Services For Mental Health: 3 Steps To Resolving Mid-Cycle Spotting

Now look, the Catcher in the Rye, by Salinger, was required reading for my tenth grade English class.

This reading accentuated the unresolved grief, family dysfunction, mental illness, and lack of social connectedness of the main character, Holden Caulfield, and how these difficulties exacerbate the problems experienced in the course of the typical maturational process.

Actually I wondered what my take the book will be now in lifetime having survived adolescence and received training and experience in child development in addition to having a teen in the house, before I began. I remembered it as a story about the struggles of adolescence, the yearning for independence, and the reluctance to let go of youth. Actually, my son is now about similar age as I was when I read the book and we are living through his own nudge for independence, that sparked my interest to give the story another read. A well-known fact that is. Consequently as we try to recover from the Boston Marathon bombing, The Catcher in the Rye reminds us about the importance of developing meaningful and genuine connections with our children and the need to address their mental health problems, as the country still debates gun control laws in the aftermath of Sandy Hook.

Catcher in the Rye begins as a flashback story about Holden Caulfield’s experiences leading up to his nervous breakdown prior to Christmas.

Holden narrates the story while receiving inpatient psychological treatment on the west coast.

Basically the events begin at Pencey Prep in Pennsylvania, where Holden had been expelled due to poor academic performance, and conclude in New York as Holden attempts to return home. Consequently, holden eventually makes it home and connects with his younger sister. Holden decides that he is intending to go away, to escape from society and the rejection, the loneliness, and the pain that he feels. In spite the fact that he is no longer experiencing suicidal ideations, by that time he has decompensated to the point that, he feels disconnected, misunderstood, and alone. Holden makes one last trip to see his sister Phoebe before he disappears. Have you heard of something like this before? Through Phoebe, Holden is able to cling to his childhood and put off making the leap to young adulthood and independence.

She is both a peer and dependent to him, Phoebe’s caring, anger, and innocence provide Holden with the connection he is looking for. In the course of the course of his journey, Holden attempts to make connections with loads of people however, he fails miserably due to his social ineptitude, lack of appropriate treatment for what may possibly be bipolar disorder, and inability to consider that other people are capable of being genuine. Holden is left adrift to navigate this tumultuous time in his lifespan without support, understanding, and treatment. One theme that I was more attuned to during this reading was the unspoken dysfunction of the Caulfield family. It’s suggested that Holden is a challenging child, and somewhat of a disappointment to his parents as he was unable to live up to their expectations.

His efforts to reach out and communicate, including failing out of schools and getting into fights, are not understood as cries for Surely it’s possible that Holden’s parents were drained from watching their youngest son battle with leukemia which left them with little strength to effectively deal with Holden’s grief and potential disability. With that said, he had been expelled from at least four preparatory schools due to poor academic performance, he has difficulty socially connecting with others, and he has frequent mood swings. This is the case. He has a good author. Let me tell you something. Her reluctance to let her brother leave provides Holden with the strength to go to the premises and ask for help.

Holden perceives most people as being phony, superficial, and hypercritical.

It seems that the lack of communication with his parents, the unresolved grief and guilt over the death of his brother, and the inability to effectively and appropriately connect with others result in Holden being unable to interact with others on not very a superficial level.

Holden clearly experiences moments of mania throughout the story, that are often followed by feelings of sadness to the stage when he does express some suicidal thoughts. Therefore this may in part be due to his social awkwardness, lack of maturity, and feeling of being abandoned by his parents. And therefore the exception to it is Phoebe. Also, in the end, Holden continues to suffer from a lack of love and feelings of loneliness. He states, Don’t ever tell anybody anything. Certainly, Holden comes to consider that everyone is phony who doesn’t or is incapable of meeting his preconceived expectations. Furthermore, you start missing everybody, if you do. Now, Holden continues to find it difficult to have genuine, meaningful relationships believing that when you open up to people that they will turn away from you with intention to keep the relationship on a superficial level. He is continuously let down by everyone that he reaches out to for mostly there’s a hunger for social connectedness, holden continues to be plagued by this emotional void and, he will continue to experience emptiness and rejection due to his quirkiness.

While reading The Catcher in the Rye in high school highlighted the struggle for independence and Holden’s war on hypocrisy, for me.

Just since these conditions are unseen doesn’t mean that they aren’t debilitating, It reinforced the need to take mental health needs and services seriously.

They may have felt connected and accepted, and these tragedies may been avoided. The report of being accepted and cared for from The Catcher in the Rye continues to be relevant to young people day as we all strive for acceptance. Known on this reading, To be honest I was able to obtain a better understanding of the tragedy that occurs for a reason of Holden’s parents being unable to provide him the emotional support that he needs to overcome his brother’s death and deal with his mental health needs. Feeling cared for and connected to others reduces the stress, stigma, and isolation that are associated with these conditions.

Holden’s repeated failure to socially connect and develop a meaningful relationship with anyone aside from his sister and the lack of treatment for his mental health problems made me think of the recent tragedies in Colorado, Sandy Hook, and Boston. It made me wonder whether these tragedies could’ve been avoided if the people involved had received appropriate therapy and treatment. David Pino school psychologist has worked in education for the last 20 years. He has significant experience and expertise with learning disabilities, psychological evaluations, behavior, and special education. He is currently serving as an educational advocate to assist families with the special education process.