Help!!!! Psych Meds

I have been in the field for over 15 years and I find the idea of "drawing a psychotic person" offensive. People (and they are people first) are not always psychotic. Taking psychiatric medications help people to control the symptoms of their illness and ideally improve their quality of life. Therefore it is inaccurate to reference a psychotic person with any psychiatric medication, as it when an individual does not take them, that they can become psychotic. In addition, how could anyone, who has no experience in the field assume that they could "draw a psychotic person"? Each mental illness, and thus each psychosis, is different for everyone.

You can refer to any elitist, theory based journal of your chosing, I know them all. However, in the real world psychiatric care is individualized and it focuses on the human being. Anyone can learn theory, the true test is the ability to provide supportive, non-judgmental tx to each individual, not to each diagnosis. You can not possibly know how BiPolar disorder impairs someone's functioning unless you venture to know that person.

Imagine someone with a mental illness, obtaining help, coming to terms with the fact that they may need medication for the rest of their life...and then perhaps they find a misplaced student "reminder" card with a picture of how that student sees them? It's called empathy, not theory.

For me, the repeated looking up of meds eventually gets them to stick in my brain.

SOON 2B RN is just asking how to remember meds as a student... What's wrong with drawing a picture of a Psychotic person if it's gona help a student remember signs/symptoms or meds for such illness?

It's no different from listing signs/symptoms of one MI word for word.

I don't see how it is Judgemental to draw/list the known symptoms of one illness whether it's mental or physical.

Let's take a chill pill and be happy