tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161065053564080769.post7801058719529578324..comments2023-10-29T00:36:46.747+10:00Comments on grahamm44: Transverse Myelitis: On Pushing Yourself and StressAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14519461744750490160noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161065053564080769.post-69765538308636937502016-04-21T19:25:26.384+10:002016-04-21T19:25:26.384+10:00Hi Graham I heard your interview with Richard Fidl...Hi Graham I heard your interview with Richard Fidler recently and was very impressed and moved by it. Reading your blog, it seems you are making a tremendous effort and steady progress despite the trauma you experienced (as so many do) as a patient in the healthcare system. Don't let the iphone app drag you down or the GP's judgements which are, as you note, designed to satisfy beurocrats. This is the problem with healthcare these days. It's become so beurocratised and so divorced from the human element. There is scant awareness of the importance of connecting with the patient and providing encouragement and validation. One patient told me a nurse had told her recently, in answer to her question "would you mind smiling occasionally?": "I dont have time to smile'. What have we come to? <br />I was excited to hear abouf the voice and movement treatment for self harners you spoke about in the Fidler interview. How sad that your colleagues laughed at the idea. It shows how convergent their thinking is. So sad that psychiatry has becone entirely bio-reductionist. History will judge this era of treatment very harshly I suspect. I'm a psych nurse and have a Masters in psychotherapy and I see the damage done every day. .It's good to hear the voice of a psychiatrist with a more philosophical, creative and free thinking mentality. If only there were more like you. But the system is discouraging creative thinkers so that we end up with specialists with all the imagination and existential awareness of bank managers. JenKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16756864978018669001noreply@blogger.com