I've now spent 3 days in the psych hospital and... well I sort of feel like a patient. No I'm not crazy, well maybe a little - I think you have to be a little nuts to voluntarily subject yourself to medical school.
Anyways...I feel like a patient, because my day is structured very similar to theirs.
In the morning I go in and talk with a few patients and then do some paper work or have a report from the nurses on how the patients are doing. Then at 10 am we have group. Groups is a time when most of the patients get together with the counselors and have some activity planned. I attended and participated as well (my participation is not as in depth as the patients, we are here to discuss and work through their issues, not mine). Then I busy myself with reading, etc until lunch. After lunch, group therapy. Off I go. I missed the later afternoon group because we were rounding today. Of course that was the coolest group session of all --> PET THERAPY! That's when a dog comes into visit the patients.
Just like the patients I busy myself until group and then off I go to participate. The only difference is I get to hang out behind the nurses desk and I have a key that lets me out of the building at the end of the day.
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