Saturday, 28 January 2012

Crisis and self management

This should be an impossible sentence. Self management works except in crisis. This is about definitions I guess. Significant life crisis is something a person can't handle. Self management is all about managing outside life crisis but when it reaches a true crisis a person can't manage it themselves.

Self management is the best option for anyone. Crisis care makes things worse for a lot of people. It can be torturous and make crisis worse when a person desperately needs to get better. It can involve imprisonment, removal from a person's usual surroundings and coercive treatment. These are all obviously protocols which make a person feel worse and when they're used during a crisis they can significantly affect a person's mental state to make it worse.

I perceive the extension of selg management programmes as the future of mental healthcare in the short term but I can't see how crisis care can get better other than...well...lots of things which cost too much.

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