Posted on 04/25/2006 4:52:54 PM PDT by wagglebee
BOURNEMOUTH, Great Britain, April 25, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nurses are pushing for a policy change that would allow patients who cut and burn themselves to keep their blades and other implements with them in hospital settings.
The BBC reported today on the request made by nurses in the Royal College of Nursing. Pointing to a pilot project undertaken by St. George’s mental health hospital in Staffordshire, the nurses say allowing self-harming such as cutting or burning to continue helps patients to deal with past mental trauma and reduces thoughts of suicide.
St. George’s Hospital provides patients with cleaning equipment for blades and other “tools” of self-harm. The project suggests that self-harm as part of a care plan can eventually reduce a patients’ need to injure them self as a way of coping.
They argued that drug addicts are given clean needles and syringes, and said preventing patients from self-harming made the problem worse.
Jenifer Clarke-Moore, from the Royal Collage of Nurses’ mental health practice forum, does not agree.
“My concern is that this is leading us up the garden path,” she said, saying self-harm would be a “cheap-fix solution” to the problem. She said “evidence-based interventions which promote health” would be more effective.
Self-harming can be a symptom of several serious mental health disorders, such as personality, bipolar, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. It begins most commonly in adolescence, often used as a coping mechanism for girls and young women dealing with trauma. The U.S. National Mental Health Agency reports that almost 50% of people who repeatedly injure themselves say they were physically or sexually abused as children.
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As usual, I expect some of our British friends will descend on this thread in 10 minutes and wave that "Nothing to see here. This is just a tiny minority/This is a reasonable policy request. Everyone move along please!"
Every cause has SOMEone who'll campaign for it.
How do satire writers stay in business when the real world appears to be insistent on outdoing them?
Precisely. I don't know how many times I have to check these threads to make sure they aren't from Scrappleface.
The inmates will soon be running the asylum.
LMAO!
You mean there is really a National Association of Marlon Brando Look Alikes?
And just in case anybody thinks LifeSite was kidding, here's the original story at the Beeb:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4942834.stm
Indeed. And they are legion. O_O
I want to see another source on this - this is too insane to be true.... I mean this cant be true.
Totally aside from the morality and that medicine is supposed to help not aisd in harm, what about the liability - do they think "trying to bbe helpful" is gonna save them when a teen with a history of cutting is given a knife so she can cut herself some more - they'll get their pants sued off and they will deserve it.
What, you've never heard of the North American Marlon Brando Look Alikes?
It looks like they already are in places.
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>>No kidding. I first heard about NAMBLA through South Park. A few months later, a girl I know asked me to edit a paper about NAMBLA. My first reaction was: "These guys actually exist?"<<
They are, if anything, eve worse than represented on South Park. They couch pedophilia in arguments about free choice and children's rights... and then have the nerve to have a motto like "Sex before eight or else its too late."
Two earlier threads:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1572266/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1572215/posts
I don't know if you saw this, but here's the link to the BBC story...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4942834.stm
First, thank you both.
I was really hoping this wasn't gonna be true... The world is just a little bit less sane and the end is a lttle nearer.
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