05-03-2014, 08:18 PM
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#27617 (permalink)
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gun whales
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Knoxville/Nashville, TN, USA, NA, E, S, LC, MW, Known Universe
Posts: 1,713
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Originally Posted by hate paper doll
If you ask me, the fact that you cared enough to do ANYTHING is admirable. I hope you don't let this make you doubt yourself or your studies. We all have to start somewhere, and now you can learn from the experience and use it as you move forward.
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Originally Posted by RoxyRollah
[SPOILER="I just don't know what happened just now"]
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Ok sweetie,
You are young, and I don't put that out there as an insult, rather to point out that, when things like that happen to someone for the first time, they often times don't know how to react. Panic is very very normal in times of extreme stress I am looking at your post and I can honestly say from an objective stand point doll you did absolutely nothing wrong. I fail to see what unpleasant thing you learned about yourself, you cared enough to talk to your friend, call the appropriate people, and if the kid swallowed a hand full of anti-psychotics, you just never know how someone will react, to the things you are saying. ( I can attest to this personally as I took 3 shots of halidol in the hospital at a low point in my life and all I kept screaming was NO POLICE! Wasn't a damn cop in sight ok!)
Now do you think those doctors, and nurses that were within arms reach of me and had 25+ years of medical experience didn't treat me like a rabid animal and look at me in horror and panic while I was throwing **** that was within my reach? ABSO****INLOUTELY they did.
I think you are beating yourself up waaaay to ****in hard darling. Now that you have dealt with this situation, if something like this happens to you again in your life time, that panic feeling that you felt will mostly likely be replaced with calm. Humans are resilient brother, and when they are exposed to something once and learn from it, and grow from it the next time this situation or something dire like that happens again, the reaction becomes natural. In all actuality the way I would suggest you look it is for being as young as you are, unseasoned as you are in the mental health field, you got your cherry popped long before you ever go into practice for yourself. I think you passed with flying colors doll. 
If you ever need anything you know where my pm is.
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Thank you both for your kind words. This kind of self-evaluation probably stemmed from the fact that I've been picturing myself working in this field for almost eight years now, and most kids don't daydream about panicking and inexperience. Guess it's a good thing I've gotten my sophomoric romanticism tempered early.
And Roxy, I greatly appreciate your willingness to share something like that with me. That kind of lived-experience feedback is exactly what I needed I think. It helped put things into perspective quite a bit. Now that I think about it, I did learn quite a bit from it; I've read and written about these kinds of procedures before but that's no substitute for actually carrying them out. Thanks for helping me see that.
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