Posted by syringachalet on January 6, 2003, at 15:24:00
In reply to Re: Movies that feature Therapy/mental illness » syringachalet, posted by rayww on January 6, 2003, at 12:21:04
Thank you rayww, bluedog and all for your understanding and support. I find comfort in those who are walking in my shoes daily and those who can personally identify with a topic I have such passion for...the forgotten people.
I went through Hell myself to prove that I could get myself well enough to use a gift that God granted me to reach out and help these people that I care so deeply about.
To get my registered nurse license, I went through so many psych evals and employment reference checks back in the early 1080s that at times I almost gave up. I lost some very nice jobs back then because of this insane regime.
I actually had a kind of 'witch hunt' among my nursing classmates when I came across an old patient friend of mine that I knew well while hospitalized in the state hospital. It was my refusal to claim to these people he was just crazy and denying him I knew him... that classmates that wanted me bumped from the program. These classsmates were people that I had also tutored through several of the really tough courses in our nursing program.
Thankfully my instructors didnt listen to them and as long as I preformed as well in my
clinical and classroom obligations as everyone else, I was allowed to stay and graduated with honors.Even today I get funny looks from people when I tell them Im a nurse. They think that because of my MS and my mobility chair that I couldnt possibly be competent to be a nurse....
I jokingly tell them that my employer hired me from the neck up...it ususally get at least one smile and one red face, usually appropriately placed.
Yes, movies like A Beautiful Mind do stir me and were probably targeted to the general population as at means of both entertainment and education.
Probably a small attempt to let people know that mentally illness has 'come a long way, baby... that MI peope can and do function in society and at various levels. That their mostly hidden and greatest disbility lies in the minds and hearts of those that preceive them as such.It was John Nashs ability to think abstractly and 'outside the box' that kept him in a tornado of fear, paranoia and depression.
Freud often said that anger turned intoward was depression...maybe John Nash had good reason to be depressed... and angry, dont you?Thank you and be well.
We cant all be heros.. some of us must sit on the curb and clap as the rest go by.....
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