Hey Alex this is leticia,
the reason why I liked ur blog post is because, I felt for someone to see someone die or close to death is a scary situation. I also like the questions that you asked, Is suicide an illness? How can the mental part of you want to die but the physical part of you want to keep going?
These questions to me show, that this is not something u see daily life and it effect you in some way. " Then there was a scream. At that point I figured out what was going on. The girl in just the t-shirt had walked into the train as it was coming in the station. I went closer to check out what happened and I saw her laid out under the train but she was still breathing. Somebody called 911 but I noticed it took a while for an ambulance to get to the station. Nobody really knew what to do". Do you think a person should know what to do in those situations?..If it was just you and the girl would you have done something?
Hey Chris its Leticia ,
I like your blog post because it seems that your friends father has an important impact on you. The fact that you did research shows you wanted to learn more about, I think Its important to know whats going on with the people you care aboout."my childhood he was like my second father and he was always filled with energy and ready to play sports and hang out so when he told me that i was really surprised. After speaking to my friend I did some research and everything he told me I found on the internet while doing research for side effects of having a stroke." I think this part of the blog shows your feeling towards your friend and his father.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
HW 30 - Illness & Dying - Culminating Experiential Project
-History of mental insution -Isolation
-Real life situations
-Precis
The Colonial American society referred to those suffering from mental illnesses as ‘lunatics” which interestingly enough was derived from the root word lunar meaning, “moon.” Through astrological reasoning it was believed that insanity was caused by a full moon at the time of a baby’s birth or a baby sleeping under the light of a full moon. Colonists declared these lunatics possessed by the devil, and usually they were removed from society and locked away.
during these times people believed that certain way is to solve this is problem is to isolate the person and bring them to a cerain "clamness"
Such medical procedures involved submerging patients in ice baths until they lost consciousness or executing a massive shock to the brain. Means to expel crisis from the patient included inducing vomiting and the notorious “bleeding” practice. The bleeding
practice entailed draining the bad blood from the individual, unfortunately this inhumane practice normally resulted in death or the need for lifelong care; at best the odds were one in three that this procedure would actually lead to an improvement in the patient’s health. Although the colonial era’s methods of handling the mentally ill and medical procedures could be considered barbaric by present- day standards, the vast majority of people were content because the lunatics were no longer visible in society.
If a person seems not normal, keep them form the socitey to push them away, still done in mental instutations today.
Patients that seemed "Not Normal" experimental...
The original lobotomy was a medical procedure where the neural passages from the front of the brain are surgically separated from those in the back of the brain. The common result of this procedure was the patient forgetting their depressing or discouraging feelings or tendencies. This was a very delicate, time-consuming procedure that required great skill and training from the practicing surgeons. Because the lobotomy appeared to effectively alter the mental health of patients, great effort was invested into developing a more practical procedure with similar desired results.
Articles patients being mistreated
Isolation
Précis: This book is about a patient name Mcmurphy and his life in the mental institution, he actually thought that will be better than going to jail. After a couple days in the mental hospital, he realized going to jail would have been better. In this book he experience, having friends he never thought of and living a life that was unexpected.
2. McMurphy tells Harding that the meeting was a “pecking party”—the men acted like a bunch of chickens pecking at another chicken’s wound. He warns them that a pecking party can wipe out the whole flock( 35) The reason why I like this quote, is because this explains that in the mental hospital they treat the patients as though they got problems instead of helping them it becomes a" pecking party" the people with all the problems and the nurses are not help because they are in the movement of treating them not "normal"
http://www.toddlertime.com/advocacy/hospitals/Asylum/history-asylum.htm
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/7556020/
http://www.mcrh.org/Teen-Health/61132.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/nyregion/02hosp.html
-Real life situations
-Precis
For this project, I focused on the history of mental institutions. The reason why I choose this is because the mental institutions is not a form of caring but to make patients feel they are not part of the "normal society". This relates to the dying/sick unit because in hospitals its not about the personal feeling but just getting the job done. I’m also reading the book One flew over the cuckoo's Nest. This book demonstrates how a patient feels about being the mental institutions. He feels isolation and the nurse’s treats him like he is not smart. In hospitals people die every day, the room is cleaned as if they never had a person there. They don’t hold memories of the patients but move on; in mental hospitals they keep the patient trap and treat them not "normal".
