Mark Hansen wrote:Unsaved, if this is your attitude as a "compassionate health care worker", you are burnt out and and need to find a new profession. With this attitude, you couldn't possibly help those you are supposed to help, and it certainly isn't doing you any good either.

Now, fuck off.

I'm not burnt out after 21 years. And no way am I going to find a new profession--the money, benefits and hours are too good.

I don't encounter psychs every day in my job, but when I do they get treated just as nicely as anyone else, even though I might be thinking at the moment that they are full of shit. In fact, they get treated extra nice because, as we all know, they can snap at any moment. Maybe if you came out of elite Park Ridge and spent a little time in Uptown, you would know this.

unsaved wrote:

Mark Hansen wrote:Unsaved, if this is your attitude as a "compassionate health care worker", you are burnt out and and need to find a new profession. With this attitude, you couldn't possibly help those you are supposed to help, and it certainly isn't doing you any good either.

Now, fuck off.

I'm not burnt out after 21 years. And no way am I going to find a new profession--the money, benefits and hours are too good.

I don't encounter psychs every day in my job, but when I do they get treated just as nicely as anyone else, even though I might be thinking at the moment that they are full of shit. In fact, they get treated extra nice because, as we all know, they can snap at any moment. Maybe if you came out of elite Park Ridge and spent a little time in Uptown, you would know this.

It horrifies me to think that there are idiots like this in the health care system. I really hope it's the exception and not the norm.

How fucking depressing would it be to find out that the trusted nurse/worker of one of your family members had this mindset for 5 years.

This is what is wrong with the mental health care system.

unsaved wrote:

Mark Hansen wrote:Unsaved, if this is your attitude as a "compassionate health care worker", you are burnt out and and need to find a new profession. With this attitude, you couldn't possibly help those you are supposed to help, and it certainly isn't doing you any good either.

Now, fuck off.

I'm not burnt out after 21 years. And no way am I going to find a new profession--the money, benefits and hours are too good.

I don't encounter psychs every day in my job, but when I do they get treated just as nicely as anyone else, even though I might be thinking at the moment that they are full of shit. In fact, they get treated extra nice because, as we all know, they can snap at any moment. Maybe if you came out of elite Park Ridge and spent a little time in Uptown, you would know this.

I've lived in, for about 20-25 years, and spent plenty of time there, in Chicago. Lived in Ukrainian Village before it was considered safe by all the yuppies living there now. Hung out in plenty of depressed neighborhoods. I make no apology for where I live now.

You lumped in people on antidepressants with people who are violently mentally ill. A significant number of people on this forum have taken antidepressants at some time in their life, myself included. They helped me at a bad patch in my life, gave me a stable place to get myself together. I do not take them now.

I'd guess, by all the admissions I have read on this forum, that the number of people here who have been on antidepressants is greater than 1 in 8.

I'm not the one looking down on the people I am supposed to be helping.

At this point, I'm guessing you're just another troll.

unsaved wrote:

DazeyDiver wrote:no fucking way can you be a health care worker. unless you're mentally retarded. you'd know that there's a little bit of a difference between the 'violently mentally ill' and the average person thats on antidepressants you cunt.

You're right. Just a little difference. Now put the knife down, psych.

Do you think these drugs make people crazy, or do you think people are being screened in some way before being proscribed these drugs? I can assure you, doctors hand these proscriptions out like candy to anyone who asks.

Mark Hansen wrote:

unsaved wrote:

Red Square wrote:unsaved, shouldn't we be a bit too old to be living by absolutes?

Perhaps, but I just have a thing against the violently mentally ill. I'm a normally compassionate health care worker, but I have no tolerance for psychs who have permanently injured and almost killed people I've known. Go hang around Wilson & Broadway for a few hours in the summer. The streets are teeming with these dangerous fucks, who are never going to get better.

Mandroid2.0 wrote:If I ever meet you, prepare for a punch in the face, by a mentally unstable person not on their meds.

The fast track to a rubber room in this town.

Unsaved, if this is your attitude as a "compassionate health care worker", you are burnt out and and need to find a new profession. With this attitude, you couldn't possibly help those you are supposed to help, and it certainly isn't doing you any good either.

Now, fuck off.

For real

Mark Hansen wrote:I'm not the one looking down on the people I am supposed to be helping.

Like I said, my personal opinion of someone does not affect the way I treat them or their physical ailments. When it comes to psychological ailments, I have no inclination or professional obligation to deal with it, and they are referred elsewhere. And when the two overlap--for instance, if someone gobbles a whole bottle of their happy pills--the overdose is treated without prejudice and then the mental health people are called.

you are seriously fucked. you should seek professional help.

Ekkssvvppllott wrote:I dunno... That advice about "toughing up," getting excercise, eating well, going out more and all that, I find it to be slap in the face, at least when it's suggested as some kind of panacea for depression.

I can feel it in my body sometimes, and it ain't no stomach cramp.

i don't mean it as a slap in the face when i say "get some exercise, change your diet, etc." and i hope no one took it that way.

exercise and diet DO have an have effect on seratonin levels.

thyklopth wrote:It horrifies me to think that there are idiots like this in the health care system. I really hope it's the exception and not the norm.

I've got some bad news for you, then.......

Almost nobody in medicine wants to deal with the depressed or insane, except those working specifically in mental health. They take up space and time in already overburdened emergency rooms. After they are cleared physically, the goal is to get them the hell out and in the hands of mental health professionals. This is not "ER" or "Grey's Anatomy".