Severina

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1. Nurses struggling with mental illness

   Severina replied to Severina's topic in Disabilities

   Wow. You have awesome coping skills, and I can tell, a fighting personality who is determined to 'make it'. A flight nurse! the green berets of nursing. *bows in obeisance* Severina

2. Nurses struggling with mental illness

   Severina replied to Severina's topic in Disabilities

   So, can menopause make psych symptoms worse??? Great, I have that to look foward to. I'm 37 and starting to think about 'THE CHANGE'. Severina

3. Nurses struggling with mental illness

   Severina replied to Severina's topic in Disabilities

   Hang in there. Clinical instructors are notorious for making nursing students walk on egg shells, and be unnerved. They try to "weed out" those who can't take the pressure. The real world is much different. Have you thought about going into hospice?...

4. Nurses struggling with mental illness

   Severina replied to Severina's topic in Disabilities

   I have been a nurse for twenty years and have worked full time for both decades. I also live with DID/PTSD, dyslexia, and depression. It has not been easy by a long shot. (((can you say amen?? ))) Wow, 20 yrs! How long have you known about your DID...

5. Nurses struggling with mental illness

   Severina replied to Severina's topic in Disabilities

   Haa haa haa. GUMs. I love it. Severina

6. Hell

   Severina posted a topic in Hospice

   Yesterday, at work, I had a disturbing experience to be sure. I work afternoon shift at a hospice residence and the night before last one guy who was pre-active to active started going into some sort of terminal restlessness. But it was different tha...

7. Nurses struggling with mental illness

   Severina replied to Severina's topic in Disabilities

   That is sooooo stupid. They cannot discriminate based on MI blah blah blah. Who do they think they are kidding? All they have to do is come up with some other "legitamate" reason for letting you go and deny that it has anything to do with MI. Its as ...

8. Nurses struggling with mental illness

   Severina replied to Severina's topic in Disabilities

   Dang! what state do you live in??!! Remind me to never move there. I live in Michigan and no one has ever inquired as to my mental health background. I think that is discriminatory. Do they inquire as to physical limitations as well? I think I woul...

9. Nurses struggling with mental illness

   Severina replied to Severina's topic in Disabilities

   Wow. I am so touched. I don't know what else to say. I know that I disclose too much about myself to people, sometimes too soon and it has caused me lots of problems. My kid alters were forced to keep secrets for so long that when we don't tell peopl...

10. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Severina replied to Severina's topic in Disabilities

    hey, i love your name. i am really into my celtic heritage and all things celtic, but thats ot. i wish i had some magic pill that would put everything together for you. unfortunately this is a process and psych meds are not perfect. all i can say is ...

11. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Severina replied to Severina's topic in Disabilities

    I didn't know they were drug testing for nursing school! geez. I wouldn't worry too much about it though. When I got my hospice job, I had to be drug tested. I didn't tell them what meds I was on, I don't think. I was taking wellbutrin, zoloft, klona...

12. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Severina replied to Severina's topic in Disabilities

    I think I would get another doc if I were you. I ECT is sometimes helpful for people with intractable depression, but for bipolar people it can be dangerous. It also messes with your memory, so if you are already dissociative, it will just aggravate ...

13. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Severina replied to Severina's topic in Disabilities

    Wow, thanks for all the replies. I guess there are a lot of nurses out there with these problems. It just seems that in nursing there is a lot of pressure to be "tough" and perfect. To ARPN: I admire you for pursuing this career, and funtionality an...

14. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Severina posted a topic in Disabilities

    I was just wondering if there are any other nurses who struggle with mental illness. It seems to be one disability that is met with little tolerance and support in the medical field. I do have major co-morbid mental illness, Major depression/PTSD/DID...

15. tutorial: How to use the forums

    Severina replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    How do I upload my own avatar? I could only find where I could only choose between ones the site had. Severina