The History of Mental Illness
1st Revolution: Hospitalization.
2nd Revolution: Moral Management.
3rd Revolution: Society Cooperation & Interaction.
2nd Revolution: Moral Management.
3rd Revolution: Society Cooperation & Interaction.
The Colonial American society referred to those suffering from mental illnesses as ‘lunatics” which interestingly enough was derived from the root word lunar meaning, “moon.” Through astrological reasoning it was believed that insanity was caused by a full moon at the time of a baby’s birth or a baby sleeping under the light of a full moon. Colonists declared these lunatics possessed by the devil, and usually they were removed from society and locked away.
during these times people believed that certain way is to solve this is problem is to isolate the person and bring them to a cerain "clamness"
Such medical procedures involved submerging patients in ice baths until they lost consciousness or executing a massive shock to the brain. Means to expel crisis from the patient included inducing vomiting and the notorious “bleeding” practice. The bleeding
practice entailed draining the bad blood from the individual, unfortunately this inhumane practice normally resulted in death or the need for lifelong care; at best the odds were one in three that this procedure would actually lead to an improvement in the patient’s health. Although the colonial era’s methods of handling the mentally ill and medical procedures could be considered barbaric by present- day standards, the vast majority of people were content because the lunatics were no longer visible in society.If a person seems not normal, keep them form the socitey to push them away, still done in mental instutations today.
Patients that seemed "Not Normal" experimental...
The original lobotomy was a medical procedure where the neural passages from the front of the brain are surgically separated from those in the back of the brain. The common result of this procedure was the patient forgetting their depressing or discouraging feelings or tendencies. This was a very delicate, time-consuming procedure that required great skill and training from the practicing surgeons. Because the lobotomy appeared to effectively alter the mental health of patients, great effort was invested into developing a more practical procedure with similar desired results.
To the satisfaction of his peers and the mental health community, Walter J. Freeman developed the trans- orbital lobotomy. This new medical procedure could be performed quickly and required limited after- care for the patient. The procedure was performed as follows:
-To induce sedation, inflict two quick shocks to the head.Freeman and the trans-orbital lobotomy stirred up harsh criticism from those who learned of his flamboyant methodology. Due to the number of complications and deaths that resulted from the procedure, it was referred to as “psychic mercy killing” and “euthanasia of the mind.” This was by far mental health care’s darkest hour.
-Roll back one of the patients’ eyelids.
-Insert a device, 2/3 the size of a pencil, through the upper eyelid into the patients’ head.
-Guided by the markings indicating depth, tap the device with a hammer into the patients’ head/ frontal lobe.
-After the appropriate depth is achieved, manipulate the device back and forth in a swiping motion within the patient’s head.
Articles patients being mistreated
NZ Herald
June 21 2004
Abuse complaints 'should be believed'
by Martin Johnston
Former mental hospital Kingseat is one of the institutions where abuse has been alleged.
June 21 2004
Abuse complaints 'should be believed'
by Martin Johnston
Former mental hospital Kingseat is one of the institutions where abuse has been alleged.
He said a nurse punched a brain-damaged young man who yelled in pain when the nurse shaved him with a blunt blade razor. It appeared the nurse used this razor, rather than the electric one preferred by the patient, to provoke a reaction.
"The purpose of this violence seemed to be the pleasure of the nurse inflicting it," Mr Ralls said. He reported it and was told it was under control, but he saw it happen again.
Inquiries galore
Inquiries galore
* More than 16 inquiries were held into Auckland mental hospitals between 1971 and the landmark 1988 Mason Report.
* Investigators repeatedly lamented the failure of the then-Auckland Hospital Board to improve treatment and staff numbers at Oakley.
* The 1983 Gallen Report on Oakley gave credence to at least one claim of assault by staff, but found none passed the criminal-court test of proof beyond reasonable doubt.
