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 Gudrun
Gudrun club
Oh dear, that looks like serious stuff:-) I have been trying to reduce the number of my books but I end up rereading them and keeping nearly all of them;-)
8 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Gudrun club
Oh, I know what you mean! I have a terrible time getting rid of them, so I usually just move them around. (Psychology used to be my career, but I have no desire to look inside that book anymore.)
8 years ago.
Gudrun club has replied to Diane Putnam club
I can imagine! It's not a career where you work 9-5 (my sister is a psychologist in a psychosomatic clinic)
8 years ago. Edited 8 years ago.
 Léopold
Léopold club
Psy moment in upside down orange mood.
8 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Léopold club
"Be Orange" is an entertaining idea, right?
8 years ago.
Léopold club has replied to Diane Putnam club
Like all of your brilliant ideas I would state Diane.
8 years ago.
 Steve Bucknell
Steve Bucknell club
What on earth is a "psychosomatic clinic" !?
8 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Steve Bucknell club
That would refer to physical ailments that are linked to mental disorders, such as those with a lot of anxiety being prone to stomach pain that can't be explained by a medical problem. They can be very hard to treat, because so many of these people are in denial and go from doctor to doctor and test to test looking for a purely medical diagnosis. patient.info/health/psychosomatic-disorders I have a cousin who does this. I find her maddening! ; \

I assume the above would be similar in Germany, UK, etc.
8 years ago. Edited 8 years ago.
Gudrun club has replied to Diane Putnam club
You get mobbing victims, burnout cases, people with agorophobia etc.... In Germany they often also treat people with chronic pain.
8 years ago.
Steve Bucknell club has replied to Gudrun club
I've nursed many people with psychsomatic disorders, a wonderfully frustrating phenomenon, as you say, but I'm incredulous that anyone with such a disorder would go anywhere near a clinic that was named as such. I found that a core belief of 90% of psychosomatic disorders was that they had been misdiagnosed and that the medics simply hadn't found the underlying cause. As you say, this belief leads them endlessly to seek medical confirmation. I suppose the clinic might be a good place for those already on the way to recovery who have admitted to themselves that such a thing as psychomsomatic disorders might exist....But I did work with people with very long-standing mental health problems, so my perspective is probably a bit skewed! Apologies, Diane, I wasn't qite serious...I can hear you groaning!
8 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Gudrun club
It sounds like you use the term psychosomatic a little differently than we do. But, chronic pain would certainly be in the same category as ours. Docs are very reluctant to prescribe narcotic type pain meds, anymore, because there is so much addiction to them. So, they're referred to pain management clinics, which combine counseling and things like meditation.
8 years ago. Edited 8 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Steve Bucknell club
Not groaning! You're absolutely right about the avoidance of treatment. Those kinds of people are very insulted if their medical doctor refers them for MH treatment. They either don't show up or don't last long in treatment. My clients were also chronically mentally ill (schizophrenics and such), not so much the "worried well." It was a county clinic, so we didn't have many of the latter type. I would have gone nuts myself in a private practice, falling asleep listening to "worries." I prefer the severely mentally ill, by far, who are often quite courageous and interesting - if difficult.
8 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has added
True story: one of my schizophrenic clients burned down the main MH office after being released from jail in the middle of the night. He was arrested again and I had to go see him in jail. He said, "Oh, hi! I see you're on the wrong side of the law again!"

I said, "Uh, no, YOU are!"

"Oh. That's right..."

I had to hold in my laughter until I got to my car.
8 years ago.

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