Just asks me a list of questions like are you safe, have you been abused, rate your overall health etc. I only spend 10-20 minutes with her. My last peer spent an hour with me. And she didn’t just ask questions off a list. We actually talked about life.
Anyway, it’s not helping me much and I feel like it’s none of her business. Why does she need those questions answered. I’m getting really uncomfortable with answering the questions.
Help cuts both ways.
What is meant to be helpful is sometimes hurtful.
As a cub scout, we were taught to look for ways to help. But sometimes that elderly person doesn’t want my help to cross the street.
I think she is trying to help, but I think you don’t feel comfortable to answer her questions because you don’t have a close enough relationship with her. Is that right?
Yes. I don’t know her at all. We only talk for 10 to 20 minutes once per month and it’s all assessment type questions
Funny you should say. Got a call today from one of my peer group people, and she was obviously asking questions from a form, she called it a “wellness check”. Pointless.
If you don’t feel comfortable you can say you’re not comfortable talking about those things yet. If she don’t know she’ll keep asking…
I wouldn’t cooperate with that and ask what her experience in psychiatry was. She’s a peer support specialist after all.
It sounds like questions her employers want her to ask. I don’t know.
Sounds very much like my pdocs questions, no counselling involved whatsoever. Very cold
My peer calls it an assessment. But my thing is, why am I being assessed by a peer? It’s so crazy
is peer support same like i have mobile team guy? He takes me out once a month for a walk and monday now coming he gonna take me out for a little trip to some old small town close by. We will have a walk and have a drink at the little cafe there.
Mobile team guy is like somebody that tries to keep you out of the mental ward… they help you when you get out of the psych ward so that you don’t have to go back hopefully.
A peer support is a ‘ervaringsdeskundige’. Someone who has lived experience in psychiatry.
ah yea they came to the ward sometimes when i was in it still and they gave classes. Thanks for explaining @Jonathan2
Yes, that’s what a peer does, except now it’s over the phone due to covid
Maybe they think your unstable from something you said. I told my doctors all about my delusions and no one looked at me twice. Mine must be used to hearing crazy ish
I suppose that could be it. Next time, I’ll try to remember to ask
What did you tell your doctors recently?
The same things I’ve been saying at every appointment for years. I’m still being followed and recorded