According to experts from the organisation ‘Boarding School Survivors’ adults who have been to boarding school may experience several unwanted severe and complex difficulties caused by boarding. These can be addressed in therapy with Werner who has worked with many people who have boarded.
Experts have identified a range of symptoms that men and women who have been to boarding school may experience in their adult life. They actually say that…
… “The symptoms of what we call being a Boarding School Survivor, also known as Boarding School Syndrome, are varied and complex. They include difficulties in relationships and parenting, workaholism, inability to relax, isolation, being experienced as a bully, substance abuse, a sense of failure, as well as physical, sleep and sexual problems. These and other problems may be due to a complicated mix of neglect and privilege, of being exiled from normal family life to an institution with easy exposure to bullying and abuse. Such an education is not a good recipe for normal life and is a disastrous preparation for relationships.“