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In this article, we’ll have a look at the public system and how it is funded. Then, I’ll examine the parallel, private system. After that, we’ll [...]
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The Irish health system is rather complicated, containing both a comprehensive and entirely public network of hospitals and clinics, and an equally wide-ranging system of private non-profit establishments.
This is a post about the systematic, institutional abuse of patients by mental health nursing staff.
I had the misfortune in the late 1990s of spending a year in total as an inpatient in a Big Dublin Hospital where many of the staff treated the patients with a mixture of disgust, antipathy and contempt. [...] Come across this in a few places. None of which link to the original research.
Nicotine improves brain function in schizophrenics, from Cosmos magazine: Researchers led by Ruth Barr, a psychiatrist at Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, set out to find if the nicotine in cigarettes was helping patients to overcome their difficulties with [...] That phrase, “You Own Your Own Feelings” is one that used to get repeated to me over and over by therapists at Big Dublin Hospital. They were telling me that it was entirely a matter of choice if I chose to be upset about, among other things, severe physical abuse and sexual type [...]
(Guest post by jessa)
What would you do if you knew that tomorrow when you go to work, all of your patients would have very high IQs, all much higher than your own? Okay, I really do want an answer to that question, but of course I am also trying to make a point. (Guest post by jessa)
I’m kind of on a quest. In trying to figure out how to make mental health care better, I’ve tried to figure out what has gone wrong. What happens to turn people who went into this profession with the genuine intention of helping people into people who harm their patients [...] (Guest post by DeeDee Ramona)
With additional material provided by a friend who wished to remain anonymous. Please note that as I’ve also been asked to write a version for distribution in the USA, a lot of the language is targetted in that direction. Introduction (Guest post by A Mental)
I must apologise for this first introduction as not only are there my normal levels of confusion to deal with, but I have also taken my sleepers, which add all sorts of exciting confusion such as voices and people running around fast etc etc. So this may actually make [...] It’s not a euphamism. I mean it quite literally.
Blind people have had them for years. Now deaf people have hearing dogs. But what use can a dog be to a person with a mental illness? According to the limited information – and Wiki – quite a lot. A psychiatric service dog is a specific type [...] Before I begin – beakie started it.
I was replying in the comments thread and, as per usual, it became verbose and convoluted. So I’m setting up camp here for the counter-argument. Is CBT (or any psychological or social therapy, like the Hoffman Process) Boswellox? Does it have any credibility? I suggest it does. And I [...] (guest post by jessa)
Mental health care professionals have to write about their patients, but this has been a mysterious process to me. I have had to chart, but in a different setting. I used to work in a home for four developmentally disabled men; they were all paraplegic, only one could speak, and [...] (Guest post by Jessa)
In the Mental Nurse forums, Nell and I were discussing plans for a survival guide to mental health care (you should contribute when we get around to making a more formal request) and we got off on a tangent about our linguistic bones of contention with mental health care. These [...] A person moves to a local small community. One of the community team knows him from previous admissions to hospital in another region following “bizarre behaviour” in public.
The man is known to have a diagnosis of “Schizophrenia”. Anecdotal reports suggest that the person can become extremely unwell within a month if not taking [...] Another one of those ideas has been bobbing about my head lately – and Shrink has posted a similar theme on Dementia specialism . So here is my expanded working-adult-age version.
A big general hospital has a medical ward, a surgical ward, renal ward, maternity ward, oncology ward, cardiac ward. It makes sense. Medical [...] (Guest post by Jessa)
Hi, I’m jessa. I’ve posted comments ’round these parts a fair bit recently and when I mentioned in one of those comments that I had a lot of questions for professionals for which I could find no answers, Mental Nurse invited me to write up a guest post. I asked [...] |
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