Trusting medical professionals
Can medical professionals assume they have our trust automatically? What if, time after time, they’ve let you down, mistreated you and knocked your confidence?
Can medical professionals assume they have our trust automatically? What if, time after time, they’ve let you down, mistreated you and knocked your confidence?
When managing chronic illness, it’s really difficult to balance the benefits of medication with side effects.
Occupational therapy is about providing the right support so that individuals can “live, not exist”. When I was seriously mentally unwell focus was difficult but colouring provided a simple activity that used little energy and helped occupy my broken mind, step by step I managed to rebuild my life.