Comments on: Dear Client: I am Not Your Mommy https://www.asylumist.com/2011/10/03/dear-client-i-am-not-your-mommy/ Asylum and Its Discontents in the United States Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:11:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jason Dzubow https://www.asylumist.com/2011/10/03/dear-client-i-am-not-your-mommy/comment-page-1/#comment-3179 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:11:25 +0000 http://www.asylumist.com/?p=1808#comment-3179 In reply to Fred.

Thank you for your kind comment. You might want to contact the Office of the Ombudsman. This office helps when there are problems with the asylum system. Here is the website:
http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/structure/cisomb.shtm

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By: Fred https://www.asylumist.com/2011/10/03/dear-client-i-am-not-your-mommy/comment-page-1/#comment-3178 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:14:08 +0000 http://www.asylumist.com/?p=1808#comment-3178 I am very impressed with your articles. You are very compassionate and have great legal expertise in asylum laws. Thank you for your great work. I am an asylum seeker myself. I was denied by the asylum office in Chicago in a ridiculous way. I want to ask whether there is a way to complain against them? Because of the sloppy work they did, I have to go through endless waiting and legal ordeals. Thank you!

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By: Jason Dzubow https://www.asylumist.com/2011/10/03/dear-client-i-am-not-your-mommy/comment-page-1/#comment-3168 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:46:21 +0000 http://www.asylumist.com/?p=1808#comment-3168 In reply to Simon.

Thank you for the comment – I agree with you that many asylum seekers face “avoidance” issues where they try not to think about issues related to their trauma. For some clients, at least, the problem is not trauma, but either lack of understanding about what is needed or passivity/laziness. Although the cause of the problems are very different, as lawyers we need to help them overcome these problems so that they can present the best case possible.

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By: Simon https://www.asylumist.com/2011/10/03/dear-client-i-am-not-your-mommy/comment-page-1/#comment-3167 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:13:25 +0000 http://www.asylumist.com/?p=1808#comment-3167 Not to be making “excuses” but a lot of this is common secondary effects of trauma. Have you ever had a project that, for whatever reason, you couldn’t bring yourself to do, even though you know you had to do it and once you started doing it it wouldn’t be that hard? So you always come up with some excuse in your head of why you can’t do it today but you’ll do it tomorrow? Well, the same type of avoidance mechanism is amplified 100-fold in trauma victims, when the task at hand is in some way related to the trauma. This isn’t just me making post-hoc rationalizations, this comes straight from the DSM-IV.

Check out the training available at http://support.tahirih.org/CLSSTrainingRegistration , it might be really valuable to you.

Keep up the good work Jason! And keep blogging — it’s a valuable resource for all of us.

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