What's it like to work with people who have mental health problems?
i mean as a nurse or in a caring / helping capacity.schizophrenia, depression, etc etc?
Answers:
It can be extremely rewarding, but also very frustrating! As long as you learn to not take the problems people experience home with you, then it's a very good job! Some of the people you'll meet have lived lives that you wouldn't believe, and people with Schizophrenia are so tormented by their voices or beliefs, it's a wonder anyone survives! Helping people recover from mental illness is hard, challenging, but ultimately very rewarding! Go for it! It's a brilliant job!
Mentally challenging : )
I know couple of people who do this kind of work.. it is very tough, you have to have the guts for it.. but on the other hand, if you take it seriously and it is interesting to you as a field, you will make it .. but you'll be a witness to many an unpleasant situation
Very rewarding, people paint a picture of people with mental health problems as ALL of them being nut jobs, some are as basic as having eating disorders, some have a breakdown after a long marriage breaking down, there are so many levels of mental health .right down to the multiple personality, co dependant, and as far along as people who have committed sexual crimes but not with intent, its a very broad question and there isnt enough space here to say how it made ME feel.
grateful comes to mind.
it brings to mind that phrase, ."if you think YOU have problems."
some are short term patients, some are lifelong, it depends which field you enter, but you cant be biased, or get too involved, that was my flaw, i cant help but feel personally responsible, thats a big NO in that field of work
I loved working in the psychiatric outpatients department. But I didn't feel comfortable working with people who were more damaged than that. Many people do, and I take myhat off to them. It's a personal choice.
Aggravating. I must get out of the bar business.
I don't know what it's like to work with the people who suffer with these problems, but if you need experience of it in everyday life, you're in the right place here, aren't you. Off hand I estimate that at least 50% of the people who use this site could do with your help (and of course, standby for some of them to spot your question!)
Depends what sort of mental health problem they have. I worked with someone who was a compulsive liar, she couldn't help herself and made up the most outrageous lies you could imagine. It was extremely frustrating, in a 12 month period she had 19 periods of sick, her excuses ranged from:
Children being abducted by ex husband
Found a snake in the airing cupboard
Lump removed from breast
Electrocuted and thrown across the kitchen
Father died (she forgot that she had told everyone he'd died 2 years previous)
Daughter fell of a swing at school and was rushed to hospital (she was later seen by a staff member with her daughter taking her bike out of the boot of her car, no cuts or bandage)
Slipped disk (3 weeks) was seen in Asda carting heavy carrier bags
Heart problems
The list goes on
It's soooooo annoying.
It depends on the type of person you are and the help and support you get. You need to make sure you have somewhere you can offload e.g. therapy / supervision - to make sure you don't internalise their problems. The main difficulty is that you cannot understand how they interpret the information they are receiving e.g. what you are saying to them and how they will respond. Many people with mental health problems come up with very irrational and unrealistic ideas and you can have a conversation like you are both speaking completely different languages.
But remember, everywhere we go. our friends, colleagues, in a shop etc. even in our own family, we can be experiencing someone with a mental health problem.
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Answers:
It can be extremely rewarding, but also very frustrating! As long as you learn to not take the problems people experience home with you, then it's a very good job! Some of the people you'll meet have lived lives that you wouldn't believe, and people with Schizophrenia are so tormented by their voices or beliefs, it's a wonder anyone survives! Helping people recover from mental illness is hard, challenging, but ultimately very rewarding! Go for it! It's a brilliant job!
Mentally challenging : )
I know couple of people who do this kind of work.. it is very tough, you have to have the guts for it.. but on the other hand, if you take it seriously and it is interesting to you as a field, you will make it .. but you'll be a witness to many an unpleasant situation
Very rewarding, people paint a picture of people with mental health problems as ALL of them being nut jobs, some are as basic as having eating disorders, some have a breakdown after a long marriage breaking down, there are so many levels of mental health .right down to the multiple personality, co dependant, and as far along as people who have committed sexual crimes but not with intent, its a very broad question and there isnt enough space here to say how it made ME feel.
grateful comes to mind.
it brings to mind that phrase, ."if you think YOU have problems."
some are short term patients, some are lifelong, it depends which field you enter, but you cant be biased, or get too involved, that was my flaw, i cant help but feel personally responsible, thats a big NO in that field of work
I loved working in the psychiatric outpatients department. But I didn't feel comfortable working with people who were more damaged than that. Many people do, and I take myhat off to them. It's a personal choice.
Aggravating. I must get out of the bar business.
I don't know what it's like to work with the people who suffer with these problems, but if you need experience of it in everyday life, you're in the right place here, aren't you. Off hand I estimate that at least 50% of the people who use this site could do with your help (and of course, standby for some of them to spot your question!)
Depends what sort of mental health problem they have. I worked with someone who was a compulsive liar, she couldn't help herself and made up the most outrageous lies you could imagine. It was extremely frustrating, in a 12 month period she had 19 periods of sick, her excuses ranged from:
Children being abducted by ex husband
Found a snake in the airing cupboard
Lump removed from breast
Electrocuted and thrown across the kitchen
Father died (she forgot that she had told everyone he'd died 2 years previous)
Daughter fell of a swing at school and was rushed to hospital (she was later seen by a staff member with her daughter taking her bike out of the boot of her car, no cuts or bandage)
Slipped disk (3 weeks) was seen in Asda carting heavy carrier bags
Heart problems
The list goes on
It's soooooo annoying.
It depends on the type of person you are and the help and support you get. You need to make sure you have somewhere you can offload e.g. therapy / supervision - to make sure you don't internalise their problems. The main difficulty is that you cannot understand how they interpret the information they are receiving e.g. what you are saying to them and how they will respond. Many people with mental health problems come up with very irrational and unrealistic ideas and you can have a conversation like you are both speaking completely different languages.
But remember, everywhere we go. our friends, colleagues, in a shop etc. even in our own family, we can be experiencing someone with a mental health problem.
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