tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489009971732520747.post9039569193528624527..comments2024-03-24T07:19:28.136+00:00Comments on Lake Cocytus: NuisanceThe Shrinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10009039342346247138noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489009971732520747.post-78725421445395046492008-07-23T16:04:00.000+01:002008-07-23T16:04:00.000+01:00I keep coming back to this one as it's hit a nerve...I keep coming back to this one as it's hit a nerve. <BR/><BR/>Maybe I'm just an example of extreme badness, but as the carer of an adult withing "the system" who really tries to be a good carer and do what I'm told by the professionals, but who rows with them periodically and has a sneaking suspicion that at least 1/2 of them blame me for my relatives illness, I can't help but sympathise with the relatives just a little bit. <BR/><BR/>When this lady was in her 50s I expect she was carted off to the local hospital at regular intervals. Professionals will have told her relatives that it was for her own good, and even if they were unsure they obeyed the professionals and let her go in. Now, just because fashions have changed in psychiatry, new, younger professionals are telling them that on no account should she go anywhere near a hospital and what's more are accusing them of badness for even suggesting it. <BR/><BR/>Maybe they are abrogating their responsibilities to care for their lonely relative because they are selfish @@@@s, but maybe they are tired, and getting older themselves, and don't understand what's going on with her care.Fiona Marcellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07985022521354870620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489009971732520747.post-68890453603262095302008-07-17T00:35:00.000+01:002008-07-17T00:35:00.000+01:00much badness indeed.much badness indeed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489009971732520747.post-45094767737217427182008-07-16T19:17:00.000+01:002008-07-16T19:17:00.000+01:00Hey Shrink! Have you read this?Antipsychotics for ...Hey Shrink! Have you read this?<BR/><BR/>Antipsychotics for people with dementia <BR/>John O'Brien <BR/>BMJ 2008;337:a602 (Published 9 July 2008) <BR/><BR/>I read it and thought of you immediately. I'd be interested to hear what you think of this man's opinion.XEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02522455400636588309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489009971732520747.post-54037977764877530592008-07-15T20:45:00.000+01:002008-07-15T20:45:00.000+01:00are you SURE she's only phoning once a day? I know...are you SURE she's only phoning once a day? I know many (not, I hasten to add, my own family) who phone 20 times a morning and then 30 more times in the afternoon.<BR/><BR/>If she is only asking for reassurance occasionally then the family's perception of what is for her good needs to be challenged, but given that her history is one of top down intervention by medics, perhaps that's the family's expectation too. If in the past when they have said that she is becoming unwell she has been hospitalised, one can perhaps understand (particularly with all the bad press "care in the community" and the closure of inpatient wards gets) why they might think that this is what she needs now.Fiona Marcellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07985022521354870620noreply@blogger.com