Doesn’t surprise me, and that’s actually quite smart.
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Windex007@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago“If I push on this, I will alienate myself from this clearly mentally unstable patient and at that point there is no chance to help them”
It’s literally how mental health professionals are trained.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
You’re right.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 week ago
It depends on the reason for their agitation. If they’re having a paranoid moment then you need ti tell them the truth to help them out of it.
If you lie they might pick up on it and that kills the trust they have in you.
You don’t have to press them to take meds they don’t want to take, but if you lie about why you’re stopping (“maybe you’re right”), instead of telling the truth about why you’re stopping (“I don’t want to break our therapeutic connection by pushing you”), it can make things backslide.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
De-escalating with mentally troubled people.
Step 1: agree with them
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Step 2: Patient is now the president
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Imagine if someone snuck some therapy pills into the president’s cofifeffifeffee.
zeca@lemmy.eco.br 2 weeks ago
reminds me of that film where someone puts LSD into the water of some military base. Then everyone chills and start rolling in the grass or smt.