Tuesday, July 06, 2004
~ Lessons learnt from mental health module... ~
9:37:00 pm
Had our first lesson on mental health today... Well, Mr Bernard Lian, our lecturer, spoke quite a few things to us about this module and the tough challenges that we might face when nursing these patients when we go out for attachment at IMH...
First thing he said was, the patients look normally just like you and me... But they are not crazy... I used to be biased before i joined nursing and called such people 'crazy'... But they're not... They are just mentally ill... Why? Nobody knows why... There's no hard facts to tell why a person has mental illness... It's quite a pitiful thing... Esp if their family members refuse to acknowledge them... But dun think that such thing will not happen to you... Can you predict what will happen in 5 years' time?
The second thing that which really knocked me hard on the head was...
"What would you do if you had the most nasty, disgusting thing in your mouth? You would spit it out right? And what if you're holding something heavy and hot? Drop it... So why can't you get rid of all the jealously, hatred, bad emotions in yourself? You could be happy just like before..." Well, this isn't really what he exactly said but it was something close... But the main thing is the points... I know at times, I still live in the past... Hating myself for knowing such a person and make myself being deceived... But what's the point? What's the point of hating, being angry? Will it make any good use to me? NO!! It will not... Therefore, he said again that you should learn to let go, forgive but you can never forget... Which is so true... I'm trying to be as positive as I can be... I have forgived, I have let go but for one thing, I can never forget it no matter what...
I'm sure I'm going to learn more life lessons from this module... It's gonna teach me to be a better person, I hope...
written, NaDiaH eRNiYaNTi
