by KINDNESSTHERAPY on Fri Apr 27, 2012 1:54 am
In blog post #3 I talked about the controlled -Choas- that mental health facilities deal with for a number of reasons, this choas is uncontrolled in the vast majority of mental facilities. The mental health rehabilitation facility in northern New Jersey USA was considered the best in the area by the clients themselves. The -Clients- with all their problems generally knew more about their condition and or problems better then the mental health professionals, this I found out the hard way. Many times a client was acting out for attention and when everybody just stood around too see what the -Professionals- did to help the client, my eyes really opened. In one particular case the -Professionals- did nothing time after time because they knew that the client just wanted attention, so on my own I stopped eating my lunch and went to him and calmed him down. Now this was happening at least once a week and each time I went to him and calmed him down so that after about six months the clients came to me and thanked me for taking care of him. The look on my face showed the clients that I did not understand their thanking me, they said that they knew this client was looking for attention. -But- who would be there for them if they were having a problem and then I understood that they know far more then the mental health professionals about -Trust- and -Kindness- and the real everyday problems of -Clients-.
Clients generally know what is happening to them way before they begin to act out or go into psychois or become violent -if- somebody takes the time to listen to them they can calm themselves down. The same thing about clients going into -Depression- if somebody takes the time you can get them out of depression, somebody just has to give a damn. Example, group laughter or self deprecating humor where somebody makes fun of themselves and this will get the depressed person to join the laughter and if you do it long enough they will respond. -You- do not need to be a mental health professional to really -Help- yourself or a loved one.
All of the above and more is telling -You- that mental health professionals are not the only answer and if -You- want to help yourself or a loved one -You- must become pro active in healing yourself or a loved one. You must learn about your condition and what medications and at what strengths to take etc. etc. etc. and use trial and error to find what works for -You-. Do not let these supposed mental health professionals experiment with -You- as the guinea pig, they do not care about -You- because very, very few clients ever get on the road to real recovery.
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