Melanie Allsop
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Conditions and diseases
Every first appointment with a new clinician, every first review after being admitted to a psychiatric ward, I spent less time thinking about what I wanted to say and more time wondering how I was going to answer the question…
Every first appointment with a new clinician, every first review after being admitted to a psychiatric ward, I spent less time thinking about what I wanted to say and more time wondering how I was going to answer the question I knew was coming. The question that always left me silent. The question that left me feeling as if I had already failed the conversation before it had even begun. …
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Trauma-informed care starts before the first question
Conditions and diseases
The longer I spent in the mental health system, the harder it became to remember who I was outside the pages of my medical record. Because when people stopped referring to me as the young girl I was, and instead…
The longer I spent in the mental health system, the harder it became to remember who I was outside the pages of my medical record. Because when people stopped referring to me as the young girl I was, and instead as a diagnosis or simply as “the patient in bed 27,” how was I supposed to remember who I was outside those hospital walls? The staff had read through my …
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Reduced to a diagnosis: I was the patient in bed 27
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