| There is a chapter of a father's rights organization in Nashua, NH.
I don't know who to contact to join them, but they announce their
meetings in the local paper (the Telegraph, usually in the Horizons
section).
--bonnie
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As was mentioned, EAP is excellent. It's also free. Many mental
health professionals will conduct an introductory session or interview
free of charge. Also, don't overlook your local mental health center
-- the one in Concord, MA (Eliot Community Mental Health Center) is
excellent. The staff members are competent, the fees are adjusted
according to income and a payment schedule can be worked out if you
can't pay the full amount at each visit.
Good luck.
CQ
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| Just to add another comment about EAP. I knew "several" people
who felt they were being "inequitaably" treated in one of DECs business
groups. Most of them wound up going to EAP, following instrctions
on "how to <deal>" with the then incumbent management.
Surprisingly enough { :^) }, when "normal" methods failed; there
were "more than one" personell audits of the department; in terms
of "evaluating" management/personell techniques.
In the long run (it doesn't work overnight) everything became eqitable.
But "someone" has to go to EAP first, and <everyone> who feels they
are being "inequitably treated" must also go. Very often, there
are MORE people who would whine and complain than will ACTUALLY
take the initiative to DO something.
On another matter, while having some "perceptual" problems, ostenibly
hearing loss and memory 'problems", the EAP counsellor referrred
me to an excellent nuerosurgeon for testing of both hearing and
memory.
The result of that evaluation was that: My hearing is excellent,
my memory is excellent; when stressed both go to pot real fast.
STRESS affects hearing and MEMORY (as well as a myriad of other
psychosomatic symptoms).
I feel the EAP is an excellent resource, for they provide to us
the resource who is familiar with many other resources; not just
counseling for <emotional issues>, but for many other issues as
well, and they can command the ear of upper management "when necessary"
(I think that is true by implication).
.bob.
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