To this end, I want to say a few more things about therapy and what I have noticed with adult versus child experiencers. Adults deal with changes afterward. Children deal with the strangeness that the world around them doesn't match what they know. They are challenged to recognize the source of their differentness and accept its credibility. What they encountered in their near-death episode is so real that it becomes their entire world.
Comparisons have little if any value.
I found that children were six times more likely to repress what happened to them than were adults. Very few child experiencers ever underwent therapy or counseling of any kind. Of those who did, only a handful said it was helpful. I don't know about you, but this sends off alarm bells in my head. We simply must take another look at this issue, and from various angles.