Mental Illness: My Personal Experience, Our Professional Responsibility

The quest of dreams and nightmares: my personal OT career and mental illness.

May/June 2002, Volume 56, Number 3 The Quest of Dreams and Nightmares: My Personal OT Career and Mental Illness Iam writing in regard to the article, “The Experience of Being an Occupational Therapist With a Disability,” written by Beth P. Velde [AJOT, 54(2):183–188]. In response to Darlene M. Coffey’s letter to the editor [AJOT, 55(3):352] and as a senior occupational therapy student, I feel i...

Mini-Fast with Exercise – My Personal Experience

Back in 1984, I visited China and Japan in the course of attending an international scientific congress on dietary selenium. After I had been walking around in Tokyo for a couple of days, a thought suddenly struck me: “Where are the fat people?” I literally recall seeing only one Japanese I considered fat during my several days in Japan – and that was a fellow dressed in a business suit in the ...

Personal problems associated with mental health and mental illness.

The trend toward the management of an increasing number of psychiatric patients in the community has led to concern over the evaluation of this policy, particularly with regard to the adjustment of such patients within 'the community. In the case of patients admitted to a mental hospital, successful treatment must be measured not only by their early discharge from hospital but also by their sub...

Surgical Dissection of the Facial nerve in Parotidectomy: Our Personal Experience

Our Responsibility?

have to take the Broad Street line and change at Willesden or go up to town by bus. The District trains won't be running for some while." A fair-haired woman standing nearby murmured: "How inconsiderate," and then laughed nervously, probably regretting her words. I thought of the man or woman lying on the track, perhaps killed outright, dying or maimed, for the station official would not really...