KINDNESSTHERAPY wrote:In my last post that I posted yesterday, half the post got screwed up and I lost it while trying to post it.... So I will post a condensed version here because I think it is important to tell YOU what I saw and heard while working at the rehab work facility for human beings with various disabilities etc....
We had a work crew made up of human beings with various disabilities and a supervisor (Me) working on a project of filling ten's of thousands plastic eggs with extra strong laundry detergent. We were doing this for a couple of weeks when one of the workers who was kind of slow and the rest of us covered for him... The interesting part of the story is that one day he picked up speed of filling these eggs accurately to about TEN TIMES what he had been doing, we just watched him do this in amazement.... He worked the rest of the day at this speed and had the biggest smile on his face because he knew he was being exceptional, we were all happy for him because he was being NORMAL and or EXCEPTIONALLY ABOVE NORMAL....
I went to higher ups in the chain of command at the end of the day and told them what had happened and did they have any ideas of why and or could we duplicate what had just happened...
They just laughed and could care less about the MIRACLE we saw, the next day this worker went back to the old slow speed he had been doing.... This and many, many other examples of observations that I put on my recorders are sitting in my basement and what MIRACLES might be on these recordings and now YOU might understand my frustrations because nobody gives a $#%^....
Kindness, I care. I get where you are coming from. When a person feels welcomed in a group they flourish. Peer support is powerful, we thrive on acceptance. We need validation and we need someone to care for as we are being cared for.
Many people struggling with mental illness fall short if this basic human need at no fault of their own. Being able to give that to them, and really anyone, makes a world of difference.