so this was taken from the entrance of the hospital. Sisa was taken as a 'psych model' there representing the mentally-ill patients admitted here. Actually it was a big hospital which consist of Pavilions of different sorts of psych patients.They don't look like clinical wards though,but they look like a jailhouse which i can't believe at first sight.well anyway.
We had a tour around the hospital on the second week of our stay there. As what I've said, the patients were classified on each pavilion based on their type of mental illness/cases.
There's even a Shangrila pavilion in the area but no,it's not for the elite! Haha :)) This is a pavilion for teenage boys. There's also another pavilion there in which they used to call it as "the Boracay pavilion". It is where regressed patients(adult patients whose intellectual thinking has regressed into a baby) stay.Since those patients think that they're still in the mother's womb, all of them are naked and mostly are in fetal position in the sides of the room.
Sooo this is our assigned pavilion aka the Chinese Pavilion!! This is were the Chinese men who have schizophrenia are admitted and as what they've said,it is the most calm pavilion among the others--And i kind of agree with that.Because as we toured along the hospital,we saw several patients who are being restrained (male or female)or isolated in a room due to mania. It was terrifying. Although we can never escape from seeing things like that there..seeing the eccentricity of all things. Honestly i was very nervous when we entered the Pav. for the first time.The patients were so eccentric at its finest! Some are naked,some have their own imaginary friends...And when they eat,it's like there's no tomorrow as they can finish 10 cups of rice,dammmn! o_O However, my views on them has changed during our sessions with them. Indeed,you'll never know them once you get familiar to them. Our sessions with them includes a lot of therapeutic actvities like dancing,singing,recreation,entertainments,arts&crafts and more.
Here's a bunch of crayons that we provided for their play therapy.It's actually one of those activities that I got impressed at them :) We played 2 songs (a happy and a sad song) and while it was playing, they need to draw something of what's on their mind then after that we get to interpret their drawings.There was really a meaning behind what they've drawn that time like as for my patient,he drew the Philippine flag because this is something that he usually sees before (he once told me that he often goes to Luneta Park).So yeah, it was neat! :-)
After several of therapy sessions, we had a Socialization Party as a means of ending our interaction phase to our patients. It was kind of emotional to my other classmates since they really got attached with their patients.Well, let alone that they were very nice people! They may act odd but they're nice to talk to. maloloka ka sa mga ginagawa nila,haha! :))
aaand that ends our duty day for the whole schoolyear!
'til then!
**credits to Sophie P. for ze pics :)
