🇬🇧🇺🇸Management Summary Modul 1 (25-27 April 2017)
One month after the last meeting, we all met again in the beautiful former monastery. We began with a game to control, if we still remembering the names of each other. I had problems with 3 out of the group, but at the end of this module I knew them.
The main content war the question what health is, and or means.
At first glance the questions seams simple to answer, but as we dived into the presentation and the history of the meaning of the word „health“ it became clear, that the meaning isn't fixed and has changed a lot within the last century.
Talcott Parsons (1951) (Quote freely translated from german by me)
Health is a state of optimal capacity by an individual…
The human wasn't important, just that he fulfills the expectations and to have stamina
Groddeck, german physician , 1910 (Quote freely translated from german by me)
Who is healthy, who is Ill? Only fools are able to distinguish.
Moving on
Within a segment regarding using abilities, that on an ordinary point of view seams unnecessary an example of a dancer was presented. I have seen the Ted talk a couple years ago. I’m loving it.
Purpose was to think, that even whilst we are disadvantaged with our mental illness, we still can do good things for other patients and the society.
Transcript
Starting at 14:50 (the rest of the talk is also highly recommended by me)
I had with a wonderful woman who maybe most people have never heard of, Gillian Lynne. Have you heard of her? Some have. She's a choreographer, and everybody knows her work. She did "Cats" and "Phantom of the Opera." She's wonderful. I used to be on the board of The Royal Ballet, as you can see. Anyway, Gillian and I had lunch one day and I said, "How did you get to be a dancer?" It was interesting. When she was at school, she was really hopeless. And the school, in the '30s, wrote to her parents and said, "We think Gillian has a learning disorder." She couldn't concentrate; she was fidgeting. I think now they'd say she had ADHD. Wouldn't you? But this was the 1930s, and ADHD hadn't been invented at this point. It wasn't an available condition.
People weren't aware they could have that.
Anyway, she went to see this specialist. So, this oak-paneled room, and she was there with her mother, and she was led and sat on this chair at the end, and she sat on her hands for 20 minutes while this man talked to her mother about the problems Gillian was having at school. Because she was disturbing people; her homework was always late; and so on, little kid of eight. In the end, the doctor went and sat next to Gillian, and said, "I've listened to all these things your mother's told me, I need to speak to her privately. Wait here. We'll be back; we won't be very long," and they went and left her.
But as they went out of the room, he turned on the radio that was sitting on his desk. And when they got out, he said to her mother, "Just stand and watch her." And the minute they left the room, she was on her feet, moving to the music. And they watched for a few minutes and he turned to her mother and said, "Mrs. Lynne, Gillian isn't sick; she's a dancer. Take her to a dance school."
I said, "What happened?" She said, "She did. I can't tell you how wonderful it was. We walked in this room and it was full of people like me. People who couldn't sit still. People who had to move to think." Who had to move to think. They did ballet, they did tap, jazz; they did modern; they did contemporary. She was eventually auditioned for the Royal Ballet School; she became a soloist; she had a wonderful career at the Royal Ballet. She eventually graduated from the Royal Ballet School, founded the Gillian Lynne Dance Company, met Andrew Lloyd Webber. She's been responsible for some of the most successful musical theater productions in history, she's given pleasure to millions, and she's a multi-millionaire. Somebody else might have put her on medication and told her to calm down.
Moving on
Then we had a couple of presentations to explain us the words salutogenesis, coping, sense of coherence and Stress.
Out of the topic stress I like to present to you an example that catches me. I like science and experiments.
Source pic
Tupaias (kind of a Squirrel)
These animals have a strong territorial behavior. In the experiment they let two Tupaias fight for a nice place. After the fight is decided, the looser would normally go away and try to search for a place for him alone.
In the experiment the looser is placed in a cage right next to the winner. The fact seeing the winner each day stresses the looser a lot.
On some cases the stress was so high that a couple of the losers passed away.
Sounds cruel I know but the findings in this experiments could help to understand the human stress and why for some people stress is leading to mental illnesses and or suicide.
Another issue that is being tested is insomnia.
Sleeplessness is on many cases start of developing a mental illness.
Moving on
When we where working on the last topic of the module, my strongest and yet not handled trauma was triggered.
I cried 7 hours straight. After the course ended, I went to the triage and crisis centre in my clinic.
I was 5 days there to calm down. The time was very important for me. I learned that the way I am taking in becoming a Peer is the right one. A very good feeling, knowing that I have taken right decisions for my future.
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