. I can't see many people getting a quick counselling session in while they eat their roll!


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