At the beginning I started to study this major because I wanted to work in Psychiatric hospitals, Asylums, or madhouses like people usually call them. I remember myself as a kid thinking that those people were always put apart from society, just because they have a differente way of approach to reality, hearing things that not everyone hear, feelling things that not everyone thinks, seeing things that not everyone see, and I thought that just because they were the only person who perceived those things that doesn't mean that those things weren't real.
So I used to want to Study in order to learn what madness is, why it happens, and how can you do something for them, to provide a comprensive hearing to those persons, to make them feel that they were not alone, and what they suffer wasn't a product of his fold.
In the course of studying this, and with some close experiences that have make me look madness to his face, my original purpose started to diluting and becaming an actual fear. But I think that is something that I still consider very important, and something that I would certanly do in some point of my life.
Working in an assylum seems like it requires a special ability to be resistant to the environment. I've never been to one, but I've been to places full of Alzheimer patients--these people can appear sort of "mad." It's a very sad, strange place.
ReplyDeleteIndeed is a very sad situation, but i think that someone has to do it
DeleteOh! It seems very hard, especially trying to mediate your approach to mental illness with the medical system and psychiatry :( good luck
ReplyDeleteI'm absolutely agree with you, and thank u a lot for the luck, I'm going to need it haha
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