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Definitely. My psych patients were normal by my standards. They just had issues which brought them here. They were honestly way easier to deal with than medicine patients.I think you have to find some amount of balance and obviously with psych boundaries are huge. Yes he's not your friend he's your pt, but also seeing the similiaries and acknowledging them is helpful for having empathy for him as well as breaking down stigma. At the end of the day it's a lot harder to lump all psych pts into the crazy bucket if you see them as people just like everyone else who happen to have a particular disease. I guess I don't see how helpful it actually is to put that label on people as their end all be all. Yes they have a disease, but it tends to come along with a lot of bull**** cultural baggage than other types of diseases and I think it's important to be cognizant of that stigma.
Though the outpatient ones were way more annoying. Patients complaining about lifestyle issues and wanting meds to deal with it. I hated that part and didn't sympathize with them at all. Like, omg, you have to deal with problems we all deal with. Poor you