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Relating to Others with Disabilities:
Relating to others
with disabilities is often difficult. If you have a mental illness
the only sources that understand you most times in the mental health
experts, and sometimes they fail. I cannot count on 90 peoples' finger
and toes how many patients told me that mental health experts were
not helping them. The patients were complaining about the medications
and treatment they were receiving.
The problem may have
lain between the patient and therapist, since sometimes patients do
not do their best to listen and follow instructions. Other times therapist
does not do their best to listen and hear, what the patient is telling
them. Regardless, something is not working, so we need to learn effective
strategies that help us to relate to disabilities.
Often when a patient
is complaining there is a source that lead to that complaint. In some
cases were the diagnose is affected by pretense (certain disorders
cause patients to complain even if there are not a problem), while
most disabilities there is a source and reason for the complaint.
Here is part of the problem. When the person has a source of complaint,
they are often ignored simply because they have a mental illness.
You are exaggerating is often the sentence used when a mental ill
patient complains. In most cases this is not true, since mental ill
patients are often more aware of their surroundings than the so-called
normal minds. Schizophrenias, psychotics, drug-induced disorders,
and a few other types of mental illnesses include symptoms of hallucination,
voices, delusions and illusions.
The patients will complain
that their voices are telling them to do something, and although this
is a degree of pretense or misunderstanding, it is important to listen
since the patient is subject to harm him or her self as well as others
around. When a person has an illus ional state of mind and voices
outside the head, then there is no room for disregarding the patient.
However, when a patient does not have symptoms listed above they often
are vigilant, and can explain what is happening to them. One other
problem is the therapist or others around the patient will often attempt
to disconnect the patient from his or her complaint. In other words,
they will tell the patient what the problem is, and avoid hearing
what the patient is telling them. Reading between the lines is the
best solution for communication and understanding, however most people
read between their own lines when communicating. I cannot stress the
disadvantages this action causes, since communication is vital for
humans to get along and understand one another. Dialect often plays
a role in failure of communication, since we are all different and
few of us can understand dialect.
Therefore, one effective
method of communicating and relating to disabilities is to grasp hold
of dialect and learn how to read between the lines of the patients.
It is important to continue consistent understanding strategies to
help the patient cope with his or her symptoms. Another great strategy
is “Role-Play.” Role Play is great since the patient can
look inside his or her self through a separate pair of eyes while
examining the cause and action of the problem. Stepping outside of
your own mind helps you to see between the lines, and helps the patient
to grasp hold of the solution in front of them. For example, the patient
may be living a harmful lifestyle that triggers their symptoms and
is unaware of their actions and behaviors. If the patient includes
all elements of the problem in the picture and views it with an open
mind or another eye, then the patient will most likely see the cause
of their problem.
This method is also
effective for helping the patient see who was a part of their symptoms,
such as the person may have been abused which caused the persons symptoms
to a degree. If that person comes to accept the problem then that
patient can move forward in life successfully. Acceptance then is
the other issue we must address to learn, and relate to disabilities,
as well as relate to everyone around us. Understanding mental illness
can help us to find the answers to the many problems around us.
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