Tuesday, January 11, 2011

faith, freud and I

Couple of days ago I was confronted by the same question if I thought about psychiatry as a profession before. A lot of memories crossed my mind about my rotation last year in psychiatry wards being the guy in love with the mechanism of our psych to shape and qualify us to be included in such complex societies.
it didn't went as the bright vision I had about it and finished with a harsh times after each day thinking in the parking lot about that especially at that time when a schizophrenic guy that came to the doctor orienting us to the place to start shouting with the taboos -of the outside- .. the frightening part was the doctor's mask face with no expressions at all as if this man lost all value of everything he ever believed in at that specific time, a time in which all of your emotions are calculated as an imbalance of your neurotransmitters... yes you're no more than a broken machine !
psychiatry was that bell telling me that all of Freud's theories based on psychological analysis is lost in this new dawn of drugs making their users a "partially normal people" I say partially as the fear of losing it makes them at a worst condition than that free zone of illness which you can be what you want to.
what is our standards of a healthy mental status after all ?? being well enough to lie, cheat, hurt others and get away with it ? we need to think of it all over again.
I know for sure that I've changed the way I look to psychiatrists from that point as i had a booster shot of respect to them and to their patients that took their duty to them selves to be treated from illnesses our community still denies it's magnitude and common people attribute it to loss of faith, witchcraft and a lot of  nonsense they find a shelter in it from facing the ugly fact that we who assumed that we live in a normal way have created an environment perfect to trigger some of those illnesses, specifically the ones that "and i quote a psychiatrist friend" never takes the patient out of the darkness -depression in particular- as a huge number of such people live with no satisfaction about them selves even when fully dosed with drugs. it's simply something more than being high.
faith in the surrounding community and looking at it as the supportive safety net is the first thing we need around here. please help them by simply telling them that we are here to help.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Hello world

hello there, I'm abdulaziz and my about me in the side said it all
the question I want to know its answer is who isn't an obsessive compulsive now a days ?
with all the challenges in life each day no one can risk the chance of committing a mistake at least those that care from the beginning *salute them* still though it's ok to be wrong, we just need to learn from it.
I write because  I need to improve my English writing skills. THAT DOES NOT MEAN I'm turning it into a grammar teaching parade, I'll talk about things in my life and how I view them, I don't think this pages will have more than a few anonymous visits but I'm happy to reach those dark side creatures.
so here we go and let there be light or mood swings or whatever.