Hi Jess, I've worked in mental health and have witnessed and been a part of all the above. I'm really interested to read your thoughts on how this archaic institution can be improved, not only for those that are experiencing mental health issues, but equally for the people who respond to these crises at the ground level.
I've also been a patient of a psychiatrist who misdiagnosed me, but also gaslit me, when I appealed to his better nature with an alternative diagnosis.
Not to mention those people who are wrongly diagnosed with a psychiatric condition and get sectioned, when actually they are neurodivergent and not coping with a world that is a bad fit and yet makes no adjustments for their needs. I speak from experience.
This reminds me of the time I was on my way into the grocery store, and an unhoused man jumped up and began trying to get my attention. He was just saying: "Hi, hello!, Hello?" repeatedly and agitatedly. I stopped, looked him in the eye, and said hi back. He immediately became calm and smiled. The security guard was just about to intervene & asked me if the guy was bothering me. I said "Not at all! " He just wanted human acknowledgement.
I'm sorry if I got you wrong by writing on Facebook that you may not have the experience of dealing with suicide that you have, Dr.Taylor; it is very difficult to get things right in Psychiatry or Psychology though, but you can get the impression when you place yourself in contact with the associated professions that Psychology and Psychotherapy are the better options, but I think Psychiatry is improving, I have placed myself and my experience in the network and have been informed that a lot of hard work needs to be put into gathering information and thinking about the subject as I have put forward a description of truth and normality which includes developments of what are held to be personality traits ie-arrogance, which are produced by a person saying things to themself about being involved with others when the description can seem out of place with different people in a different situation. If you have experience of Psychotherapy and Psychiatry, though, one deals with you as an entire history, the other is very mixed, but is comparatively clinical, I didn't see one Psychiatrist who spoke to me in detail, but you occasionally hear of people who do, you also find that medication influences your entire description including health, once you're on these you can't give an entire account, you don't know what to make of being told that milk may seep out of your nipples or that you put on weight. If you come off medication and realise truth again, though, you can start to understand what happens from your experience and how you are involved with others because you can feel you can be of great help, but I have found this is actually quite difficult, someone has asked me where a seemingly harmless personality trait comes from, if you attach this to their history, it was frivolousness, you can say it's attached to the death of your mother who was pregnant with your sibling at the time of her death, because she was placed in the care of her grandparents and would have received messages of being lucky amongst other things during her childhood presuming her grandparents gave her the most encouraging messages following that experience, and without talking to someone in the right way in the right detail you don't know if you're making assumptions based on the brief history you have of her; so luckily I have said nothing because she's 94 and quite frail, I've made mistakes with others though. In any situation you don't necessarily have the right details known to you, though, in hospital you can have thieves, threats of violence, dirty beds, derogatory staff, ones who prefer a tongue in cheek attitude, a head Psychiatrist who apparently feels threatened and who looks at you threateningly if he's caught outside the ward round because he's not in his most protected environment, but when you are removed from that and come off the medication you can realise and accept that he lives in conditions that aren't much removed from the ones you live in. Others conditions can mean needing to be taken by police to whoevers available to stop you harming yourself, committing suicide or harming others, things are quite erratic. The way things are can link in in how to depathologise the situation though, my circumstances meant that because of a lack of education, meaning things I did or did not know, means that I don't know whether my person and the education that I have had led to me finding the term "inferiority" particularly catching and producing a focus for self-analysis and working out other people because I took it as being the common denominator when starting a knowledge of Psychology and analysis when knowing about available descriptions to understand the earliest potential for feelings; other people hate it being implied, I take this as being evidence that that's because their lives have been about avoiding that feeling and description, they obviously wouldn't; preceding my analysis and description I came across a pub group called Little Willy Complex and the Inferiors which may have helped my attitude towards the word; but you say that without comprehensivity how do you know what to say to whom unless you know you have a completely true knowledge of interactions with others?
