(June 11, 2018 at 9:19 am)Little lunch Wrote: Yes, you're absolutely right, but easier said then done, especially when they've forgotten to take their antipsychotics the day before and you're waiting for the new ones to kick in and they're just watching you intently.
I have been worried for some clients around strangers and I try to make it obvious that I'm their carer.
I'm not sure how far my duty of care extends as I'm fairly sure I have to look out for myself first.
There used to be a large psychiatric hospital here that has been partially closed down in the last few years.
Some of my clients had been institutionalised for many years coming straight from jail where they also spent many years.
So they're not really used to normal society.
You've got people this much on the edge and they're in control of managing their medication?
That sounds like a formula for an eventual adverse event.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.