I was thinking. When we’ve got a lot of emotion in us, the last thing we need is to be spoken to like we’re sick. We need someone who knows where we’re at and dig us out of there. I think delusions are just incorrect thinking coupled with strong emotions. It should be the psychiatrist’s job to bring us to a place of correct thinking and have the capacity to provide a space for emotions to be expressed, accepted and TRANSFORMED. I don’t believe they can do that by asking questions from a chair. We need something real. Our sense of community and safety gets lost in a psychosis. I don’t want to hear that I’m sick, I want to know how I belong. If it takes everyone to get up and dance or beat a drum, so ■■■■■■■ be it.
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What’s your suggestion then?
essentially, dance and beat a drum haha. Something which utilises the spirit, moves energy, allows us to transform.
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Aaaah that wouldn’t work for me. My delusions are accompanied by intense emotion, too, but the idea of dancing and drumming them out seems very unhelpful. Talking them out helps me get a grip on them, though, so I can slowly climb out of them.
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i reckon that the delusions in the mind can be dealt with by talking with sensible people and the emotions creatively and through crying, purging. I just think dance in a group setting and singing is very effective at interrupting thinking and produces positive emotions so it is a method for keeping afloat once the bite has been taken out. If it was more common place in society I would say that the negativity wouldn’t have crept into our psyche to begin with.
If it works for you, awesome. Definitely not suggesting that it doesn’t or wouldn’t. Just that you presented it in kind of a one-size-fits-all manner, and I suspect there are plenty of people it wouldn’t fit at all, myself being one of them.
Hi.
I know what you mean.
What strikes me is how many resourceful people are in here. So resourceful that we really don´t need to be treated otherwise.
I got a place with a psychiatrist who is also a psychoanalysis. Before, I have had psychiatrists based in institutions. They always treated me like I was made of the finest bone china, ready to crack at any minute. There was really no need, I have luckily never needed to be admitted.
But this new guy, treats me like a person who just really wants to control my symptoms and get out to work as soon as possible. What a big difference.
It´s bad enough living with dellusions, and everything else that follows with this illness. What helps is the relationship with a psychiatrist who sees that you have a lot to offer as part of a workforce, and that you really just want to get better.
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Good. I think the therapeutic value of work exceeded that of talk therapy for me.
But to @lolaby’s point, there is also value to art, theatre, singing, dance, etc. From a neuroplasticity stand point, learning to solve problems and artistic training coupled with medication and talk therapy seemed to work in concert to help rewrite my brain and route around the issues. Or that’s my latest theory.
Either way, if you can tolerate it, I don’t think it can hurt. But I would do it as an augment to other therapies. To me the more ways to stimulate the brain to repair itself the better.
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Been working for me just fine. I don’t want a psychiatrist or anyone else touching me. I hate people touching me. Only Mrs. Pixel gets a free pass on that.
I wouldn’t want it as part of my psych appointments, but I would totally go to one of those Beltane Fire Festivals and get down if I had the chance.
my Pdoc and I go to all sorts of places, not just the office, for my sessions. My last scheduled appointment, we went to a local wild life park, it was great.
Before that we went to a museum that displayed art my mentally ill people.
My Pdoc is great, she doesn’t just treat me like a patient she treats me like a person.
If more Pdocs and Therapists employed the ‘outside’ concept to treatment, I think a lot of people would really benefit.
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