My clinical experience so far has been quite interesting, because I learned basic clinical procedures and preventions that I know will benefit me as a nurse in the near future. During lab, we discussed infection control, personal hygiene, and isolation precautions. These procedures impact my personal health and wellness, because I need to ensure that I am using the proper techniques in order to keep me safe. Also, I know that it is important to make sure my patients are not at risk of developing hospital associated infections.…
The pain began slowly, pricking me with its sharp needles only while doing barre in ballet once a week. I ignored it, believing it to be normal, common discomfort that would soon go away, typical thoughts of a dancer whose entire sport is centered around “good pain”. Six months later, it had escalated to the degree that every step I took felt like an arrow to my knee. Dancing had become impossible, and it was determined that I should be taken to the orthopedist. The bland, brown and beige lobby became extraordinarily familiar as I waited two hours to be examined.…
Mental illness is a reality for millions of people around the world. Mental illness has many different shapes, forms and classifications. The way we have explored the different facets of mental illness has evolved from even fifty years ago. However, not all individuals recognize the existence of mental illness. Some believe that mental illness is an imagined illness and does not truly affect people on a daily basis.…
X was a bright, ambitious and energetic person, and he was loved by everyone alike. After years of hard work, he’d gotten into law school and was finally living his dream he had struggled so long for. He was also my best friend. When I came back home from college that year, I was met with somber and anxious faces rather than smiles and hugs. Blankly, I looked at my father’s face when he broke the shocking news that X had passed away from a drug overdose.…
More recently, I began working for Restore therapy, LLC. as a (SLPA). When I began my position, I was initially ecstatic because this would be my first SLPA position, outside of my clinical experience, after stepping away from the CDIS graduate program. As exciting as this was, a few weeks into the position I felt overwhelmed with lesson plans, providing individual and group therapy, as well as writing individualized education plans (IEPs) for each student on my caseload. (But through perseverance and confidence), by adhering to the specific slots in my schedule reserved for consultation and the development of IEPs, I have become well-organized and efficient in my work.…
“What are you going to do?” Dan asked. “I’m not sure,” Bertha muttered. “I need more time to think it over” “Well, let me know when you decide,” he replied, turning his back to her.…
The sun was setting over the horizon. The sky is getting imprinted with blue and grey undertones. Trees are blowing in the breeze. The city of Brig, Switzerland is shining brightly with yellow lights. One house on Kirchgasse Street, was all quiet.…
When is it okay to be vulnerable? If you ask my father the answer is never. Maybe I should follow his advice and never be vulnerable. But If I took his advice more often I wouldn’t have ended up at a college 366.16 miles away from home. Change is not something I excel at.…
The most helpless I’ve ever felt was when I dealt with clinical depression. My sophomore year of high school my family was faced with my mother’s arrest and booking at a detention center on illegal immigration charges for about three weeks. My mother has been a single parent for my sister and I our entire lives, so the fear of her deportation had always felt like a weight on our shoulders that could drop at any given moment and it had finally fallen on us. The stress, anxiety, and panic this situation created lead me to become severely depressed. I was overcome with helplessness and missed school frequently because I felt it was useless and I found myself unable to focus.…
A silent epidemic has plagued the nation. It has stolen innocent lives and has spared no mercy. This monster sneaks around the corners, lurks in the shadows, and attacks when nobody is watching. This monster does not hide under the bed. In fact, this monster lies within the brain of every victim it infects.…
When I was thirteen, I made the mistake of trying to calm her down whilst she was high. She picked me up and threw me into the wall. The drug had given her so much strength, considering you could clench your hand around her upper arm. She was shaking and sweating, her pupils wide. She aggressively pouring water on her face, aiming for her mouth.…
My first time in a mental institution It started out as a good day, I was happy but at the same time I could feel everything slowly slipping away from me. While I was at work my mood suddenly took a turn for the worst I decided to pick up a pair of scissors that were sitting there on my register. My first thought was maybe just a small cut and you’ll feel better, all you have to do is just cut once and everything will be fine, so I did but I couldn’t stop there…
“Never make a mountain out of a mole hill,” I grew up not understanding what that meant, but now I know. It essentially means that you shouldn’t play with your fate, you never know what could happen or what you could see. I grew up believing depression would never get to me that I would be unaffected by it, but now I know that this is not the case. I used to be told by my father that depressed people were ‘freaks’ or ‘crying out for attention’, but there are many people who suffer in silence, who don’t let people know how they truly feel-me included. I’ve seen some traumatic things, things that have scarred me for life, I’m going to tell you some of those things right now.…
This essay will analyse the statement 'mental illness is a social problem”. To examine this statement the sociological perspectives will be discussed as well as common social contributors to mental illness with in the concept of gender and lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender and inter-sexual community (LGBTI). The aim of this essay is discuss and elaborate on the concept of gender and more specifically the LGBTI community in Australia and how mental illness affects according to gender, gender identity and sexuality and how mental illness is a social problem. Implications and limitations of sociological perspectives related to the sociology of mental illness and how 'mental illness is a social problem ' will also be discussed. By applying sociological and theoretical perspectives as well as structure-agency debate and the social and biomedical modes role in consideration to the issue, will help support the statement ‘mental illness is a social problem’.…
The sickness that I live with is one that some would find excessively appalling, making it impossible to talk about; so I kept it to a whisper. This sickness I thought was to embarrassing to talk about, making it impossible to seek help, left me feeling alone in the dark. This sickness ruined friendships, without me realizing it. This sickness that made getting out of bed a struggle for me. This sickness made it impossible for me to see a positive future, until the day I stopped calling myself “crazy” and began to grow from what we all call, depression.…