At last, the fourth and final part of my reflection on “hearing voices that are distressing.” You can catch up on any of the previous posts by clicking on part 1, part 2, or part 3. The conclusion of this simulation involved a “community outing.” We were assigned to a particular outing based on the [...]
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Hearing Voices That Are Distressing: Part 4 of 4
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged hearing voices, mental health, schizophrenia on February 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hearing Voices That Are Distressing: Part 3 of 4
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged hearing voices, schizophrenia on February 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
If you’ve been following my multi-part reflection on the “Hearing Voices That Are Distressing” exercise in which I participated as part of my Mental Health class for OT school, then you know that this section I am writing about has already been preceded by two other stations: the problem solving station with the “supervisor” and [...]
Hearing Voices That Are Distressing: Part 2 of 4
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged hearing voices, schizophrenia on February 12, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Yesterday I shared a reflection on the first of four parts of the “Hearing Voices That Are Distressing” simulation in which I recently participated. Now it’s time to move onto the second station: After several minutes of shamefully unsuccessful attempts to complete the problem solving tasks, I was relieved to shuffle over to the second [...]
Hearing Voices That Are Distressing: Part 1 of 4
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged hearing voices, schizophrenia on February 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Over the course of the next few days, I’ll be sharing four parts of an elaboration on an assignment that I recently completed for my Mental Health class. This assignment served as a simulation of the type of distressing voices that a person with a mental illness such as schizophrenia may experience (keyword being simulation, [...]
people are people.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bipolar disorder, depression, Occupational Therapy, psychiatric, schizophrenia on November 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When I was an undergraduate, I went through a period of being clinically depressed. I met regularly with a Psychologist, and she helped me to understand what I was going through and how I could work on getting better. Though it was a four-month period of my life that I hoped I would never have [...]
