Thought Paper – Our Last Guest Speaker
Throughout the semester, we have been lucky enough to hear the personal stories of a number of individuals who struggle with mental illness. Each of these stories touched us and make us open our eyes to the fact that mental illness is more than just the cases that we read about in the textbooks; and our final speaker was no different. I also found that there were some striking parallels between Anne’s experiences and the ones that were mentioned in Karp’s book.
To begin, I wanted to say that I really loved the way that Anne described her story because it was very vivid. It was different from the other speakers that we had, because the way she described it made it easy for me to picture myself going along with her. She was able to tell her story in a way so that the listener could be right beside her as she recounted her story. I also think that it’s wonderful that she can share her story with others, and hopefully by doing this, she is healing herself as well.
Moreover, I thought that it was interesting that she …show more content…
Sometimes the people around us don’t understand what we’re going through, or why we’ve been acting in a certain way until we get diagnosed or are hospitalized. I thought that maybe after hospitalization, it would bring more understanding and her children would be able to understand their mother more. However, I guess that this is because my views are a little obscured by my own experiences. This is really unfortunate, because I think that sometimes, hospitalization is like sending a signal out that says, “something isn’t right.” And after that signal is out, others should be more understanding that something is wrong, and this should make others more compassionate. I think that it’s awful that we become more afraid once someone is
Throughout the semester, we have been lucky enough to hear the personal stories of a number of individuals who struggle with mental illness. Each of these stories touched us and make us open our eyes to the fact that mental illness is more than just the cases that we read about in the textbooks; and our final speaker was no different. I also found that there were some striking parallels between Anne’s experiences and the ones that were mentioned in Karp’s book.
To begin, I wanted to say that I really loved the way that Anne described her story because it was very vivid. It was different from the other speakers that we had, because the way she described it made it easy for me to picture myself going along with her. She was able to tell her story in a way so that the listener could be right beside her as she recounted her story. I also think that it’s wonderful that she can share her story with others, and hopefully by doing this, she is healing herself as well.
Moreover, I thought that it was interesting that she …show more content…
Sometimes the people around us don’t understand what we’re going through, or why we’ve been acting in a certain way until we get diagnosed or are hospitalized. I thought that maybe after hospitalization, it would bring more understanding and her children would be able to understand their mother more. However, I guess that this is because my views are a little obscured by my own experiences. This is really unfortunate, because I think that sometimes, hospitalization is like sending a signal out that says, “something isn’t right.” And after that signal is out, others should be more understanding that something is wrong, and this should make others more compassionate. I think that it’s awful that we become more afraid once someone is