Don’t be alone if there’s an alternative, I am providing this show live. I’m down at the radio station CFYT’s radio station, and you’re welcome to join me I’ll be answering my phone, but it gets busy. I’ve prerecorded a lot of this show so I have snippets of time to share, but I am not a therapist and have no desire to be one. I love people but I have a toxic nature in that I’m happy most of the time. I don’t mind the other feelings but there are some that I find difficult and avoid. If you need help,
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“ if you’re listening on a Tuesday night This is likely a live show, coming to you from CFYT right here in Dawson City. I’ve prerecorded a lot of tonight’s show, so I do have snippets of time to chat — though it does get busy sometimes. you can call me at 1-250-208-2816. CFYT number993 5121.
if you feel like it, you’re welcome to come down to the station when I’m here. Most nights it’s just one or two of us, and it’s fun to see a couple extra faces around. i’ve seen looks in some of those faces that tell me something really worked. I’ve also seen looks that suggest I might try a different approach next time.
Now, some of what we’re talking about tonight can stir things up. And I want to be clear: I’m not a therapist, and I don’t want to be one. I love people, but I’ve got my own quirks — I’m happy most of the time, and I like that, but I have friends who find it just a little over the top, which is my last name OTT. all that’s OK but sometimes my friends find me toxic. I don’t wanna be that guy,. I have a tendency to wanna fix things. I got plenty of things to work on myself so I figure I should leave most people alone. keep in mind that this show is about the sociology or sosillyology, as I would have it, of mental health and it’s different than psychology or psychiatry. “Here’s a quick way to think about it:
• Psychology looks at how individuals think, feel, and behave — it’s about the mind and emotions.
• Psychiatry is medical — psychiatrists are doctors who can prescribe medication and treat mental illness like they would any other illness.
• Sociology steps back and asks: how do family, politics, work, religion, age, or inequality shape mental health? It’s less about the brain chemistry and more about the social world we live in.
Put simply: psychology is the mind, psychiatry is the medicine, and sociology is the society.”
i’m going to try to be mindful and that’s a good idea with this unit in particular
if you’re having a hard time, and there’s not an alternative. Here in Dawson, you can call Mental Wellness & Substance Use Services at the hospital: 867-993-4300. They’ve got free drop-in counselling Wednesdays from 1:30 to 3:30, and more support through the week.
And if it feels urgent, or you just need someone to talk to any time, day or night, there’s a national number you can call: Talk Suicide Canada at 1-833-456-4566. You can also text 45645. They’re there 24/7.
So please, if something rises up in you while listening, remember you don’t have to carry it alone. Dawson’s a small town, but you’re not on your own. We’ve got people right here, and across Canada, ready to listen and to help.”
Ill try to put an add together…. See how that goes…I worked at UBC psychiatric hospital for a while
I learned that smart people can be really sick a little bit of one flew over the cuckoo‘s nest and I was one of the assistant nurses I helped to hold people down well a nurse gave him a shot
No training provided special hospital. We didn’t take any violent people for the most part.
I had my own issues
I have significant difficulty talking to adults, but if they’re sick or need help or that kind of thing I do relatively well I think it’s just normal conversation that I have a problem with
This is where who gets in is tightly monitored people don’t have much time to get better
When I was seventeen I had a car, a job, lots of friends, enough money to do much of what I wanted, and a great mom. Then I drove a car through a telephone pole. I lost a great friend, and I was fucked. That was before I did drugs. Within a month I found drugs and everything began to change so I know a little bit about mental health from the inside sorta. lots of times I feel really stable and then some little thing will happen and I question so much. I’ve come to realize that most of us have something that makes us question reality and our place within it. I know that if I take it easy with drugs, I’m a lot more stable. That doesn’t mean I don’t do any, but I’m not really interested in getting totally wasted. I do like to be comfortably numb but not to the point of being disabled so I play this game of life that includes drugs, but tries not to be ruled by them. That’s gotta make you laugh out loud but for this show to be worth while there’s gotta be a little bit of authenticity here so that’s kind of it for me folks the rest is sociologies‘s fault.