community-based psychiatric adventures of the mentally normal

[Mitchy1nge]

am not sure if mavis is still in this one

If he ever says the words "sick role" to you you have my permission to shut him up with a rolled up copy of Hamlet.

will see if other people are interested in whether psychiatrists are learning enough about brain rot and social factors and so on

You couldn't take it seriously?

Does that mean you think you're too good for the relaxation room? Does it?

I am interested as it was a US perspective in how it compares to the UK situation which I believe is the same for all specialisms for at least a a couple of years after graduation.

crisis teams come out with really interesting stuff sometimes

am sure it was a crisis/home treatment psych who told me my problem was that I read too much

These people who only ever see you when you're ill; they proceed based on the assumption that that's how you always are. Which is irrational. But woe betide the mental who points that out.

think the author is British and qualified here, up to a point, before working in the states

A member of HTT started talking to me about chakras

Yes I thought that was the made Mitchy which can made me wonder when he talked about psychiatrists having less medical background than other specialisms, why that would be the case, when they do the same degrees and foundation years.

Was the case

wanted to find the bit about bad unintended effects of diagnosis

is annoying on a phone

Oh various Gods I make no sense any more.

nothing else makes sense anyway

so don't worry

Crisis makes me laugh.

There's this magical bath, apparently, that can do wonders for you if you're feeling stressed or you're hearing shit or you think your world is collapsing around your ears.

If you get into the magical bath then it will all melt away. Wooooooo.

As for psychiatrists, well its all a bit hit and miss. the one at the hospital and the one on the crisis team here are lovely. I've always thought that as part of their continuing professional development, though, they should regularly spend a week on the ward to experience its full delights and have a good go on some of the meds they prescribe.

Don't forget the magical walk (I live by a railway with an instantly fatal third rail system which has been shown in recent years to be perfectly capable of felling a shore horse) and the magical cup of tea.

SHIRE

Oh yes, between the magical bath, the walk of wonder and the healing cup of tea, there's nothing that the crisis team can't fix.

I love the magical bath and especially the hot milky drink. When my daughter set fire to the adolescent unit I was desperate to advise them that it sounded like anxiety and to run her a bath and try the hot milky drink, just like the crisis team suggested when she set fire to my house and was found trying to hang herself.

Funnily enough my most recent spell with the home treatment team involved none of that, and lots of being urged to drug myself silly with clonazepam.

Mitchy, I really think they should have done just that. Fit out all of the extra care suites with a hot milky drink dispenser for those really manic moments.

Yes funnily enough, when it's them that has to deal with it all, out comes the PRN haloperidol.

Has anyone else had the "if you can't sleep, have you tried just lying down with your eyes shut and having a rest" one?

According to DP, hot drinks were the treatment of choice for 70s asthma attacks, too. Truly magical.

I don't remember that one but I remember being woken, routinely, and given another sleeping pill in the night

woken from Already Being Asleep

they still do this