@executioner-brandsaid My 2 part plan worked.
1) Change to vaping
2) Quit vaping
Roughly $100 better a week.
I still get urges to supply my body with nicotine but hey I smoked 30 years.
I used a quit clinic and from there I could work out the decreasing factors and timeframe similar to quitting with patches or gum.
Edit: the greatest success is not the money but lack of poison that was forming on my tongue whilst on forced schizophrenia meds.
Well done you! Having a diagnosis of schizophrenia would make it extremely hard to quit. You must be one in a million.
@executioner-brandsaid My 2 part plan worked.
1) Change to vaping
2) Quit vaping
Roughly $100 better a week.
I still get urges to supply my body with nicotine but hey I smoked 30 years.
I used a quit clinic and from there I could work out the decreasing factors and timeframe similar to quitting with patches or gum.
Edit: the greatest success is not the money but lack of poison that was forming on my tongue whilst on forced schizophrenia meds.
@executioner-brandsaid My 2 part plan worked.
1) Change to vaping
2) Quit vaping
Roughly $100 better a week.
I still get urges to supply my body with nicotine but hey I smoked 30 years.
I used a quit clinic and from there I could work out the decreasing factors and timeframe similar to quitting with patches or gum.
Edit: the greatest success is not the money but lack of poison that was forming on my tongue whilst on forced schizophrenia meds.
Congrats...I found it harder to quit smoking than drinking!
@drewnogalsaid Well done you! Having a diagnosis of schizophrenia would make it extremely hard to quit. You must be one in a million.
A name is a name.
But if I battled with voices and belief of things that aren't real then maybe it would be harder. My struggles are with traumatic brain injury, especially noise that stops me sleeping.
It is actually easier being schizophrenic when you understand you are being poisoned.
@divegeestersaid If you could change your avatar it would represent a turning point...
I had a friend recently die from suicide. He was on the compulsory mental health act and picking butts off the street to support his habit.
My avatar shows the poison that is created when smoking whilst on schizophrenia meds that are forced. So the only way to stop the poison is to quit smokes because mental health professions rarely admit they are wrong.
@executioner-brandsaid I had a friend recently die from suicide. He was on the compulsory mental health act and picking butts off the street to support his habit.
My avatar shows the poison that is created when smoking whilst on schizophrenia meds that are forced. So the only way to stop the poison is to quit smokes because mental health professions rarely admit they are wrong.
I think a more accurate statement would be Mental Health Professionals never admit they are wrong! 😉
@very-rustysaid Have you admitted to be wrong about anything to do with your mental health care outreach?
THINK before you answer of things you may have said in the past!!!! 😛 😉
VR
Like all professions, we learn from our mistakes and I have certainly made my share in my time. (Especially when starting out).
I recall, for instance, doing a home visit many years ago without familiarising myself with the risk assessment, and finding myself sitting in front of someone ranting about human sacrifices, and then spotting the large carving knife on the coffee table.
@ghost-of-a-dukesaid Like all professions, we learn from our mistakes and I have certainly made my share in my time. (Especially when starting out).
I recall, for instance, doing a home visit many years ago without familiarising myself with the risk assessment, and finding myself sitting in front of someone ranting about human sacrifices, and then spotting the large carving knife on the coffee table.
Those kind of mistakes are rarely repeated.
What is the most difficult part of your profession? Is it being objective and still maintain empathy? Or what would it be?
@torunnsaid What is the most difficult part of your profession? Is it being objective and still maintain empathy? Or what would it be?
I think the main challenge is the same as when I worked in terminal care, and that's not taking things home with me at the end of the day. Life is stressful enough as it is, but certainly when I started out I was a bit like a sponge soaking up the problems of the people I cared for. - The only way to cope in my area of work is to have that mental switch between work and my private life.
@ghost-of-a-dukesaid I think the main challenge is the same as when I worked in terminal care, and that's not taking things home with me at the end of the day. Life is stressful enough as it is, but certainly when I started out I was a bit like a sponge soaking up the problems of the people I cared for. - The only way to cope in my area of work is to have that mental switch between work and my private life.
Interesting indeed. You have a difficult and demanding profession - certainly a job where you grow and mature every day.
@very-rustysaid I think a more accurate statement would be Mental Health Professionals never admit they are wrong! 😉
-VR
A classic mistake is to misdiagnose bipolar II as unipolar depression. They try them on SSRI's which causes the patient to require hospitalization for psychosis/mania. The psychiatrists generally admit to that particular error.