your hospital experiences! Mental health promotion...
Okay guys, I'm currently working on an acute psych ward and have to come up with an idea to promote the mental health of one (or a group) of my patients. I have a few ideas but im just wondering if anyone here has any ideas about things that would have helped improve their mental health whilst they were in hospital or anything that would have helped following discharge??
If only you'd ever speak to me
the way you once did
look at me the way you once did
pull to me the way you once did
but you don't
you don't feel anymore
you don't care anymore
it's all gone
it's all gone
make sure they is good care once they have been discharged.
plan things in the day and make sure they are stuck too.
" my precious, precious child, I love you and I would never, never leave you during your times of trials and suffering. When you see only one set of footprints it was then that I carried you" you were carried out of are lifes into the next and when its my time to leave this life I know i will be carried into the next life with you.
I wish i had my world complete again.
'Can we protend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars, i could really use a wish right now' BoB
just basically having stuff to do/distractions on the ward. relaxation in the morning and evening. walks where possible. the staff at my local hosp are great at talking to the patients on a one-to-one basis, thats really important for me. discharge is a big issue. there needs to be good aftercare otherwise the same issues will remain the same as they were prior to hosp and that creates round-a-bout admissions.
im not sure how you could do this, but it helps if the persons friends know the symptoms of the problem as they will be the people most likely to notice a difference. doctors and psychiatrists are all good, but they dont really know u like your friends.
Yeah pyro i was thinking of doing something along the lines of relapse prevention through education, which would involve educating friends and family about mental illness etc...
Be avalible to talk to patients more in general, espcially the shy ones who dont act like they want to talk. I found that shy people tend to get ignored on the whole, or there not in as much distress ase person down the corridor shouting.
" my precious, precious child, I love you and I would never, never leave you during your times of trials and suffering. When you see only one set of footprints it was then that I carried you" you were carried out of are lifes into the next and when its my time to leave this life I know i will be carried into the next life with you.
I wish i had my world complete again.
'Can we protend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars, i could really use a wish right now' BoB
Yeah I agree actually talk to the patients I went 3 weeks without talking to a soul once >.<
Also when they say they are going to do something actually do it not like oh yeah well arrange a meeting with the art therapist. then 4 months later nobody has even spoke to her
erm..ermm..bop it.
haha
tis fabulous distraction although most very frustrating!!
You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.
I spent a lot of useless time in the hospital for my anorexia while i was growing up. I am a large part of the reason it was useless-because i totally refused to take this help seriously. I was just miserable the whole time.
But this one night, a new girl came in who played piano and i was talking about how i was a jazz singer while we were in group therapy. We got really into talking about our music.
That night, one of our nurses noticed that we were both up really late, and she came and got us and took us to the rec room where there was a piano - and she let us make music together. She left us alone, or as alone as she could, by going into the adjoining office and leaving that door slightly open, because the main door had to be shut for our noise.
It was such a cathartic experience, to just be jamming out some van morrison together.. and it made me trust the nurses.
At that point, i let me guard down and started to allow myself to receive help.
Blessing all the birds that died so I could live
be a woman, be a woman
wen i was in hospital, the doctors and psychiatrists didnt really have much time to see u and u wernt there biggest concern. but having a friend that understood the situation was much better and more helpful wen things got worse again.
