Losing the will to live. Anyone fancy writing my assignment for me??

[tiredemma]

Ive been sat here for what feels like days.

I hate all this academic/theory shit.

Sorry I have my own assignments and activities to avoid .

What's it on?

Acute Mental Illness, I have two to do- I have done the one. The other one is about Moral Dilemmas posed by a chappie with schziophrenia who doesnt believe he is unwell and so refuses to take medication.

Quite long winded really, and utterly time consuming.

Ooo that's quite though provoking isn't it?

His moral rights not to take drugs but is does he have the mental capacity to make that decsion?
So should he be subject to a court order or whatever?
The safety of the general public? Is that an issue?
Safety of himself if not take drugs?
How frequently?
What are views on his case from key workers, health professionals, carers etc

What do you do for a living Clarice? You sound scarily like someone who works in mental health.

SAHM! So in some ways it is a bit of a nut house around here

What are you doing...I think I have bounced ideas for you before...it is always quite interesting

How far have you got?

Just an aside...there are plenty of mentally ill people around who do not harm but we tend to only hear about the tragedy's so there is a disproportionate fear

Thanks for you help- off to crack on now.

Im doing a degree in mental health nursing, I love it- just wish that there wasnt so emphasis on essays- Im much better in clinical practice!

thanks again

At last

Finito.

Well done you
You written that 2. one very quickly...I envy you...

its probably crap though!

That sounds really interesting TE!!

I have just finished a module in abnormal & clinical psychology, I loved the schizophrenia lectures!! Also the bipolar ones. Though when it came to the exam I answered the questions about preventions & rehabilitation in the community for the mentally ill, Expressed Emotion in schizophrenia & Bipolar V Unipolar. Am dreading getting the results back though.. I know I learned it well enough, but in the middle of the Expressed Emotion one my mind went blank!!!!!!!!

I am sure it won't be ,Tiredemma

Schizophrenia fascinates me firefly- I was so fortunate on my placement to build fantastic relationships with clients and really gain some kind of understanding of the illness.

Its such as shame that the common misconception of people with schizophrenia is that they are all capable of killing someone- creates such problems for them in the community.

Mental illness is very mis-portrayed anyway, and there is such stigma, it's not surprising really if people don't try to get help....

The moral dilema that you have is played out on a regular basis by the dd of a friend of my MIL.

DD doesn't hink she is ill, so stops taking her meds, goes way off, is comitted, back on meds, discharged, comes off meds. And so on and so on. Her mnother is elderly, has just ost her ds and dh to cancer and is beside herself with worry

Definitely, when a high % of schizophrenia sufferers are a bigger harm to themselves than others

The public need educated more re: schizophrenia & mental illness in general.

dd is not a danger to others btw, 'just' to herself

Oh mb That must be very difficult.

It is awful.

Biggest worry that mother has is what will happen to her dd when she dies (mother must be in her late 70s).

Dd is in semi sheltered accomdation, which is better than most in her situation, but she is anything but stable.

tiredemma, I have to say your post made me lol - I am sitting here with giant pile of essays to mark and can also feel my will to live ebbing away...

MB- its called 'revolving door syndrome' - the scenario that I have to comment on is a true story- and I have to say its something that is so common. Many anti-psychotic drugs turn clients into zombies and so they feel that they shouldnt have to take them. so many people with schizophrenia lack insight.

You have described this woman perfectly.

She takes the meds, begins to get under control, started to geel awful from the side effects of the meds, thinks (not unreasonably in some respects), 'I'm OK now, I'm back under control, I don't want to feel like crap, I don't need this stuff'

and the horrid cycle continues.

What do you think can be done to reduce this cycel?

I have seen an Intensive Cognitive Behavioural approach to counselling used in this instance (well, seen it recommended - for many people)- trying to get clients to understand their illness and therefore gain insight and comply. Whether this will work or not though....
Most people I have come across on inpatients have been in MH services most of their life, in and out of hospital for the same reason. Non compliance so im a bit as to whether CBT would have any impact- but their is research out there to suggest that it does.

Does this girl have a key worker?

there is research- not their!!

yes, but she is not amazingly helpful. She just keeps saying that the dd has the right to stop medicating (which everyone knows anyway) and then just arranges for the doctors to section.

I realise this isn't the norm, the woman is just unlucky.