From the horse’s mouth. 09/08/2010
It’s been a while since I last wrote in here. I have been extremely busy working.
I work with people who have a physical disability, using my psychological knowledge to support them. The physical disabilities I work with are far ranging, MS, ME, Parkinsons disease, brain injury, stroke, epilepsy, to name a few.
Did you know that 50% of people who have a stroke will then suffer from depression?
That coping with epilepsy can be so difficult, the amount of service users that apologize for having a seizure is incredible, it’s not possible to control having a seizure once it’s started; yet they apologize for it! My job is to help them with their stress levels, stress and epilepsy can go hand in hand and recognizing triggers can really help.
I’m constantly amazed by the fighting spirit of those that have MS, knowing how dibilitating it is and yet keep going. Having a good support system behind them really helps as depression, particularly situational depression is the killer here.
The joy I feel when I see a gentleman with parkinsons able to walk up the corridor and see the smile on his face!
Got to go to work now!