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When i step into the MMHA i really can't differentiate who are actually clients and who are actually are the staffs. most of them are look normal. one of the clients shared his experience to us, i find that he was good in study and had a bank and finance degree. unfortunately he has social phobia. Nonetheless, i apply my counseling skill to encourage him. honestly, his smile really touch me. And i am quite surprise when i see one of the clients of the MMHA who is driving car by himself to MMHA! this had proof that they can function normal in their life but they just need more caring and understanding from us.
ReplyDeleteThey all just like normal people,like chiayun said,really cant differentiate who is actually client.They need others to listen to them,care about them, and try to understand things from their perspectives.They can actually recover from these illness and back to normal life.MMHA is a good place for them to rehabilitate.One of the client said he actually had improved and feel better on his social phobia after he joined MMHA.He became more outgoing than before,not feel afraid to go out from his house.
ReplyDeleteThe clients are just like normal people and really cant recognize that they are suffering from mental illness.They need others to care about them,listen to them,and understanding things from their perspectives.MMHA is a good place for them to rehabilitate.One of the client said he actually had improved and feel better from his social phobia,he become more outgoing than before,not feel afraid to go out from home after joining MMHA.
ReplyDeleteBefore went to MMHA, I though patients with mental health look different with us and it is easy to differenciate them between us and them. However, MMHA shows me that their patients are able to have a normal life like us like me and you. Even some of them still trying to get a job so that they can get income to survive. Although we are in the same world but what we faced and thier faced in life is totally not the same.They show me they are so tough than me in life. This is because every of them have thier own story behind. Story which is so pathetic, sadness and sorrowness. 1 of the patient there told me about her story. She was so hate her father and yet so guilt to him too. The feelings was so complicated in her during her past. Furtunately, certain diagnostic apply on her and help her get rid from it. MMHA does not spon feed them but teach them how to survive in our social and learn to cope with us.
ReplyDeleteIn the first day we went to MMHA, I realized that those patients with mental health looks as normal as all of us. It's quite difficult to differentiate them as they are trying to learn to have a better life every day just as us. They coped their life with their friends in MMHA, they learn cooking, painting even dancing. It's a best place for them to guide them survive in our society in the future. One of the patients shared with me about her stories. Although she had depression for 5 years and still taking medication till now, she feel hard to forget her deepest unhappiness, it's hurt but she is optimistic and trying to cope with herself in her daily life. She smile to me and told me "I'm happy now", I realized that: We are fortunate enough.
ReplyDeleteFor me, MMHA is an organization that place the people with mental damage and it is a place that for them to recover. when i go for the first time, i really very surprise that the staff there really take care the client with pure heart.it is very needed to those people to learn about it. i am one of four members that choose to help the staff in kitchen.and i learn a lot inside there. healthy meal is one of the important things for the clients. the works of the the kitchen staff, they also must get the respected by others.
ReplyDeleteDuring the first visitation to MMHA, i didnt meet any of client there bcoz i was late on that day. And when i first step into MMHA for the 2nd visitation,i saw that all my classmates were standing or sitting at 1 corner and the clients were at the other side. i felt that they are affraid of us, maybe that is bcoz we are strangers to them, they felt like being watched by others and they felt unsafe for that. From that, i think that they are easily affected by the environment although they look juz like a normal person.
ReplyDeleteEvery morning, the client have to do exercise together before they start any activity. i think tatz good because the mind is always associated with the body. A healthy body bring us a healthy mind.During the exercise session, i was trying to differenciate which is the client and which is the staff in MMHA because the clients do not come all at the same time. But, i failed! It is really difficult to differenciate them by appearance. There is a girl who look normal and talk like a normal person actually suffered from schizophrenia. She took medication for about 10years. She told us that some of the client who always look tired and feckless due to the medication.They have to keep switching the medicine in order to get 1 that suitable to them.
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ReplyDeleteThis is so sad because it sounds like they are testing the medicine until they found 1 that suitable to them.
ReplyDeleteBefore we end the visitation, all of us were divided into small groups to tok with the clients there. In my group, there is a boy who born with chromosome abnormalities told me that he always being bullied by his classmates in school. His father passed away when he stil in his secondary school and from that day onwards he started to hear voices. He got frightened because the voices keep telling him that the food got poison and warn him not to eat anything.
Imagine, he dun dare to eat anything for 3days. Although the voices do not exist in the sense that we, as a normal person, we can't hear it. But for them, they really hear the voice but no one will understand how scare are they.
ReplyDeleteFrom the patient (female) i talk with, she told me that she was being tortured in all of the previous center she was being, for example the workers there do not allow the patients to wear anything, cannot sleep or lie down even they are tired and must walk around or else the worker there will splash water on them, over 100 ppl sharing one toothpaste a day. I was.. = =" Omg wtf?! How can they treat a patient like that??
ReplyDeletePeople with mental illness can function almost as well as normal people. Mental illness can be controlled by medicine while the illness can be worsen by the negative perception from others towards the patients. Mental illness patients need more love to stay strong and overcome their low self esteem.
before go to MMHA, i though the patient with mental health can be easy been recognize. but when first step in, found that they are just like normal people around. they can talk to u and play with u. u cant even really see what are their problem. this may because they are on the way of recovery. it may because of they are acting to avoid other people know abt them. some of them able to tell u what are their problem and what they need to improve. feels that MMHA really help them to know more abt themselves and know which way they should improve. even they know about thing and way to improve, some of them just easily forget it after they say abt it. they need people around to remind them again and again.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, MMHA is like a shelter, a shelter for people who are in need for help. Normally, people who are suffering from mental health problem are unable to be easily detected, unless the thinking and behavior that trigger by the mental health problem are extremely maladaptive that lead to the attention of others. Everyone are susceptible to become the victims of mental health problem, in which our society may play an significant role to some certain extent.It is important to note that, without the proper treatment that provided by mental health profession, detrimental effect can happen to mental health patients. The condition of the patients may even get worse, and end up become incurable or just able to cure to some certain extent. Majority of mental health patients unable to be self-helping, they are the people who are extremely in need for help. MMHA try its best to help those patients to have an opportunity to function and contribute to society therefore lead a normal life.
ReplyDeleteEmmm..MMHA is the first mental health organization that i went and it also first place i meet mental health patients.On the first day before i step in to MMHA, i thought the place must be very serious because the people at there who had mental health problem.But most of the thoughts came to my mind at the moment was wrong,they did not look weird,and their behaviour is normal,it maybe abit slow and unknown.After the second visitation,i had spend some times with them and also take part in the daily activity,i feel it is v relax to be with them and it really a very good experience.MMHA really done a very good job in helping them,the worker at there is really v caring and patient.If asking me what i feel From MMHA,i will tell u "choose a time and have a visit,then u will get the feeling more than i typing it out at here"
ReplyDeletefrom wht i see mmha is a place whr those who cant find a place in society to rehabilitate. they where not accepted my most people in society, thye could work in society, even their families feel the stress. so whn they come they learn to work, learn to take care of themselves.
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