Re: Too Early to Jack It All In????
 

Yes, I agree.People tend to blame a country because of expectations, believing hype etc and just their experiences translating into negative or positives. The blame game not a good way to go but people that are in a really bad way do tend to to this. We here in Australia tend to be fed a very positive attitude in the media and in Britain imo very negative one.

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You are a psychologist? A member of the Australasian Psychological Society?
Wow. I didn’t realise.

I googled it. I didn’t find any reference to group therapy from people with the same feeling discussing it. I found a lot of references to people verbalising their problems to trained psychologists. But nothing about the benefits of people with the same problems discussing it amongst themselves.

I also found some alarming stuff by a guy called Tarvis. Apparently he is quite influential.

Would you like to provide the references I am looking for?

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Only to particularly ignorant or tiresome posts, or where the point of discussion has been artificially restricted, or where the poster shoots himself in the foot. ie.
'I HATE Australia just because' is a bit silly at times, as is
'I HATE Australia because of fat people' - ditto.
'I HATE Australia because I live in mindless suburbia' is a viewpoint, is true, can be corrected..is an explanation..
'I HATE the UK because of Mr Brown' is also silly and gets it's just desserts too....(unfortunately, negative posts tend to reveal why the unhappy camper is unhappy..but he or she doesn't like having this pointed out).

Loads of people contribute and say negative things about Australia with no redress required.

My negative Australia post carried well if memory served and was well atteded by all sorts of happy migrants...

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Not necessarily.

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I can't really comment on this one. It fails to reach me as I don't really watch a great deal of TV or deal with the tabloid press. I also have an automatic press-filter inplace (!)

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I know - I said that was a silly thing of me to say. There are loads of reasons of course(!)

My point was about rejection and blame..exclusive, inclusive...how people come across...discuss..(happy to fix my post)....

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:confused:

It's not only psychologists who are therapists....they come from all sorts of professions.

....and no, I wouldn't care to supply you with references....you will find over a million on google

You can't have looked very hard if you could not find any references to group therapy and emotional processing.

As I said...I doubt if you are rally interested...you seem more interested in shit stirring on here.

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Not at all I was merely adopting your attitude, that if people are not happy in Aus, they should leave;)

Personally, I do not really have negative views of Aus, I am very glad that we have made the move but I have had to make huge adjustments, both personal & professional & it has taken time. It has been very helpful for me to read the shared experiences of others, it has helped me to keep perspective & be realistic in my expectation of self. I have gained great support & hopefully, have helped others.
I cannot stand the 'I am unhappy here so hate evrything Aus' attitude but I equally dislike the 'UK has gone to cr&p' posts but people need to sound off sometimes & very often, these attitudes are passing phases. However, if you post strong views, expect to have disagreement!

Perhaps you should google group therapy if you really want to know more on that subject!

Just out of interest, & this is a genuine enquiry, if you are well established & happy in Aus, why the need to frequent a forum such as this?

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Try asking that to the thousands of happy BE campers....of any persuasion...
the answer might be - because you can - and to get the full cross-section of debate on what is going on in the world - within reason...

I find that questions get managed and answered in a way they might not get handled on a professional forum.

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I am not so sure Liz (or should I say your majesty):)

You see, there are issues like group dynamics, conformity and epidemic hysertia to be considered.

The social transmission of a belief across a group of like minded people can produce excessive emotion amongst the group. In effect the feeling feeds and multiplies off that of the others.

Social psychologist Solomon Asch did a lot of work on this in the 1950s, and found that a group will influence each other - because they want to be liked by the group and because they believe the group is better informed than they are. Thus a group talking about how bad Australia is will simply reinforce that feeling within the group.

It is for exactly this reason that epidemic hysertia is best moderated by healthy critical thinking skills and reassurance from trusted authority figures, not from the group that created it.

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I actually know a bit about group therapy, but i dont want to spoil the fun here.....

I think its fair to stand up for the other side and try to provide a balanced discussion - hence my presence on this forum.

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Boilermakers perhaps? Tinsmiths? Electricians?

:)

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The other side????
I think that if you really read the posts on this forum, you will find that they are generally very balanced. You post as if no-one else on here likes Australia!

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That works both ways

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Is that why you troll on the MBTUK forum....amongst others?