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About Seans121

Seans121 started this conversation
Sep 18, 2008

Hello-

 

My concerns are few, yet financial worries seem to crowd my mind. Personal savings are a worry, the cost of home improvement is a worry, the cost of bills infringe upon my income. My goals aren't of fame and fortune, I wish only to survive with the basics covered. I have a limited income, yet I've a full time job which will last for many years to come (I work for the State of Colorado, department of Institutions). 

 

With the cost of living rising as we speak, making ends meet is a concern of mine. I don't have a perilous story of injury or illness and I've not fallen behind on my financial responsibilities, yet the cushion between current levels of savings, income and costs for living is growing thinner. 

 

Perhaps there are those within the community who can offer a grant for a fellow American to live as one should...with the security that most Americans wish for, yet have an obstruction toward attaining (present economic climate included).

 

thank you,

 

Sean McCaffree

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Seans121
Oct 7, 2008
 in response to Curley...   

Hi Curley-

 Psychiatry is an interesting field to work in...because the residents I work with are really wonderful...yet they often fall off the world once in awhile (psychotics and paranoid schizophrenics have the luxury of going other places...albeit only in their heads). The chore on our side is to be sure nothing harmful is done while they're away. Even though there's the inevitable disappearance there's also the numerous roadblocks which occur in their thinking process...i.e. the old way of coping with the demands of the situation have evolved into something new and wonderful. It's nice to see the evolution take place, although it doesn't occur the next day, and takes time to do. The double wammy of mental illness and developmental disability often serves as a great stumbling block to progress, progression in developing new thought patterns.

My spiritual development seems to have hit a plateau as I get to see these folks on a daily basis. So I'm getting myself stuck in a rut along with them, yet I seek a sort of "re-structuring" of my beliefs, seeking to move in a different direction. Along with the rut is the idea that something exists out there which will help me more that working in the field of psychiatry...something less of a drain.

 

Sean

 

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