Once a patient, always a patient
'Once a patient, always a patient'
This hit me hard. My teacher was talking about job prospects. When it came to psychiatry, he mentioned, 'such doctors have a fixed income because once a patient, always a patient'
It sank deep into my heart. I'm a patient. I'm always a patient. I'm forever, a patient. There's no going back from my diagnosis. I cannot erase it. No one can cure it. It's a disease with no cure, only management. And all the diseases i have have no cure. It's sad when we think like that. The fact that i have to visit doctors occasionally and forever.
I'm always a patient.
@loyalBlueberry7653 ok so yeah! We may always be patients. But that's not all we are, we are fighters, survivors, heros, compassionate, kind ,loving, humans. I'm sorry those words affected you so much. But please remember you are much more than just a patient ❤
@Tinywhisper11
thank you so much. youre right. we could be much more than patients.
@loyalBlueberry7653 yep 😁 you can be whoever you want ❤❤
@loyalBlueberry7653
I don't know how is it feeling for you right now. However, as a cartoon nerd, I believe we can relate to some of these characters.
- Prince Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
- Hunter/The Golden Guard from The Owl House.
- Bucky Barne from Marvel.
- Batman/Bruce Wayne from DC.
- Finn the Human from Adventure Time.
No, they don't really heal. They just start over, learn from the past, reach for those care for them, and find themselves upon a new peak.
@loyalBlueberry7653
The thing that gets me about most therapists is that they will automatically assume that their patients are wrong about everything, simply because they're patients. And I do mean EVERYTHING--I had a therapist tell me I "couldn't" be fat once, even though I had literally weighed myself twenty minutes before and she had no idea what I weighed. When I told her what I weighed--literally an objective fact that I knew and she had no way of knowing at that moment--she told me I was wrong because I didn't "look fat" and didn't have food stains on my shirt.