Expert in Complementary and Alternative Therapies
My son was badly bullied for years. We tried to get it stopped at the school but nothing worked and we eventually had to uproot the whole family to move to the city so that he could start over in a new school, away from the torment. When things were looking very hopeless for him at his old school he started using drugs and alcohol as a way to kind of escape, and I think, to try to fit in with a different crowd that might offer him some protection. Now he is away from the bullying and he says he is fine, but I know he is still drinking and using drugs and in a lot of pain from the trauma of the last few years. We have tried getting him individual therapy and even whole family counseling but he won’t open up about what’s really bothering him and about what he is feeling. He just says he is fine when anyone can see that he really is not fine. It’s so hard watching him live with this weight of whatever it is that he can’t or won’t talk about. I wish he could just let it go. Since conventional counseling hasn’t helped, I was wondering if there were any alternative forms of therapy that might be helpful to him so that he could move beyond the bad years of the past? We live in Atlanta.
