Posted by jakeo29 on December 10, 2008, at 11:04:25
In reply to Re: To finish Neuroscience degree in psychology » SLS, posted by B2chica on December 9, 2008, at 11:41:05
Hi B2 Chica, When I was hospitalized for depression and behavioral attention seeking autistic pseudo-seizure type outbursts as I like to call them, It was some of the best therapy for me to be around people with Bi-polar, depression, anorexia, and psychosis. People in the day to day world stereotype the heck out of us, the most kindest people in the hospital were not the nurses but the patients. I hung around a cool patient that had schizophrenia. She was happy go lucky and singing at the top of her lungs. Since we understand more than most of how these disorders work, I had fun getting to know her, while the nurses behind the desk did not seem to know much about what its like and just gave us "were crazy" looks. We would always talk about how the nurses see to have more problems than we did. All of a sudden a discovery channel show about Ants came on the TV. the schizophrenic patient was all cheery then when that show came on, I never saw someones attention switch so fast to a "paranoid" like state. I had the remote in hand, as I observed that, I sneakily changed the TV to the weather channel. She went back to the "happy-go-lucky" schizophrenic side. Again I think we understand our fellow friends more than some of the trained professionals. I had to go in there for a medication induced Mania state. Therefore for the first time, I know what it can be like for people living with Bi-polar mania and possibly psychosis. I was up during weird hours, and had auditory perception associations and hypervigilance (as if I had super hearing). I want to write the experience in a notebook, but I decided to walk to the hospital because I knew something was not right. Sure enough it was a med reaction as my blood pressure was 175/140 during the manic flight. The symptoms went away in about 30 minutes after they administered lorazempam in the emergency room. However I happily requested to go the psych floor for a few days, to make sure things were back to normal. As a looked out the window in the unit, I said "it's nice to be out of this crazy world for a few days and into the relatively safe, sane, confinement of the psych unit." :)
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