* The report also criticised the overuse of drugs and solitary confinement.
Isolation
This is where isolation occurs with them but our society does make it so that they won’t feel isolation, but help them build a community that best fits the person (self-help groups) where the people accepted their stigma. We help them build a community that best fits the person (self-help groups) the people who accepted their stigma. “Then there are the huddle-together , self-help clubs formed by the divorced, the age , the obese, the physically handicapped, the ileostomied and colostomied . There are residential clubs, voluntary to varying degrees, formed for the ex-alcoholic and the ex-addict (.pg22). Stigma is something that everyone feels, but there a those with a particular stigma, those who are given the stigma make the self-helps groups and create the word “we” or “our people” . Those who find the stigma they feel tend to be self-cautions and form a comfort zone where it’s not just a group of people that involves them but people they can build a similar relation with.
One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest By Ken Kesey
Précis: This book is about a patient name Mcmurphy and his life in the mental institution, he actually thought that will be better than going to jail. After a couple days in the mental hospital, he realized going to jail would have been better. In this book he experience, having friends he never thought of and living a life that was unexpected.
Published: 1987
1 “.It’s still hard for me to have clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen”(pg18) The reason why I like this quote, because it explains that the nurse can't define him because they don’t know his real life situation. What happened in his life should not define him as a mental person.
2. McMurphy tells Harding that the meeting was a “pecking party”—the men acted like a bunch of chickens pecking at another chicken’s wound. He warns them that a pecking party can wipe out the whole flock( 35) The reason why I like this quote, is because this explains that in the mental hospital they treat the patients as though they got problems instead of helping them it becomes a" pecking party" the people with all the problems and the nurses are not help because they are in the movement of treating them not "normal"
3. “They are tall and sharp and bony and their faces are chipped into expressions that never change, like flint arrowheads. Their eyes come to points. If you brush against their hair it rasps the hide right off you” (32) I think this quote means that, the nurses walk around with no emotion and makes the patient feel scared instead having a comforting nurse it becomes uncomfortable and scary for them.
This makes it difficult to continue what is best for this person. Or how can we shape the society into making an individual feel “normal” in their life, which im not sure is possible because in these institutions they make patients feel scared and not wanted. They drug and brain wash their minds, the patients “peck” and the nurses create the discomfort and let patients feel not “normal”
http://www.toddlertime.com/advocacy/hospitals/Asylum/history-asylum.htm
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/7556020/
http://www.mcrh.org/Teen-Health/61132.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/nyregion/02hosp.html
Thursday, January 6, 2011
HW 29 - Reading and noting basic materials
- Facing Terminal Illness – Tuesdays, My Brother, Beth
- Isolation – hospitalization, old folks’ homes, Stigma
- Paying for medical care – historically and now – Sicko, Sick, Landmark, Beth,
- The process of dying – Near-Death, Beth, A Time For Dying
- Being sick – Family interviews, own experience.
Facing Terminal Illness – Tuesdays, My Brother, Beth
Tuesdays with Morrie:
Morrie faced the illness of ALS Which parts of your body will begin to shut down slowly. Morrie lived a happy man and spent his Tuesdays with one of students until his death. While they met every tuesdays Mitch will have meaning full conversations. Each Tuesday was a lesson to be learned and spiritual growth between Morrie and Mitch. Meeting each tuesdays the bond between the student and the teacher became became closer. Morrie illness made him a stronger person, people didn't give up on Morrie and Morrie didn't give up on himself. Morrie wrote letters to people he never knew and still he made an important impact on them. "But Giving to other people is what makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what look like in the mirror. When I give time, when I can make someone smile after they were seeing sad, it’s as close to healthy as I ever feel”(pg.128) This quote explains, Morrie personality through the whole book ,Morrie learned through his sickness and brought people closer to him. Even though each day was getting harder for him, he continued things he enjoyed with himself and other people.
