Watching crazy hospitals

     It’s awful when doctors don’t hear their patients, as if they were guardians of truth. Even worse when the client‘s life depends on that information. The reality might sound sad, unfortunately, the majority of our psychiatric public hospitals physicians has nothing to do with doctor House’s competence. An entire environment “forgotten” by the government would, of course, result in precocious diagnoses of normal citizens, lack of hospital structure and a barely prepared staff of doctors. Again the humanity’s friend called corruption is present.

Imagine an innocent, being judged guilty and having to accept the consequences of such an injustice. It’s almost the same thing of judging someone, who might have some esquizofrenic symptoms, as totally crazy, then start to administrate haldol to him. This medication is used to reduce hallucination symptoms at the price of accelerating the famous Parkinson’s disease, depression for the time it is being used. Now, this depression is usually treated with electroshocks, when the Parkinson is not induced, however, haldol can induce this symptom. Whenever nurses realize that the patients are depressed they report to these superb doctors, who order them to start the shock therapy. As a result, the patient is drugged and forced to take unnecessary and inefficient electroshocks.

The psychiatric hospitals are not usually located at the same places of regular ones. The main reason is simple, patients with mind disturbs are potentially dangerous to themselves, other patients, and everyone who may be visiting or walking through the hospital’s grounds. Indeed, São Paulo’s public hospitals are in generall well conserved. By the other hand, sanatories are usually very damaged. There was one called Bom Retiro, at Santa Catarina, who has it’s entrance very well conserved, a lot of green areas, some sunpaths and fountains. But inside the place, a terrible smell due to the constipation caused by the haldol on the patients. Separate rooms for each patient, cleaned once per week, with one almost permanently dirty toilet and a bed with a mattress filled with straw. It’s not required much effort to visualize the food gave to those patients at these emprisonment’s days.

The same sanatory had only one pschyatric responsable for the whole contigent. To control the interns, the crew were nurses who had  trainment to control people with disturbs, but not a graduation to effectivelly know what they were doing. Some others sanatories reported deaths due to the wrong admnistration of medicine. One cronic patient suddenly blew out his intestines throught his anus in the middle of the path. Thousands of patients die every year, forgotten by their families, doctors, State.

Some sad information is telling that a huge part of government’s capital invested on health are destined to these kind of institutions. Certainly deal with mental perturbations is a very delicate and complicate task, however , so is to deal with surgeries and massive quantity of going to doctors appointments at public clinics. Corruption is spread on the most nasty areas it could be, merging in a point where pchyatrists don’t even know who really needs treatment.

Old new lesson

           Excitement, fear and satisfaction are some feelings that match with a lot of situations of our lives. Most of these moments has something to do with new experiences. Entering the university is surely a chapter linked to these sensations, it’s all about getting into a whole

Something completely normal for every middle-high class young adult who has barely even reached maturity. Once in a while, the healthy and painful process of growing might be a little more difficult then it seemed before.(before when? maybe if you explore better this “before” you can explain better what you mean) Almost every person with their twenty years should already have (have already) passed for (trough) frustration in relationships, however, something curious is the ability (maybe an other word to describle it better because I think it’s not an ability)) that humans have of “deleting” these lessons and repeat(ing) the same mistake(s).

Such ability rendered bad regressions to(on) my mind. We all know that it’s impossible to maintain deep friendships with a lot of persons for a long time, yet, the happiness and joy (happiness and joy are adjectives very close, maybe you can keep one of them and change the other to make your description “richer”.) of joining a course in the university that you wanted, could be blindful. In fact, by (I would take this BY off) being in the same area that we choosed it’s acceptable to consider very close the kind of interests of our new colleagues with ours, which, by the way, doesn’t mean that necessarily these persons (maybe these persons can be changed by THEY, then your phrase will avoid using PERSONS and PEOPLE to close to each other) will be good people. Well (I think that WELL is to informal to an essay), guess what,(the same comment to guess what) there was our incredible desire to believe in fairy tales covering the reason again. Soon I would discover that all these new best friends would turn to three or four, the majority of the others into something almost like enemies, due to the mutual fake respect that we had for each other and the rest simple colleagues. (maybe you could explain better your feelings. how did they turned almost enemies?)

I’m not meaning all people met in the university in the course, but the first big group formed there (maybe you can take this THERE out) as friends after the firsts weeks of integration. Maybe it could have been a lack of maturity from my part, though I am (was) neither the only nor the youngest who felt this way. Besides, after some reflection of this fact a new way of seeing this (it) was available (maybe you can choose a different word instead of AVAILABLE. this word sounds weird when you want to express a feeling or a new point of view). This situation is quite different from the old high school conflicts (how were the conflicts at high school. maybe you can compare them), now we can see people whose character is in the last period of development, and consequently, might really be bad persons or, at least, really don’t fit with us.

It might not be something that caused many harms or traumas to anyone around our faculty world, but surely it’s a lesson, liking or not, soon most of us is going to work for the first time, better already knowing how to choose who to trust than broking the face. (this paragraph is too long. I think it could be better explained if you divided it in two phrases or more)