I have fallen off the proverbial blogging wagon so to speak, but after some persuasion and inspiration I am looking to get back on it. I will start off by giving you something to think about.
After explaining the instructions of a rather complex board game to a psychiatric patient the following was overhead:
OT: Are you with me?
Patient: Are you with me?
OT: (is caught off guard and rendered speechless)
"If you could actually stand in someone else's shoes to hear what they hear, see what they see, and feel what they feel, you would honestly wonder what planet they live on, and be totally blown away by how different their 'reality' is from yours. You'd also never, in a million years, be quick to judge again." Author unknown.
That's all.
So glad you are back strange little girl :)
ReplyDeleteAs OT's we should always be "with our" patients as this is the only way that we can truly reach another complex and individual human being and enter their reality which is so vastly different from ours...