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Mar 05, 2010, 11:53 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2009
Location: So Cal
Posts: 3,342
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I just wanted to add....that I hope I didn't offend anyone with my post.
In society, there is a definite stigma towards the patients/clients that are institutionalized. Even stigma among staff and patients/clients. Kind of an us versus them mentality. (I know you all are aware of this) I just want you all to know that I don't see myself as different from any of us on PC...and I don't see any of us as different as anyone else out in society. The way I look at it...there is no us and them...just us.
Pretty much every staff member I have gotten a chance to get to know has either been impacted by MI either themselves or they have a family member that has an MI. It's been comforting to see that the nursing staff has the mentality that, as staff, we are no more or less important than the people we care for. We are all people helping people...and there isn't anyone that I have met yet that hasn't held to that same ideal. Albeit, it's only been my first two weeks there so I haven't gotten to meet everyone yet.
I guess I just feel worried that you all will hate me now or feel like I've "gone to the dark side" and am now "one of them". I want you all to know that I am one of them...but we all are, because them is us. No one is any better or worse as far as worth as a person. 
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