Those with the mental health problems, are often, given a bad rep, because of how we all have the tendencies, to discriminate against them…translated…
There's a lot, that pleased me during the New Year's, first, my daughter-in-law, giving me the red envelope, second, I'd found, that someone I'd offered my services to, had a good New Year's Meal for one, not only did she go out shopping for the items for the New Year's Eve meals before the New Year's, on New Year's Day, she'd gone to the temples, and worked hard, enjoying her life…and my heart that worried over her as a social worker, finally, settled.
The individuals I'd counseled had been trapped by the long-term negative image, the psychiatric patients in the various communities. And naturally, some residents, of the, psych ward too, some were hospitalized for acute breakdowns, some are in the long-term assistance living facilities; the former would be discharged from the hospitals, return to their homes and neighborhoods, the latter, stayed in the facilities, because they'd lacked the socialization, or the support from friends, relatives or families, and are in need of professional, care.
All of these patients, are not at all like how the news media, or the outside world painted them into. They're similar to us all, most of them are kind, and with little to nothing to say, and there is also, a small portion who would, use the cunning means to get what they wanted, but not to the point of hurting someone else. But unfortunately, the new media often painted them as bad repeatedly, and in the accumulations of these ignorance, discriminations, the psych patients became, painted into the same as psychokillers or murderers.
The individual I offer my service to I'd mentioned, is quite talented, when he is stable, he could teach the courses. Or maybe, it's because of his talents, that's what made him, so, special, when I'd interacted him, I'd felt that he lives in the mindset of "I'm the only important person in this world", and so, many years ago, he'd attempted to try to overcome his condition, by using solely his own, will, refused to take the medications by schedule, which made him unstable, and the relapses became like a tsunamis, drowning his life.
Last year, he'd finally come to his senses, became willing to face the fact that his conditions had given him a ton of difficulties, and became willing to work with his symptoms, before the New Year's, the same scripts of how his loved ones felt helpless and worried, the neighbors avoiding him, calling emergency to have him delivered to the psych ward. I'm truly in awe of how he was willing to come to good terms with God, and I'd given him thumbs up for this.
Naturally we would come face to face with those uncoorperative clients (the unwilling cases), and at this time, we can only, find something the individuals are interested in, and make a connection that way, and we can't do everything based off of standard-operating procedure, like asking, "When's your next hospital visit? How many times do you need to be medicated a day?" (there was once a fellow workmate who'd blurted, "Did you take your meds like a good boy/girl? I'd thought, that asking the individual like s/he is a child, it will damage the individual's, pride)
As for the other facets of work, getting the phone slammed in our ears, being cussed at, the bad looks, all of these, and those situations, just smile over it, and let it pass, do NOT get angered by them, because, all of these outbursts, may be the clients' inability to face what's in their lives.
As a senior social worker, our biggest wish is that the individuals we work with, are all okay, this would be the biggest, reward to us, and benefiting the public too. After all, the harmony in society, is made possible by every one of us, not by taking it in, and, demeaning the minor populations.
And so, this is on the misunderstandings we often hold, of those who are in need of institutionalizing, but, because of how they're all assigned as "mentally ill", that gave them a bad name, and, if we can all, treat these troubled individuals with the dignity, understanding they deserve, and show more tolerance toward them, then, that would reduce a lot of the problems in the world right now. But we can't say that we can all, do that, so…
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