The battle cry of a psychiatric nurse

[RedRat]

The lady from the psychiatric home assistance service came over today.
She found me shaken and the flat in a total mess too. For some unknown reason complete strangers recently kept shouting at me. Some for having a psychiatric condition, some for poverty. Most of them people working in administration (so couldn't avoid them).
I told her what happened. She said that she found it hard to belief. I could see the anger in her face. At some point she stopped me. "That's not the truth, don't say that ever again!" I feared the worst. "You are not psychiatrically ill, not one bit". [iOh God that tune again. Yes yes I know I am a fake and a liar because I don't look like your usual standard depressive or hypersensitive anxiety patient. Got that one at the clinic. Thank you very much. She gave me a stern look.

"You do not have a mental illness. Don't let anyone tell you that. You have a trauma. The very thing  this ignorants would have developed if they had gone through the same! How dare they judge if it is a completely natural reaction that any sane person would have under this circumstances?"

   

Seriously I could have kissed her. 

I think I will write that down and put it on the fridge. That's the first time I heard someone around me speaks about what it truly is: the normal reaction of a otherwise sane individual. If we were mentally ill we would be Narcs or Borderliners not people with C-PTSD. I wasn't very comfortable about having someone walking in to my flat to check up on me but I am impressed. I definitely like the style. That lovely lady has quite a fighter in her.
And it even got better: it tuned out that she is currently attending a class in C-PTSD in a rather renown clinic. Evidently it is a rather new diagnosis and she secured herself a place in to one of the first practical training classes for nurses -as she told me cheerfully. New diagnosis? Das ist des Pudels Kern! According to her the clinic also decided to specialise on C-PTSD as they believe it will be become the next big thing in psychiatry. So they are investing in to the trauma station in order to get a head start when the rat race kicks off. Needless to say that this is music to my ears. I might go and check that new trauma station out as it is a state owned clinic. I really want to be just done with that bull..it and get a real life.

So much too my usual whining that luck only happens to other people.
Well, if I am not one * of a lucky bunny -pardon- street rat! 

[songbirdrosa]

Just wanted to say, I'm so glad you had such a positive experience with her! It's invaluable when you find someone who really gets it

[Rainagain]

Cptsd the next big thing in psychiatry?

Does that mean I'm on trend and fashionable?

Woohoo!

[RedRat]

Yes we are big and tendy now. We will all soon be herded in a plain and tour Milan and Paris harhar 
Get the prosecco ready and grab your baguettes mates!

[I like vanilla]

Redrat, thank you for sharing such a hopeful story.

The world needs more people like this nurse. We need more people like this nurse. I am glad that you have her on your side.

[Blueberry]

Wow Redrat, I'm so happy for you that this nurse got it!

[Kizzie]

"You do not have a mental illness. Don't let anyone tell you that. You have a trauma. The very thing  this ignorants would have developed if they had gone through the same! How dare they judge if it is a completely natural reaction that any sane person would have under this circumstances?"

So so so glad to hear this, made my day!! 

[sanmagic7]

redrat, somehow i knew exactly what she meant when she said she couldn't believe it.  i could feel it - that she couldn't believe how hurtful people could be.  i could feel it that she knew about you and your truth, could speak to it, acknowledge it, and let you know that she knew.  i could kiss her, too.  big hug full of hope and love and a great whoppin' bunny tail.