Insight
Don points at me. "You should listen to him because he’s short. Short people have bigger brains." Sometimes I think that for a man with schizophrenia, Don exudes great insight on occasion.
Roffman JL. Eight Ball. Am J Psychiatry 2008; 165:956-957
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/165/8/956
i don't know why but i love this story.
To my pleasant surprise, a game of eight ball has diffused the alienating, controlled chaos that I felt as a new student on the psychosis ward, like a prism to white light. How strange and marvelous and sad it is, to discover such familiar dreams and aspirations, refracted across a rickety pool table.
a timely reminder that they're human after all. i'll never really be comfortable doing psychiatry, psychotic patients still scare the crap out of me, and alot of times, i still don't know what to say when patients ask me if i understand, or if i believe them. but i'm in a much more comfortable place than the 1st week i spent in stratheden hospital.
Roffman JL. Eight Ball. Am J Psychiatry 2008; 165:956-957
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/165/8/956
i don't know why but i love this story.
To my pleasant surprise, a game of eight ball has diffused the alienating, controlled chaos that I felt as a new student on the psychosis ward, like a prism to white light. How strange and marvelous and sad it is, to discover such familiar dreams and aspirations, refracted across a rickety pool table.
a timely reminder that they're human after all. i'll never really be comfortable doing psychiatry, psychotic patients still scare the crap out of me, and alot of times, i still don't know what to say when patients ask me if i understand, or if i believe them. but i'm in a much more comfortable place than the 1st week i spent in stratheden hospital.