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The Peripheral

36: Who Takes Care of Us

The Peripheral

Justin Evans

Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8813 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2017

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

When we lose our grip or have a bad mental health day and need to go somewhere, who takes care of us? On today's episode I speak with Sarah who works in a psychiatric facility and takes care of patients who need a little help - ok, sometimes a lot of help, and Sarah and her staff are there to do the job. She takes us through a typical day and through some of the rougher days. I hope you find this conversation educational and as interesting as I did.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome back everybody. If you're in the Kansas City area or if you feel like traveling,

0:08.0

October 14th, Saturday, about a month from now, Aaron and I will be doing a meetup at the Buffalo

0:15.2

Room at the Westport Flea Market, 817 Westport Road, Kansas City Moe. We start at 1 p.m. in the afternoon, and we're going to wrap it up at around 6 p.m.

0:25.8

So it's a good five hours to hang out with us.

0:28.9

I think we're going to be doing a short talk or episode, and then we're going to just hang out

0:34.6

with everyone that shows up.

0:36.1

This coming Sunday,

0:45.6

listen to a podcast called Continuous Play, or the Continuous Play podcast. I talked with those guys over there about John Carpenter's The Thing. So yes, I have other interests outside of

0:51.9

true crime and other hobbies I like to do. I'll probably throw

0:56.7

out another reminder after their show's released, but it was a pretty good conversation.

1:02.2

On tonight's episode, I speak with Sarah, who happens to work at a psychiatric facility.

1:10.2

She talks about her day-to-day. She talks about the stigmas of the patients.

1:17.2

I thought it was a very interesting conversation. Sheds some light on a part of our society that

1:23.8

we don't like to think about. Shed some light on the caretakers who look after us when

1:31.6

we're not having the best day where our life might have taken a turn for the worse. She's one of

1:36.9

those people that dedicates her life to caring for us. Without further ado, here's Sarah. My name is Sarah. I work at a psychiatric facility.

1:49.4

I've been working here for about a year now. I just graduated from college, getting ready to go on

1:56.0

to graduate school in this field. My bachelor's degree was in psychology and I'm getting ready to get my

2:02.5

master's in forensic psychology. And that's kind of how I got interested in started working in

2:08.0

a psychiatric facility. What's the stereotype of where you work versus reality, I guess?

2:15.2

I think a lot of people get their viewpoints from movies and television and things like that

2:19.9

of these different psychiatric hospitals.

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