Hi Jess, I've worked in mental health and have witnessed and been a part of all the above. I'm really interested to read your thoughts on how this archaic institution can be improved, not only for those that are experiencing mental health issues, but equally for the people who respond to these crises at the ground level.
I've also been a patient of a psychiatrist who misdiagnosed me, but also gaslit me, when I appealed to his better nature with an alternative diagnosis.
What is the answer?
Not to mention those people who are wrongly diagnosed with a psychiatric condition and get sectioned, when actually they are neurodivergent and not coping with a world that is a bad fit and yet makes no adjustments for their needs. I speak from experience.
This reminds me of the time I was on my way into the grocery store, and an unhoused man jumped up and began trying to get my attention. He was just saying: "Hi, hello!, Hello?" repeatedly and agitatedly. I stopped, looked him in the eye, and said hi back. He immediately became calm and smiled. The security guard was just about to intervene & asked me if the guy was bothering me. I said "Not at all! " He just wanted human acknowledgement.
100% agree.
I'm sorry if I got you wrong by writing on Facebook that you may not have the experience of dealing with suicide that you have, Dr.Taylor; it is very difficult to get things right in Psychiatry or Psychology though, but you can get the impression when you place yourself in contact with the associated professions that Psychology and Psychotherapy are the better options, but I think Psychiatry is improving, I have placed myself and my experience in the network and have been informed that a lot of hard work needs to be put into gathering information and thinking about the subject as I have put forward a description of truth and normality which includes developments of what are held to be personality traits ie-arrogance, which are produced by a person saying things to themself about being involved with others when the description can seem out of place with different people in a different situation. If you have experience of Psychotherapy and Psychiatry, though, one deals with you as an entire history, the other is very mixed, but is comparatively clinical, I didn't see one Psychiatrist who spoke to me in detail, but you occasionally hear of people who do, you also find that medication influences your entire description including health, once you're on these you can't give an entire account, you don't know what to make of being told that milk may seep out of your nipples or that you put on weight. If you come off medication and realise truth again, though, you can start to understand what happens from your experience and how you are involved with others because you can feel you can be of great help, but I have found this is actually quite difficult, someone has asked me where a seemingly harmless personality trait comes from, if you attach this to their history, it was frivolousness, you can say it's attached to the death of your mother who was pregnant with your sibling at the time of her death, because she was placed in the care of her grandparents and would have received messages of being lucky amongst other things during her childhood presuming her grandparents gave her the most encouraging messages following that experience, and without talking to someone in the right way in the right detail you don't know if you're making assumptions based on the brief history you have of her; so luckily I have said nothing because she's 94 and quite frail, I've made mistakes with others though. In any situation you don't necessarily have the right details known to you, though, in hospital you can have thieves, threats of violence, dirty beds, derogatory staff, ones who prefer a tongue in cheek attitude, a head Psychiatrist who apparently feels threatened and who looks at you threateningly if he's caught outside the ward round because he's not in his most protected environment, but when you are removed from that and come off the medication you can realise and accept that he lives in conditions that aren't much removed from the ones you live in. Others conditions can mean needing to be taken by police to whoevers available to stop you harming yourself, committing suicide or harming others, things are quite erratic. The way things are can link in in how to depathologise the situation though, my circumstances meant that because of a lack of education, meaning things I did or did not know, means that I don't know whether my person and the education that I have had led to me finding the term "inferiority" particularly catching and producing a focus for self-analysis and working out other people because I took it as being the common denominator when starting a knowledge of Psychology and analysis when knowing about available descriptions to understand the earliest potential for feelings; other people hate it being implied, I take this as being evidence that that's because their lives have been about avoiding that feeling and description, they obviously wouldn't; preceding my analysis and description I came across a pub group called Little Willy Complex and the Inferiors which may have helped my attitude towards the word; but you say that without comprehensivity how do you know what to say to whom unless you know you have a completely true knowledge of interactions with others?