This week I’ve had 2 quizzes, 1 test, and 1 skills validation so far. Three of those were today and I have another test on Friday. So that’s 5 major things this week. Ugh, lots of stress
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This has nothing to do with the Mayan calendar. This had to do with mutterings about numbers. I'm not too sure how her numerology worked, but it had something to do with "the son, the father, and the holy ghost".
I really wasn't paying attention to her mutterings, I was just glad that the room was dark so she couldn't see my look of shock.
I don't have any of the answers but maybe some guesses. My first guess is maybe people believe that if they become religious fanatics that God will help them to get out of their problems or that it is worth a try to see if that is what is filling in the gap they feel. I'm not sure. I have mental health issues big time and I am definitely religious..are they related? I don't think so..but again, maybe. I had a schizophrenic resident in Iowa who believed God was a butterfly that he kept in his room..and I heard all about different theories from the butterfly. And I think creation and evolution can happen together. I definitely believe in both. Hopefully the stories you heard either made you laugh or think, or if nothing else, helped you get away from your stress. All those tests and stuff must suck. Good luck on getting through it, I know you can do it! You are one tough woman.
There is a big difference between someone who is deeply religious like you and someone who is fanatically religious.
Quite honestly the woman scared the crap out of me. She'd already had a code green (the restraint team) called on her earlier in the day. They chemically restrained her and threatened her with physical restraints. They left a pillowcase full of physical restraints on our unit just incase.
It really wasn't because of her religious views that scared me. It was the one track mindset. If I didn't agree with her that Jesus coming back was the best thing ever, her anxiety rose, she'd get up and start pacing, start talking about how she trusted no one and needed to get out... I'm not trained to deal with psych patients and I don't think anyone on my unit has been trained in restraining a psych patient in a VERY long time. It just seemed like a very unsafe situation. Thankfully she was transfered back to psych the next night.
Well, you also see crazy people becoming obsessed with other things based on culture - like the friend of a friend of mine, I suppose you might call him (maybe you know who I'm talking about), who's a paranoid schizophrenic and sincerely believes things like 1. He's some big pagan magic guy, and actually a pretty big deal in that community (doubt it). 2. Blah blah demons blah blah. 3. There are aliens out there; they abduct people; they have abducted him on numerous occasions; he can make them go away with his mind.
Now, two out of the three of these are religious in one way or another (the guy's a Christian as well - oh, I'm sorry, he's a "messianic Jew"), but three out of the three of them draw from tropes prevalent in our culture.
The other thing I'd throw out there as a hypothesis is that being religiously crazy, rather than just plain crazy, is to some extent more culturally acceptable; so these people, consciously or unconsciously, channel their crazy into something that, at least in their minds, won't get them labelled as
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I really wasn't paying attention to her mutterings, I was just glad that the room was dark so she couldn't see my look of shock.
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Quite honestly the woman scared the crap out of me. She'd already had a code green (the restraint team) called on her earlier in the day. They chemically restrained her and threatened her with physical restraints. They left a pillowcase full of physical restraints on our unit just incase.
It really wasn't because of her religious views that scared me. It was the one track mindset. If I didn't agree with her that Jesus coming back was the best thing ever, her anxiety rose, she'd get up and start pacing, start talking about how she trusted no one and needed to get out... I'm not trained to deal with psych patients and I don't think anyone on my unit has been trained in restraining a psych patient in a VERY long time. It just seemed like a very unsafe situation. Thankfully she was transfered back to psych the next night.
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although researchers agree it's definitely a common genre of hallucinations, no real reasearch has been found yet as to why that happens
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I'm surprised there isn't more research on this. I was thinking it might have to do something with gaining acceptance.
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1. He's some big pagan magic guy, and actually a pretty big deal in that community (doubt it).
2. Blah blah demons blah blah.
3. There are aliens out there; they abduct people; they have abducted him on numerous occasions; he can make them go away with his mind.
Now, two out of the three of these are religious in one way or another (the guy's a Christian as well - oh, I'm sorry, he's a "messianic Jew"), but three out of the three of them draw from tropes prevalent in our culture.
The other thing I'd throw out there as a hypothesis is that being religiously crazy, rather than just plain crazy, is to some extent more culturally acceptable; so these people, consciously or unconsciously, channel their crazy into something that, at least in their minds, won't get them labelled as ( ... )
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