Beth :
It surprised me when Beth mentioned her husband was about 90 pounds, when he died. The reason why it did is because it’s a difference between 200 and 90 pounds, she mentioned he died like a vegetable, I pictured once a healthy man and now just skin and bone. Not only this person it still breathing, but they are living through whats almost then end of their life being. I think whats important between relationships is to not give up on one another. There's one things between treating somebody like there dead and treating them like they are still important to you. This is where people start to believe and say "things will get better" I don't think people should pretend if a person is sick to pretend they will get better. But when someone is sick it’s better to give positive energy and then your grief. This what Beth did. In our society, we try to make things work out best for the person that is sick, by going to the hospital. Which can help, but there’s also something missing, which is faith and knowing will the person we care for die in a peace full death. This is where I believe spirituality grows and it’s important to have support for in ourselves. It’s like feeling pain for the person and yourself, but you want to stay strong so you look for messages that can help you. This is where Beth talking about when she went to a Buddhist, I guess to feel support for her ? She talked about how the Buddhist told her he would stop talking, and he would push away his arms in the air as though he knew he was going to die pretty soon. This happened to her husband. I would say I would so the same, to look for a message to help my spirit lift, so that my weakness don’t overcome me. Looking for medical help, and taking a person to the hospital when they are near death can only be more painful to process because is not intimate , especially in the hospital because people die in the hospital everyday and they don't care about what connection you had with the person that is sick . Where if it was in your home and the person dies , it will be more memorable and safe to deal with.
Mom (Bienvenida) :
Bienvenida : I know that dieng is natural, and I will die later on in life. I'm not scared to die but I just want to live a long life, and not die soon like many other people I know. I believe that dieing comes from a person being sick or it just being natural. When my mother died, I was sad and cried but I can say that she lived for many years and she lived the life that she wanted. She was a happy women with all her kids that she rasied well. When someone dies I understand and at times its random , but theres nothing you can do to bring the person back. But you can hold on to good memories. When I was child, my mother would make the best sweet potato soup when one of us were sick but we all enjoyed it even if we weren't. She will also give us homemade tea which she made from leaves from our orange and mango tree we had in the backyard.
This is what my mother said about dieing and illness, when some one in the family got really sick my grandmother would take them to the hospital, but other then that they became well with homemade soup and tea.
Si Leticia la muerte es natural pero alguien puede vivir para mucho tempio.
From the Guest speaker Beth and my mother, I can say they believe on natural deaths and not much of medical. It should be more about the family being around then a whole bunch of strangers in the hospital that dont know you as a perosn. This I respect, I respect this way because its more about the people you know and the energy they give to you. I rather be treated well with my family, where I feel safe than to be in a hospital where there are sick people and in/outcomers everyday. This can be something where the family grow as a whole than, just a doctors and nurses comming to the person not knowing them. I understand that doctors treat patient everyday and be as nice as possible but this does not meet the patinets desire of being care for. I say this because if the doctor only vistes when he can, this only applies to his schuelde not the patinets, nurses are only told to help you if they are required too not if they want too. Which makes it hard for the patient and the doctor to have an intimate time. People hold on to things that makes them feel good, important and safe. This can happen between close friends and family... not so much on a doctor.
Beth :
It surprised me when Beth mentioned her husband was about 90 pounds, when he died. The reason why it did is because it’s a difference between 200 and 90 pounds, she mentioned he died like a vegetable, I pictured once a healthy man and now just skin and bone. Not only this person it still breathing, but they are living through whats almost then end of their life being. I think whats important between relationships is to not give up on one another. There's one things between treating somebody like there dead and treating them like they are still important to you. This is where people start to believe and say "things will get better" I don't think people should pretend if a person is sick to pretend they will get better. But when someone is sick it’s better to give positive energy and then your grief. This what Beth did. In our society, we try to make things work out best for the person that is sick, by going to the hospital. Which can help, but there’s also something missing, which is faith and knowing will the person we care for die in a peace full death. This is where I believe spirituality grows and it’s important to have support for in ourselves. It’s like feeling pain for the person and yourself, but you want to stay strong so you look for messages that can help you. This is where Beth talking about when she went to a Buddhist, I guess to feel support for her ? She talked about how the Buddhist told her he would stop talking, and he would push away his arms in the air as though he knew he was going to die pretty soon. This happened to her husband. I would say I would so the same, to look for a message to help my spirit lift, so that my weakness don’t overcome me. Looking for medical help, and taking a person to the hospital when they are near death can only be more painful to process because is not intimate , especially in the hospital because people die in the hospital everyday and they don't care about what connection you had with the person that is sick . Where if it was in your home and the person dies , it will be more memorable and safe to deal with.
