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dawn_felagund

From Here to There...Work Training to the Daily Drabble

Sep 08, 2005 21:58

I had inservice training at work today. Which was good in some regards and bad in most.

( All Work and No Internet Makes An Unhappy 'gund )

work, daily drabble

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tarion_anarore September 9 2005, 03:40:23 UTC

Aww, its good!Celegorm...even if it only lasted like, two seconds.

dawn_felagund September 9 2005, 13:08:09 UTC

Well, my Celegorm is far from evil...jealous and misguided, but far from evil :)

As such, I don't think that I could write a true evil!Celegorm.

My Celegorm is more influenced than he thinks by Feanor and more bothered than he thinks by the notion of being Feanor's "foil." There's a lot going on in that pretty blond head of his. Hence the fact that I love to write him so much....

Stopping now, before I ramble!

tarion_anarore September 9 2005, 16:17:26 UTC

As such, I don't think that I could write a true evil!Celegorm.

Of course not! But I had to differentiate between jealous!moody!keyhole-breaking!Celegorm. ;) Only evil in the same sense of my cat being evil!kitty - at the time, it's like "ARGH!" but you get over it and love the kitty again.

There's a lot going on in that pretty blond head of his.

Hehe. *casually flings nuzgul* somebody should write a dumb blonde!Celegorm parody...0:)

Hence the fact that I love to write him so much....

I love when people love to write Celegorm, because I love to read Celegorm.

Stopping now, before I ramble!

But I like when you ramble! I don't feel like I'm rambling when other people are rambling too!

dawn_felagund September 9 2005, 17:36:43 UTC

Hehe. *casually flings nuzgul* somebody should write a dumb blonde!Celegorm parody...0:)

Erm....

::walks as though onto dangerously hot sand::

Umm...I have a dumb blond!Celegorm in the scene of the stupid Sil play thatIhavestoppedpostingandhopednoonewouldnotice.

Ahem.

And I have a dumb/treacherous!blond Celegorm in "The Election Farce of Nargothrond," which I also considered posting and never did.

So....

::hides::

But I like when you ramble! I don't feel like I'm rambling when other people are rambling too!

::comes out of hiding::

Now you can't *truly* ever feel that rambling is inappropriate in my company. After all, I even invented the word "rambly" for myself. So ramble away, with my blessings ;)

::goes back into hiding before anyone notices a lack of a certain play....::

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dawn_felagund September 9 2005, 13:10:22 UTC

You're welcome, always! :)

I did a lot of thinking about it too, during training. Which is probably why the morning session was the best inservice training I've had in my (nearly) two years here. Despite the fact that it is not applicable to my job at all, there is a lot of real life applicability.

DRABBLING AND DOODLING VS. WORK digdigil September 9 2005, 12:40:29 UTC

This was a very interesting read, Dawn. As you know I work in the health care field, so this kind of stuff really appeals to me. Do you think that the instructor perhaps meant that she thinks drugs are the CAUSE of some mental health issues? She may have been told that they are. Many institutions believe this to be the case.

LOL!! Doodles of Feanor stars and patterns for bottom of archer's robes! A good way to spend the time!

I'm going to think about the drabble for the word "demagogue" before I write something. I was going to do it on the spot because I thought it would be easy, but on second thought, easy wouldn't make it good!

I did one for "farrago" and put it in a comment in yesterday's post!

Re: DRABBLING AND DOODLING VS. WORK dawn_felagund September 9 2005, 13:17:23 UTC

Do you think that the instructor perhaps meant that she thinks drugs are the CAUSE of some mental health issues? She may have been told that they are.

I had that thought too, but she seemed so well-informed outside of that, I couldn't believe she'd make such an egregious error. Perhaps she just misspoke.

More likely, though, I think, is what you said, that people have a lot of misconceptions about mental health issues. They think that "crazy" behavior typical of someone addicted to drugs means that the person also has a psychological diagnosis, but every entry in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is qualified with something like "and the symptoms are not caused by drugs or any medical conditions." So someone who goes through the highs and lows of a drug addiction may *appear* to be "manic depressive" but they are not. Bipolar disorder happens without the help of any substances! (Take it from someone who is subject to mild mood swings herself! :D)

Re: DRABBLING AND DOODLING VS. WORK digdigil September 9 2005, 14:17:18 UTC

There seems to be so much that is not known about mental illness and that is why, I am sure, that nobody really knows how to treat it properly. I have witnessed first hand so many misdiagnoses and treatments that it is ridiculous. One thing that really struck me hard is that healthcare workers (mainly doctors) tend to believe the lies that patients tell them. If you do not know what the truth is, then how can you treat the real problem? For example, a rebellious teenager who is mad at her parents for not letting her stay out until 3 a.m. when she is only 14, will tell her teacher that her parents beat her. This is a lie. The teacher contacts the authorities, who believe the child, not the parents, and order treatment for THEM, not the kid. The only person who believed the parents was the cop who came to arrest them, because he has seen so much of this same bullsh** that he KNOWS the truth when it stares him in the face. However, the pyschologist who is treating the parents eventually comes to realize that perhaps THEY are not ( ... )

Re: DRABBLING AND DOODLING VS. WORK dawn_felagund September 9 2005, 14:46:28 UTC

I remember in Ye Olde College Dayes that there was always a lot of animosity between the psychologists and the psychiatrists. Because I studied in the psychologists' camp, I can wholly believe that story and attribute it to what so many of my professors said: A big danger in treating behavioral problems is an over-reliance on medication. Kid hyper? Ritalin! Hearing voices? Clozapine! Feeling down? Prozac!

Of course, I realize that psychiatric drugs have their place and use. But so many times, they are prescribed either a) by people with no training in psychology or b) with little or no talk therapy. I see that unfortunate story as being part of the second. Too many psychiatrists medicate a problem without spending enough time talking to the patient. This is not to say that psychologists are perfect either (or wouldn't have fallen for her scam), but your words "suggests that the kid be referred to a psychiatrist so that she can go on some sort of medication" made me cringe. And from a psychologist, too, who should realize that few ( ... )

FOOTBALL digdigil September 9 2005, 12:41:46 UTC

Oh, I forgot! Good game last night, eh? Although I fell asleep around 10:30 and didn't see the end, but OH ERU! I do LOVE that Randy Moss!

Re: FOOTBALL dawn_felagund September 9 2005, 13:20:32 UTC

Bobby had it on the television in our living room, which is adjacent to the study, where I was working, but I only *heard* bits and pieces, as I was busy catching up with my emails and LJ for the day.

When I went to bed (at eleven), New England was leading by 3, and I think it was the start of the third quarter. I *did* see, though, that spectacular catch that Moss made! Bobby made me get up to watch the replay.

I haven't even had time to check the final score yet, but I like both teams, so it's one of those scenarios where I wish for a good game more than for any one team to win.