I have to say that right now that I am so tired and reading about the neuro system is not coming easy today. I am sitting at Ford getting my car services and attempting to read and I don’t think any of it is going to stick right now, so I put the book away.

Today was the first of two mental health clinicals for the semester. We are sitting in on outpatient group therapy. I was in an anger management group this morning and that was fairly interesting. These people all have some other mental illness along with their other issues. I found them to be calm and copperative. Some had some interesting but sad stories. Those sessions were 2 hours in length. Before and after those sessions and during session breaks we mingled with the patients and spoke to them about their illnesses and the
Meds they were taking. (for our assignment which is due in two weeks.)

After lunch I went to a life skills therapy group. These were a little higher function people than the last but not by much. We discussed positivity and
Keeping a positive attitude in the first hour. In the second hour we made valentines day cards with construction paper And little foam stickers, crayons and colored pencils. (a made a silly little one for my husband)

We spent about 15 minutes in post conference talking about our experiences and what we thought about the groups.

To me it was a lot better than being locked in the wards upstairs.

Next hurdle this week. Finish the 4 chapters I started today. I am working all weekend so this may be a challenge.