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  • Patient/Professional Divide

    We often talk in terms of us and them. Both users of services and providers of services. Quite often though, we are the same people. I work in a psychiatric hospital - that’s where my office is. Work defines me to a large extent. But I, or people close to me, use the services that [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-18-2008

  • The Horse Man

    It used to be quite straightforward. I was in an assessment team so someone would make a referral to our services - usually the person themselves, or a family member or a GP or district nurse - someone who had reason to understand that care was needed for some reason. Sometimes the referrals came from...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-16-2008

  • Reasons to the Cheerful - Part One

    I had, for one reason or another, a particularly difficult week last week. Partly due to work-related matters and issues - trying to cram in a five day workload into three days with a couple of days out training - partly just stuff happening at home that I wasn’t expecting - nothing particularly...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-15-2008

  • Normality?

    The question of ‘normality’ and what it is  has cropped up again in relation to this weekend’s Bonkerfest. I read about it in The Times at the weekend in an article which explains the ‘Mad Pride’ movement which has made its way over here, unsurprisingly, from the States...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-15-2008

  • Managing stress at work

    I am still constantly learning about coping mechanisms and ways of dealing with stress in the workplace - I would like to think I manage the stresses better now than I used to but its been a slog to get to this point at times. Yesterday morning as I arrived at work a good couple of [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-14-2008
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