The most difficult case we ever met. It is something worth to write about. What is a difficulty TC (Therapy Centre) cannot overcome?

If I were to write about this a year ago maybe I'd tell about some kind of behavior – difficult, antisocial, “antitherapeutic” or something like this. Now that I met this guy I know the real difficulty does not lay in this kind of stuff. In this case we met somebody who wants to change his life, wants to live and wants to be part of the community but he cannot sustain his resolve because of his health condition. Somehow he seems to have a terminal type of illness. We are in contact with him for 3 years now and we have seen him undergo more than 10 surgery interventions, having to interrupt his stay at Ozd for several times.

Meanwhile it is obvious that the TC in Ozd is his only and last hope to cling on. Sometimes I think the hope and love he has seen in his whole life happened to be in this TC. Maybe because we met him he is still alive – ha had somewhere to go back when all hope faded on a hospital bed. So we took him back several times even though he is not the kind of “cost-effective” investment. Supposed terminal illness, member of community for 3 years, very little hope to recover (and several relapses meanwhile). It was our decision to get him back and work with him.

Now he seeks to know Christ and I do think this is genuine. A part of him knows he may have little time left in this world. No, TC type treatment is not always cost-effective. There is a much greater force in move.

Gyula Bodó-Tóth, psychologist

TC clients and staff at a mountain trip, August 2008