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Credit: Families in trouble / Earl Lomon Koos. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![100 Families in Trouble verely, and at the close of the study had been only partially regained. The diagram for this family follows: family follows: My father and mother always treated me swell 'til this hap¬ pened. What hurts me is I didn't mean to do anything wrong, I got into a mess I couldn't seem to do anything about but go on with. So I got sick and then I had to tell my father. He was all right about it, took me to the doctor and helped me take care of myself, but he did change toward me. So did Mom when he told her. Sis has changed, too. She doesn't know what I did, or what happened , to me, but she acts the way she does because Pop and Mom act cold to me. She knows there's something wrong. Pop and Mom sure changed, even if Pop did help me. I'm not really a part of our family now: I just seem to be an outsider. Something like the neighbor's boarder. He's in that family, but he isn't really part of it. Why, they don't even talk with me the way they used to. I don't feel as though I had any family now, just a place to stay and eat. . . . It's still pretty bad [six months later]. Oh, they talk with me, and we go places together now—we didn't for a while. But there's still a feeling that I don't belong. Í try hard to be a part of the family, but they still hold back. They're fine—they really are, but there's something wrong. I just can't put my fìnger on it, but I know I lost something out of my life. I'd give most anything if I could do it over again and say No when I said Yes that time. . . .](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18024348_0123.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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