Mom (Bienvenida) :
Bienvenida : I know that dieng is natural, and I will die later on in life. I'm not scared to die but I just want to live a long life, and not die soon like many other people I know. I believe that dieing comes from a person being sick or it just being natural. When my mother died, I was sad and cried but I can say that she lived for many years and she lived the life that she wanted. She was a happy women with all her kids that she rasied well. When someone dies I understand and at times its random , but theres nothing you can do to bring the person back. But you can hold on to good memories. When I was child, my mother would make the best sweet potato soup when one of us were sick but we all enjoyed it even if we weren't. She will also give us homemade tea which she made from leaves from our orange and mango tree we had in the backyard.
This is what my mother said about dieing and illness, when some one in the family got really sick my grandmother would take them to the hospital, but other then that they became well with homemade soup and tea.
Si Leticia la muerte es natural pero alguien puede vivir para mucho tempio.
From the Guest speaker Beth and my mother, I can say they believe on natural deaths and not much of medical. It should be more about the family being around then a whole bunch of strangers in the hospital that dont know you as a perosn. This I respect, I respect this way because its more about the people you know and the energy they give to you. I rather be treated well with my family, where I feel safe than to be in a hospital where there are sick people and in/outcomers everyday. This can be something where the family grow as a whole than, just a doctors and nurses comming to the person not knowing them. I understand that doctors treat patient everyday and be as nice as possible but this does not meet the patinets desire of being care for. I say this because if the doctor only vistes when he can, this only applies to his schuelde not the patinets, nurses are only told to help you if they are required too not if they want too. Which makes it hard for the patient and the doctor to have an intimate time. People hold on to things that makes them feel good, important and safe. This can happen between close friends and family... not so much on a doctor.
Isolation – hospitalization, old folks’ homes, Stigma
In our society, we categorizes people to what we think is not "normal", this makes the person that feels stigma, feel not connected and lost into a world where people just feel bad for them and this leaves them to a confusion. The people who are stigmata will make groups to feel just because they are different does not mean they are not people like them. " Thus in the stigmatized arises the sense of not knowing what others present are " really" thinking about him. Further ,during mixed contacts , the stigmatized individual is likely to feel that he is "on," having to be self-conscious and calculating about the impression he is making to a degree and in areas of conduct which he assumes other are not" pg 14 (Stigma and social identity) This make it difficult for them to go through their daily life and feel undermined, their stigma will carry on into their life. People should not have to deal with how makes a normal person, but then again we gain and lose from these vaules that our scoiety gives to us. This does not make it okay, but how else our world will be? we create things that can work for other people but the stigmatized individual can be also attempt to correct his/ her condtion by doing something that is normal to the society. This is can help the person with his or her scocial identity .
How can we fix this problem?.. This is a difficult thing to do , the one that seems "normal" can't seem to figure out if they are being too nice or showing not enough sympathy. This causes discomfort, what if the person does need help everyday throughout their life ,do we feel bad? or continue process of helping them. If we were to help the person that has the stigma they will feel "needy" and makes them not want the help they really need. The person that as the stigma is aware of whats going on, and the people that help are aware... So what does this awareness conclude? people feeling uncertainty and denial. We treat them as though they a "normal" but they still feel different. " we may feel that if we show direct sympathetic concern for his condition, we may be overstepping ourselves; and yet if we actually forget that he has a failing we are likely to make impossible demands of him or unthinkingly slight for his fellow-sufferers. Each potential source of discomfort for him when we are with him can become something we sense he is aware of, aware that we are aware of" pg18.(stigma and social identity). This awareness, can make an adjustment to the person wether this means treating him as someone better than we feel he/she might be or someone worse than we feel he/she probably is. Which makes it difficult to continue what is best for this person. Or how can we shape the soceity into making an individual feel not stigmatized in their life, which im not sure is possible for everybody is too different and the same...
