tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502332727845937105.post8110576492088220512..comments2024-03-05T00:35:33.495+01:00Comments on Different Thoughts: Healing Homes. A new film by Daniel MacklerMarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273435151682585281noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502332727845937105.post-86477223555781767662011-06-10T02:38:56.610+02:002011-06-10T02:38:56.610+02:00Hi Anonymous, thanks for your kind words! Blogging...Hi Anonymous, thanks for your kind words! Blogging has been slow for a while, yes, as "real life" got too fast to leave me much time for it. <br /><br />To your question: that's not an easy one. I've had a quick look at your blog tonight -- I will certainly read more as soon as I got the time -- and I see what you mean. You've got a network, but you're not sure whether this network will still be there if you "go public". My own thoughts about possibly losing some of my friends were that I didn't want to be friends with people who would shun me because of a label, anyway. So, you might say, I had nothing to lose. <br /><br />A lot more tricky it becomes, though, when we're talking employment. I wouldn't advise anyone to disclose a past with a psych label, certainly not if the label says "schizophrenia", when they apply for a job. Unless they've had the opportunity of a casual chat with their possible future employer about "mental illness" in general, where s/he turns out to be free of any prejudice.<br /><br />In your situation, ask yourself if you could do without the people among your friends, who might turn their back on you, and also ask yourself if you are ready and willing to take possible "negative" reactions from people in general.Marianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16273435151682585281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502332727845937105.post-42341243094033939312011-06-10T00:11:14.093+02:002011-06-10T00:11:14.093+02:00Hi
I have just found your blog which I find fascin...Hi<br />I have just found your blog which I find fascinating, Marion, although I am disappointed that you haven't posted recently. I hope all is well. I wonder if you would do me the favour of looking at my blog 'Schizophrenia at the Schoolgate' which can be found on Blogspot.<br />I am seeking advice on whether or not to 'go public' with my story and I have a feeling that you might be just the person to help me on this one, if you wouldn't mind doing so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502332727845937105.post-91484033503652087762011-03-21T22:30:50.106+01:002011-03-21T22:30:50.106+01:00thanks for posting this review, Marian. I loved i...thanks for posting this review, Marian. I loved it. wow!<br />with respect, DanielDaniel Macklerhttp://www.iraresoul.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502332727845937105.post-55562053833602891732011-02-23T02:55:37.657+01:002011-02-23T02:55:37.657+01:00Marian,
This looks like a great program.
We need ...Marian,<br /><br />This looks like a great program.<br />We need more of them - around the world!<br /><br />Thank you for posting the information.<br /><br />I hope you're doing well, with your move and new job.<br /><br />Duane <br /><br />DuaneDuane Sherryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10482281700165504817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502332727845937105.post-54616179508723913702011-02-21T10:19:47.261+01:002011-02-21T10:19:47.261+01:00Rossa, yes, and the Family Care Foundation also wo...Rossa, yes, and the Family Care Foundation also works with families without always placing the person in crisis in a family home. But sometimes I think, it is the best thing to do, to get the person out of a dysfunctional environment that may take its time to change. The person in crisis may not have the time to wait for that to happen. Also, as I see it, many of the people who are helped by the Family Care Foundation don't have a family of their own to go and live with, and get supported by. They are people, who've been in and out of hospital, living in a group home, or something alike, when not hospitalized. Maybe they have a father here, and a mother there, who are living under circumstances that simply aren't supportive for someone in crisis. For instance in a small apartment in a neighbourhood with criminality, alcohol and substance abuse, etc., or just with neighbours right next door, who don't want to be disturbed, leaving no room for someone in crisis to be in crisis. Maybe their family struggle themselves to get through the day. Not everybody has a family that has at least the potential, emotionally, as well as economically, to do the work that needs to be done, and to provide the environment to support a family member in crisis. And not all families are motivated to do the work, even if they have the potential.<br /><br />As mentioned before, to me personally it was extremely important that I did not have to live under the same roof with my parents during acute crisis, i.e. during a period of time where I still felt responsible for and guilty about their dysfunctionality and their resulting misery. It would have meant an enormous, additional pressure on me that I don't know if I'd been able to take without going even more "nuts". Also I think, there's a greater temptation for the family to carry on scapegoating the family member in crisis when this family member remains "available" in the home of the family. Which may slow down the process of self-reflection and transformation in the family.Marianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16273435151682585281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502332727845937105.post-17426622944851719622011-02-21T09:01:15.046+01:002011-02-21T09:01:15.046+01:00Thanks for highlighting this DVD. Without viewing ...Thanks for highlighting this DVD. Without viewing it yet, it strikes me that this film would also serve to teach families how to treat their own relative at home. That doesn't have to involve pointing the finger at them and claiming that the psychosis is all their fault. There's such a disconnect in mental health care. It seems so simple, teach the families instead of outsourcing the job. Instead, care in acute psychosis is seen as the preserve of hospitals, or somebody, anybody, other than the family in the case of Soterias.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06700295858497275586noreply@blogger.com