Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.”(297) B This quote is after his mom tells him she was raped and taken advantage of by her psychiatrist, who Augesten has lived with for several years. It shows that all the crap that he’s been through in life has made him numb to situations and stress. He blocks out his feelings as fast as he can and becomes numb to the situation.
She has her GED and lives with her two children and boyfriend. She was referred to the outpatient clinic by her in-patient psychiatrist for continued psychiatric evaluation and treatment. K states that: “ no matter what medications they put me on I end up in the hospital twice a year. My highs are my lows. I fly so fast that I end up paranoid and out of it.” As per K; she was sexually abused by an uncle at age 15.
That semester, I ended up taking incompletes in all of my classes. My doctors and professors declared I was overwhelmed with catching up in my classes and the anxiety of it all consumed me. Little did I know that it would be a decade later before I would officially find out it was really systemic lupus erythematosus. My diagnosis came as I was entering what I considered the magical part of my life. I had married, had a beautiful daughter and was working my dream job and finally felt like I was walking in my purpose.
My Multicultural Experiences Brenda Chen University of Phoenix January 26, 2014 An unforgettable experience I had with a multicultural environment was when I lived in a group home. During my teen years, I grew increasingly angry and rebellious after my father had a stroke and passed away. This event led to my deep depression and fear of almost everything. Eventually, I was hospitalized for hitting my sister’s boyfriend and severe depression. When I was discharged my mom was unable to take care of me.
* How my Parent’s divorce affected my Life * Children of divorce have lifelong effects. I grew up in a two-parent home for 17 years of my life. Then one day it was over, my parents announced they were getting a divorce. My parents had been married for 23 years and during that time they produced five children. I always knew my parents were going to be divorced someday, because all they did was argued.
I began nursing school at a point in my life that was chaotic, I was getting divorced, my birth father was dying, and I was trying to settle into my role as a single parent of two young children. In Benner’s Stages of Nursing Expertise (2001), I began Stage I: Novice (Blais et al., 2011), amongst my chaotic situation. I knew as a young child I wanted to be a nurse and a teacher, but had no idea what it entailed till I became a nursing student. Coping at this point in my life had been tears and walking away, but I knew I had to do this not only for me but for the future of my children. The tides of change had started in my life at this point, developing new coping techniques were essential if I was going
My wife would send me emails stating that Rex was not well. She was very aware of the severity and sought out help from the school. She was sadly turned away, because they did not have a counselor to provide the deployment group counseling that is needed at times of war. She was in a battle of her own that I would not fully understand for seven months. I came time for my something that I had dreamed of.
Enough to help someone who wants to commit suicide, or someone who’s been sexually assaulted, or abused, and for those who’ve lost a loved one. You can see me at school with a smile on my face and a bunch of friends surrounding me, but there’s more to me. This is my story. How I was lost, sexually assaulted, hurt, depressed, went through grieve, and finally how I recovered. I was the first born and was the only child till I was six, but during those six years I witness my mother getting hit by my father and him being drunk every day and never home.
After a couple of weeks of being in an out of the hospital visiting her, I told her daughter and son-in law that I thought I could be a nurse. My cousin’s husband told me that it was just because I was caring for her. I thought about what he said and figured maybe he’s right. Several years later my son’s father was wrestling with a friend and he was dropped. His seventh vertebra was fractured.
After months of testing and the doctors telling my mom I might have cancer, we finally got an answer. My diagnosis was called Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis (pediatrics 2005). This disease is something that is very rare childhood disease. After multiple surgeries, lots of medication and a whole year spent living at the hospital things had started to quiet down. Throughout all of this, I met so many compassionate nurses, doctors with great bedside manner and even laundry and maintenance people who would stop and say hi.