insperational psych stories with good outcomes??

[MSc44]

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SO i guess this would be a good place to post this since it is the psych forum. Can any of you guys/women share and success stories, that you may have experiances personally where people have gone on to achieve good things in their lives, after being touched by any MI

this would be besides Dr Jameson, the PhD from hopkins

i feel society only hears the horriable sides of outcomes,
my GF has a cousin who is affected a more serious MI and her life
is spinning out of control. Unfortunatly she does not want to help herself


So please share any insperational stories any at all

 

[MSc44]

SO i guess this would be a good place to post this since it is the psych forum. Can any of you guys/women share and success stories, that you may have experiances personally where people have gone on to achieve good things in their lives, after being touched by any MI

this would be besides Dr Jameson, the PhD from hopkins

i feel society only hears the horriable sides of outcomes,
my GF has a cousin who is affected a more serious MI and her life
is spinning out of control. Unfortunatly she does not want to help herself


So please share any insperational stories any at all

come on!
I know there has to be at least a few from all you practicing psych docs, or aspiring psych docs. Isnt this why the field exhists. I think it would be good to start a thread of this nature

 

[OldPsychDoc]

come on!
I know there has to be at least a few from all you practicing psych docs, or aspiring psych docs. Isnt this why the field exhists. I think it would be good to start a thread of this nature

Hey, give us a day or so, OK?
I figure I save a life about once a month or so--and that's good enough for me. The individual stories are pretty mundane, though, and wouldn't be likely to make much of an inspirational book, (or even a bad Lifetime Network movie).

I personally like my alcoholic guy that was such a bad social phobic when sober that he couldn't go to an AA meeting, until I got him on fluoxetine and quetiapine. He met a sweet-but-badly-traumatized meth addict there, got back to work, bought a house, stayed sober, and now they're expecting a baby. 😍
"Great things", maybe not---normal life, definitely!

 

[nitemagi]

I think part of the problem is that success in mental illness is a longitudinal process. It's not like organ transplantation. I've worked with kids on rotations where I felt like I made some impact, but after only a month with them, who's to say. On the other hand, growing up I had many friends with clinical depression in adolescence, some with seriously close suicide attempts even. Seeing them longitudinally now, after years of therapy and reformed support structures, they're happy parents, successful lawyers, and so on.

In shorter moments, I think the suicide attempts stand out the most. Once you've seen someone so close to death at their own hand, caught in the throes of major depression, yet watch it clear with proper treatment, it's pretty amazing.

I've seen a number of patients in the hospital like this, such as one middle aged woman found passed out after a SA. She wound up in the ICU after her OD. Extubated, talked with her, and found a number of issues including that she wasn't taking her psych meds regularly, hadn't been to counseling in a while and was heavily drinking daily. But once she was detoxed in the hospital, put back on meds, and talked to for a while, her entire affect reversed. She wanted to be better, to get better. She was not only enthusiastic to get back to work, but back to life itself. She ended up heading to the inpatient realm for her SA, but everyone said it would be a short stay and she'd be back into her life quite soon, but this time with all the resources she needed for her mental health.