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On the great misery of Hadassah's patients and employees
It's hard for me as someone who is so close, but not yet there, to being a nurse, to read an article like this. I'm still in that ideological state of mind that as health care practitioners, we have an absolute ethical responsibility to our patients, because otherwise this kind of thing will inevitably happen ( Read more... ) -
הסיפור שלי - לפרויקט דו-שיח
So I'm doing this thing where I'm going to speak to various different groups of people about my story as a psychiatric patient. I need a little help with my Hebrew, which I know is atrocious. Any help appreciated.
הסיפור שלי
הרקע למשברשלום, אני שמואל, נולדתי בטורונטו, קנדה, בן 31, אבא לתאומות בנות 5. עליתי ארצה לפני כ-9 שנים. אני בן בכור, יש לי ( Read more... ) -
Running commentary on BSG S01E03-10 and Farscape S01E03-08
So as to not experience too much burnout from a single show, I've been alternating between BSG and Farscape episodes. This after learning that I did burnout a little from watching so much damn Doctor Who episode after episode.
BSG S01E03 - Bastille Day: I can't hear the words "Bastille Day" without belting out the Rush song at the same time. Also ( Read more... ) -
Lies, damned lies, and reality
Anyone who ever says that it'll be ok, they LIE ( Read more... ) -
On my form(s?) of self-harm
Given my obnoxiously strong survival instinct, time and time again I have proven to myself that suicide is not only not an answer, but also not an option. Also, given my obnoxious inability to tolerate pain, I have found that any physical self-harming activity is also not an option. Sadly, given the above, that still allows for a great deal of ( Read more... ) -
I'm gonna try and explain why this is offensive to psychiatric patients.
While browsing my friends feed on Facebook, I found this meme twice.
A little laugh ( Read more... ) -
Yet again, I was right; or, how to completely drop the ball in psychiatry.
For the most part, this hospitalization has been a nightmare. With the exception of one week where I actually felt good and functioned properly, it's been a string of therapists and doctors telling me to snap out of it (in one form or another), blaming me for all my problems (in one form or another), and failing to meet my expectations (in many ( Read more... ) -
"It gets better"? Try being a psychiatric patient.
Here's the problem that I had with the whole "It gets better" thing for LGBT youth from a few years back. Yeah, it might get better. But right now, I can't see past the fact that I haven't seen my daughers in two weeks, that my career in nursing is yet again in serious jeopardy, that I had to drop out of Hairspray (why haven't you seen it yet ( Read more... ) -
Another mass shooting by another psycho
"In the wake of another horrific national tragedy, it’s easy to talk about guns. But it’s time to talk about mental illness."Mental illness is the elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about. I hate every single time that these massacres are perpetrated by someone with mental illness because it feeds even more into the stigmatization. ( Read more... )