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RE: 'The King who believed he was a Cow' - Tales from the edge of Psychology (#1).
It begs the question one might ask themselves in audience with a schizophrenic. Whom do we consider the beholder of "true reality" ?
Absolutely, who's to say. Having worked with a number of schizophrenics in particular, this can be one of the toughest things about chieving sustainable recovery. If someone told me that my name wasn't callum, I wasn't Welsh and that this is all one big dellusion, why would I believe that person ?
I remember one patient we had vividly, such a wonderful guy. He had decided that he worked in the local car manufacturing factory, and so would take himself down there each morning to sign in for work. It was as confusing for him as it was heartbreaking for us to have to repeatedly reinforce that this was a dellusion, took a long time to break the cycle.
It's fascinating stuff no doubt :)
I've always taken a strong interest in psychology. How did you first get into it? Sounds like you've had a lot of clinic experience.
That's great, there's no end to the learning you can do when it comes to Psychology, the field progresses so quickly. It's still very young in relation to many of the 'old-school' scientific fields of study.
Well having bounced back and forth between dead-end jobs after leaving school, I felt very unfulfilled. It's so silly looking back, but I was big-into Derren Brown at the time - God, I don't think I've ever admitted this, ha! - and that's what led to my initial interest, trying to work out the Psychology behind what he was doing.
That led to lots of self-study, which led to entry mental-health roles, which led to the degree, which in turn led to more 'Involved' psychological roles, etc etc.
I'm just glad I didn't realise the man was a magician at the time, what a different life that would have been :)
What do you do for a living at the mo ?
How crazy! It's cool that you can trace back you're initial source of inspiration! I'm working as a medical assistant right now.. giving people eye exams and helping dr.'s with eye-related procedures. I'm doing it because I regret being a communications major haha.
Hey that sounds really interesting, what kind of procedures?
You're a stronger person than me! Eye-squeemishness levels are off the charts here.