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VickiesPath · Sep 12, 2009, 08:48 PM

Hey Morgan,

I think that the reason everyone keeps telling you that talking to the counselor was brave and mature is because even adults have a hard time talking to people about their problems.

There's another reason, too. I learned this in my development classes when I was in college. For kids, all their lives its their parents who are the adults that they look to for guidance and learning. When kids become teens, they start the process of becoming adults themselves and they don't always get along with their parents (duh!). So, this is a rough time for them. Suddenly they don't like the people they used to trust. Even though it may not seem this way on the surface, their world is shaken up badly. Their security is shot. So, kids your age are left in limbo, wondering who to trust and what to do.

Then along come all these strangers (us people online) suggesting that you to go to your school counselor. You don't know if that is the right thing or not. But after considering it, you believe that it is because you decide to trust us. That is a very big thing for you to go and talk with another person that you don't know well but who's supposed to be able to help you. It turns out that he did. So, that is why everyone is telling you that it was a brave and very mature thing to do. Because you trusted. And because you cared enough about yourself to help yourself. Even some grownups can't do that for themselves.