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Comment on Victoria’s mental health professionals by Nuwisha's Tail

Nuwisha's Tail — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:58:38 +0000

i can’t tell you how grateful I am, how appreciative I am, or how much I value all you do …

i don’t have the words.
but it’s a whole lot.
A lot.
no, really, a lot.

thank you, again.

Comment on Victoria’s mental health professionals by Uccello

Uccello — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:59:16 +0000

/me hugs you as one care giver to another.

Another tendency of a so-called professionals that galls me is when they question what I deal with every day compared to what they see but occasionally. I’ve changed dressings for years, I know my way around bedpans (sometimes when nurses in Hospital refuses to assist), and I know what is “normal” for my charge and what isn’t. Ask questions, but don’t question me, they need to learn. And I’m amazed how often I’m completely dismissed because I’m a woman and my brother happens to be with us or because I’m a mute. What is it about my genitals or lack of vocal chords that disqualifies me for what I do 24/7?

Thanks for letting me vent. I’m sorry you have problems, too, and if I could make them go away, I would.

Comment on Victoria’s mental health professionals by L.Knoller

L.Knoller — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:46:57 +0000

I’ve found problems often stem from the healthcare professional thinking they are the most important person in the room

Comment on Victoria’s mental health professionals by Tigro Spottystripes

Tigro Spottystripes — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:19:28 +0000

Perhaps things would be different if their salaries were proportional to how well they treat the patients, or even somthing a little less gradual and a bit more binary like loosing their job and license to practice medicine after N incidents (not saying right at the very first one ’cause everyone got bad days)

Comment on Victoria’s mental health professionals by draxtor

draxtor — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:45:48 +0000

Thanks for writing this! I did my civil service 20 years ago in Germany at a mental health facility and was pretty shocked how the [possibly a bit jaded] staff treated the “clients” (as we called the patients there). I seemed to fare far better with common sense approach and following my instinct even when acute psychotic states had to be dealt with. I do think a lot came from the fact that most lower level staff members [but also psychologists] really had given up & saw the whole situation as a holding tank rather than a place to help people or at least treat them with human dignity and compassion…

Comment on Victoria’s mental health professionals by Fogwoman Gray

Fogwoman Gray — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:37:24 +0000

It sounds like medical personnel in Victoria have the same problems they do here in the US – woefully inadequate training in caring for those with mental health issues. The only people with substantive training here are actually working in the mental health field – and the few facilities available in most areas are horrifically underfunded, understaffed, and neglected.
One city I lived in did have a 24-hour mental health ER, which was a godsend for our patients having crises.

Comment on Victoria’s mental health professionals by Ener Hax

Ener Hax — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:52:16 +0000

You may not have formal training but you have something that can not be easily taught – care and compassion

Comment on Lumiya 2.0 now with some limited 3D by Wolf Baginski

Wolf Baginski — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:30:41 +0000

I think “Lumiya” pretty much has to have a consonantal “y” in there, and if so the “i” could could be a bit different too.

Comment on Victoria’s mental health professionals by Psyke

Psyke — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:30:00 +0000

My grandmother went to the local GP because her vision was going. The doc looked and shook his head implying it was not fixable and she went home. Later she went to hospital, they noticed her eye problems, gave her some drops and they cleared up.

Never get one opinion.

Comment on Victoria’s mental health professionals by Trinity Dejavu

Trinity Dejavu — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:05:55 +0000

That would be why I got out of working in care and have no intention of ever going back

Comment on Victoria’s mental health professionals by Bryony

Bryony — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:17:56 +0000

I’ve had reactive depression a few times in my life.
We’ve got similar problems in the UK. Psychiatrists that see you as the illness, not a person. One shrink I had regularly turned up over an hour late to his consultation sessions. Community Psychiatric Nurses that judge patients and decide who deserves support and sympathy and who doesn’t.

Thank God I was contacted by mental health charity Together and invited to their helpful programmes. Their home visitors were far more helpful and their weekly meeting, courses and occasional conferences allowed me to meet a wide range of people with various mental health conditions.
Being able to support others and encourage each other is a wonderful thing!
Thank you Together!

Comment on Lumiya 2.0 now with some limited 3D by Trinity Dejavu

Trinity Dejavu — Tue, 15 May 2012 08:26:11 +0000

Waaaaaa !! Want for iOS !!

Comment on Lumiya 2.0 now with some limited 3D by Tateru Nino

Tateru Nino — Tue, 15 May 2012 06:08:05 +0000

They look like they’d be pronounced the same way to me.

Comment on Lumiya 2.0 now with some limited 3D by Tigro Spottystripes

Tigro Spottystripes — Tue, 15 May 2012 05:53:58 +0000

Yep, that’s the one.

Hm, are the two names at least pronounced differently?

Comment on Lumiya 2.0 now with some limited 3D by Tateru Nino

Tateru Nino — Tue, 15 May 2012 03:30:23 +0000

You’re probably thinking of the very similarly named “Lumia”

Comment on Lumiya 2.0 now with some limited 3D by Tigro Spottystripes

Tigro Spottystripes — Tue, 15 May 2012 02:53:35 +0000

Isn’t that the name of a device from Nokia?

Comment on Lumiya 2.0 now with some limited 3D by Latif Khalifa

Latif Khalifa — Tue, 15 May 2012 01:43:43 +0000

I was quite impressed with Lumiya.

Comment on Is it fixed yet? by Arduenn

Arduenn — Tue, 15 May 2012 01:43:34 +0000

I have experienced long loading times and lots of failing teleports. But I never lost anything and I built a lot in a past week. Maybe Premium Members get to use better SL hardware? (That would be a nice reason to go Premium, btw. Unlike receiving railcar gifts)

Comment on Is it fixed yet? by Iggy

Iggy — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:30:32 +0000

“The Good Old Times are back. The Lab does what the Lab does, but forgets that the customers who pay for all of it would like to hear whats going on.”

@Stryker, when exactly was this NOT the case? I recall a town-hall meeting in 2007(?) as the last event where the Lindens made even a show of listening to those who pay their bills.

For SL’s remaining educators, at least these outages fall during summer break for he US cohort. But our international members are trying–trying–to finish work with professional students in nursing, science, and other fields.

I hope they are looking to OpenSim grids after this continuing fiasco. With both Tateru and Hamlet decrying different problems with SL today, you’d think the Lindens might make some public statements beyond Rod Humble’s funny Tweets.

But even British humor gets old when others are paying the bills.

Comment on Is it fixed yet? by Frans Charming

Frans Charming — Sun, 13 May 2012 20:02:23 +0000

I have had a similar experience as Ezra. We have build a race game these last two weeks, with lots of scripted pieces for game play elements, and none of it disappeared.

While there where days we couldn’t log in though.