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Mar 14, 2025, 04:10 PM
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Humanities - Economics and Civics and Citizenship
What topic could you give a lecture on for an hour with no preparation? |
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#327
Mar 14, 2025, 10:41 PM
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Energy conservation for the sick and elderly
What do you do to keep your hands busy when you feel agitated?
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#328
Mar 15, 2025, 05:36 AM
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Play piano. It can be an imaginary piano too.
Similar Q— what’s your best way to cope with or soothe agitation?
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#329
Mar 16, 2025, 01:05 PM
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grounding...usually with something cold like holding a glass of ice water between my hands, running my hands under cold water. If that's not possible, deep breathing...unbevielably after about 2 decades of trying it off and on again, it finally has gotten to the point where it helps some.
Do you or have you ever sleepwalk(ed)?
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#330
Mar 16, 2025, 01:08 PM
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Yes. Many times both as a kid and an adult. Same Q
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#331
Mar 16, 2025, 05:19 PM
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I don't think I ever have. I think it would be scary if I did.
How do you cope with being hospitalized? Is it always traumatizing, or do you ever get anything out of it?
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#332
Mar 23, 2025, 03:32 AM
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I usually get something out of it, especially if I can get a bed on the far side where I'm not wakened every 30 minutes or whatever it is all night long by the door opening. Where I go has a really good OT who does most of the groups. Other groups are kind of spotty and I wish they did more therapy groups and more art therapy but you can't have everything. I'm fortunate to have a mood disorder unit at my hospital and it's a good place for the most part. Not perfect but good. I've not been in there in 9 years, since I started clozaril. I hope that streak gets much longer.
Have you ever been hospitalized in a mood disorder unit? Did it help you?-
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#333
Mar 25, 2025, 07:28 PM
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Yes and yes. The hospital where my pdoc works has one so when I need IP that's where I go.
What is your favorite therapist you've ever had like?
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#334
Mar 31, 2025, 02:02 PM
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As for "favorite" in a friendly way, I had a therapist, a couple years ago, that was the greatest conversationalist. I truly enjoyed talking to him, but there was little therapy, to be honest. My absolute favorite mental health provider was actually a psychiatrist of 15+ years. I confess that I had/have transference love for the man. I believe there was some countertransference affection, as well. I moved away about four years ago, but I still write him around the holidays.He responds. Question: What was the most helpful advice you ever received from a mental health provider?
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#335
Yesterday, 02:58 PM
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"Do what you can do as you can do it"
What are your favorite and least favorite meds you've taken?
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#336
Yesterday, 04:31 PM
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I'd have to say Seroquel is probably my favorite because it's the med that most consistently helps me sleep and also is the one that's helped with psychosis. My least favorite was Remeron; I only wanted to eat and sleep on it; my weight gain was out of control because I never felt full on it; it was the worst sort of med to prescribe someone with an ED. And of course, I have a love/hate relationship with clonazepam; it helped until it didn't and made me extremely forgetful, so bad I thought I might be getting early onset Alzheimer's, and of course, getting off it was no picnic. And oh, yeah, when I'm prescribed painkillers I do like them a bit too much beyond the painkilling effect
 Same Q.
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