tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post3557059566004837995..comments2024-02-26T09:30:54.111-06:00Comments on Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!: What I Learned on the Psych WardFr. Philip Powell, OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-16967456829591337862010-05-01T07:13:11.113-05:002010-05-01T07:13:11.113-05:00Mom, as a staff member, yes. I had a lot of troub...Mom, as a staff member, yes. I had a lot of trouble with the RN's. <br /><br />Two of my best staff members were mothers.Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-14470079197759617152010-05-01T02:28:47.085-05:002010-05-01T02:28:47.085-05:00so I just gotta ask...
would you hire ME??so I just gotta ask...<br /><br />would you hire ME??MightyMomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02563721884001643857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-48930883286217543712010-04-25T18:33:35.791-05:002010-04-25T18:33:35.791-05:00I was working on the computer help desk at the Aus...I was working on the computer help desk at the Austin State Hospital at the time that I converted to Catholicism. Although I didn't normally have patient contact, the very first time I attended an Ash Wednesday Service was with the patients there at the facility. The sounds in the room were what I would expect to hear in purgatory. They understood better than I, who we all are. It was a humbling gift.Big Fanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08606718878014619628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-70228197607045059822010-04-24T22:18:38.875-05:002010-04-24T22:18:38.875-05:00Lamont - Another possibility is that prior to the ...Lamont - Another possibility is that prior to the 60's people just didn't talk about this stuff. I am friends with an 80 year-old former nun. She left the convent because the priests who oversaw the place treated it like their own private brothel. The rapes she suffered weren't the result of anarchy or drugs, or immoral living on her part. And, there were plenty of rules. No anarchy there. I could go on about other families from my very religious, church-going neighborhood where beatings & incest were fairly rampant... I don't think the adults in these cases were ever much into the 60s counter-culture, though they sure did mess their kids up something. And the kids - yeah, they used a lot of drugs. It was the only escape they could find short of leaving home. So, I don't blame them for their "immorality", I cry for some of the places their pain led them. <br /><br />Anyway, this is a little far afield from the very excellent observation that certain categories of institutionalized, mentally ill patients *really* need structure if they are to function at all, even within their confined universe.<br /><br />But, it should be noted, those patients, regardless of age, will always need the type of structure Fr. Philip discusses. Typical adolescents need structure yes, but they also need freedom if they're going to develop their critical faculties. It's a much trickier balance to strike. You can't necessarily do a take-down on your 14-year old, much as you'd like to, because s/he's being impossible.Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07066649158250158018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-57622922879187167772010-04-24T08:30:14.482-05:002010-04-24T08:30:14.482-05:00Very interesting post. I have always believed that...Very interesting post. I have always believed that the explosion in the number of cases of sexual abuse that began in the late 60's was the result of the widespread disregard of sexual morality and the systematic undoing of all the laws governing poronography, adultry, sodomy, etc. Neither celibacy nor homosexuality caused the abuse. People need rules. A society that constantly bends the the rules is a disaster waiting to happen. Anarchy is not pretty.Lamonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17534269474358121464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-60832781796283952010-04-24T06:57:03.546-05:002010-04-24T06:57:03.546-05:00I agree with everything you said here..that was my...I agree with everything you said here..that was my experience when I worked in adolescent psych, too. <br /><br />At the time I worked there, I was a Criminal Justice major...they don't fall under any of your categories, but there were a LOT of us working there. CJ majors, of course, tended to be quite limit-oriented and consistent. And ready to execute a tackle if need be! <br /><br />Much of our "leadership", though, was quite clueless. The ones who were the best supervisors? Regular people who didn't have sociology degrees!Adorohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.com