I just got certified to teach mental health direct care workers to talk people down and how to safely restrain people when they are still posing a threat to themselves and others and that’s a goal I set almost a decade ago and it’s really taking some time to set in that I actually did it. I went from spending 3 hours on a state hospital floor with my back locked up with EPS after getting twice the normal agitation meds to teaching in under 10 years. What the fuck.

I mean he’s doing better than my parents.

As a psych nurse I tell people “prune the leaves. Take a little off the top. Give a few leaves out at a time. DON’T give out all your leaves at once before any have grown back and for the love of god, NEVER let anyone touch the stalk.”

I bet this actually meant a lot to him. Sometimes it’s hard to remember “oh yeah I’m actually meeting those goals I set years ago.”

I’m still borderline, I still have chronic suicidal ideation, especially when something pops into my head that was dumb even as far back at middle school. But then sometimes I’m like "oh wait remember 10 years ago in the state hospital when you were like “I bet I could do this better” and now you’ve been a nurse for five years and working in mental health for 10 and this job asked if you wanted to be their crisis deescalation teacher for the location and respond to psych emergencies on the med units 6 months in? And one of those nurses says she worries less when you show up? Remember four years ago when you had a psychotic person in restraints who cleared up and wrote you a daisy nomination?

I feel like every once in a while this guy has to be reminded sir, you are an astronaut.

I forget where I heard that the only people the CCP bow to are Coca-Cola. It’s shocking how much of the world they basically own.