This is where isolation occurs with themselves but our society does make it so that they won’t feel isolation, but help them build a community that best fits the person (self-help groups) where the people accepted their stigma. We help them build a community that best fits the person (self-help groups) the people who accepted their stigma. “ Then there are the huddle-together , self-help clubs formed by the divorced, the age , the obese, the physically handicapped, the ileostomied and colostomied . There are residential clubs, voluntary to varying degrees, formed for the ex-alcoholic and the ex-addict(.pg22). Stigma is something that everyone feels , but there a those with a particular stigma, those who are given the stigma make the self-helps groups and create the word “we” or “our people” . Those who find the stigma they feel tend to be self cautions and form a comfort zone where it’s not just a group of people that involves them but people they can build a similar relation with.
Monday, January 3, 2011
HW 28 - Comments 2
You are not in my class but no one in my group did their homework.
So I looked at yours because it says you are a good model and you are in the green roof group.
What I enjoyed reading about your post was how detailed you were describing how your friend look when she was sick. “Her throat is swollen at both sides her glands press through like someone punching out ward from inside her neck. Her breath stinks of rot and medicine. Her hair is a mess, she’s sweating constantly." The way you wrote this part as though it was from a book or a movie, you can tell this a was present. This made me want to read more about your friend.
So I looked at yours because it says you are a good model and you are in the green roof group.
What I enjoyed reading about your post was how detailed you were describing how your friend look when she was sick. “Her throat is swollen at both sides her glands press through like someone punching out ward from inside her neck. Her breath stinks of rot and medicine. Her hair is a mess, she’s sweating constantly." The way you wrote this part as though it was from a book or a movie, you can tell this a was present. This made me want to read more about your friend.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
HW 27 - Visiting an unwell person
For this homework I did not go to the Hospital nor did I want to, I only know one person that is sick, my mother.
My mother was in the hospital before the break, she was there for about a day, but she was constantly going to doctor’s apportionments. My mother was sick before she even noticed; it first turned into a really bad cough, when I started noticing that it didn't sound just like a cold but something serious. My mother does not like to tell my sister or me what’s the real deal with her. When I found out why my mother is sick, she said as though I shouldn't have to worry. It turns out there were two lumps on her breast (scary) this is something I did not know about until it got pretty serious and she had to let my sister and I know. I found out in the end of November, but it wasn't clicking in my head that my mother might have cancer, and I did not want to think about (Denial). While all of this is happening, it had to happen during the sick and dying unit (weird). I never seen my mother this sick, but I did noticed she was losing a lot of weight ,even though she does have the Lap -Band for about 3 years . This controls the amount of food that goes into her mouth, but if she puts too much the food just goes back up. Sometimes they tighten so that she can't eat, only liquids. This is something I did not agree on, I did not want my mother to get the Lap-Band because I felt that was not a safe way to lose weight. She did not listen; the doctors convened her to get it, now she does not have a serious case of diabetes. As this "cold" goes by my mother was looking sick, I kept asking what was wrong but she wouldn't say. I thought about when our guess speaker Beth spoke about her husband losing weight, and making excuses for how they were feeling inside.
An illness of one person can change the whole vibe in the family; this is something I did not think about. This is where the family will visit and call more often than usual. When I think of my uncles or my aunts and my mother, I want them to age beautifully and nothing to be wrong with them but to die of old age. I want this to be for generations, I hate the fact my mother is sick and so is my aunt. This makes me question, how do we really keep our body healthy? Will our body will be ever just be healthy? I don’t know if this is possible anymore. Why did my mother get sick? Was it because she not taking care of herself and over working? Was it her fault? Who fault is it? I guess a person knows when they are getting sick but they will do anything to cover it until it does not work anymore.
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