PATIENT HAPPINESS + UPDATE!

---According to ALL the literature…it ALL points to one thing, ‘’the happier the resident, the better his physical body responds to getting better.’’ Some doctors are even linking that what is wrong with the patient, can be found to have its roots in the psyche. Clearing up the root cause of the unhappiness usually unblocks the cause for the illness. What is wrong in the thinking can be affecting the body in a negative way and be responsible for the condition it’s in. We see that the way a person thinks has much to do with the way he feels.

---This ALL translates into a ‘’happy patient results in a better recovery.’’ We have on the other-side…a more negative response to life making it more difficult to recover. Misery loves company.

---Thinking positive thoughts and the positive affect they have on the body has been known for a very longtime. Confucius even had a quote along those lines thousands of years ago.

---It is important to tell the truth to yourself. The benefits are well worth it. Sometimes the thoughts that we have are pretty negative. That is why it is good to have someone to talk to…to get things off of our chests. We can have two negative people get together at times and realize that the ‘’bond’’ they have created can be very positive. Two negatives can make a positive - and this works in human behavior, also.

---Keep your thoughts positive and you do yourself a favor. If you listen to your body or other nay sayers you may be dragged into the swamps of how your body feels. Honestly...think good thoughts and of good times and you will be doing yourself a world of good. Take Care.

---I would, also, like to add that this applies to a more rapid turnover at the hospital, itself. If folks are made well, sooner...they are more ready to move on to their next step in life (whatever that may be.) Above published 2/2013.

Patient Happiness (update)
written 4/1/17

---Happiness is still the attitude we hope for a patient. The happier that he or she is plays in a big way in favor of healing. If he or she is very receptive + accepting of the whole getting well process…then the whole hospital stay will undoubtedly go smoother.

---As we have stated in the past it is essential for the patient to feel that he has been heard and has been taken seriously in his life. Though this situation is something that applies to all of us…this has direct ramifications to the under served population. It seems that people are Laguna Honda patients directy depending on how much they have been heard or taken seriously in there life. Through lack of encouragement at proper times or being given the respect deserved and needed by all children there seems a certain amount of folks that appear as lost souls (never having been heard or taken seriously.) They are NOT shown much of anything, but are expected to have the correct answers, anyway. Achievement and accomplishment tends to be low. They spend a lot of time trying not to come across as dysfunctional as they feel sometimes. They find they easily get addicted to or use things to excess that end up being detrimental to there well-being...in the long run. 

CLICK TO ENLARGE

---It, also, has been made clear to me that the benefits of having a GROWTH MINDSET is far and away better than the FIXED MINDSET many of the under served population contend with. One realizes that there is more to life than being a couch potato. There is more going on than just worrying if someone will find out how much you know. You will learn how to learn and, actually, know things. One feels part of things as opposed to feeling excluded from things. One has joined the land of the living again. One has a brand new outlook on life and living.  

Upon rereading this piece in Dec., 20, 2020, I was very much replete in what I conveyed. It seems that children at a young age should be encouraged and should be prepared to realize that it is very okay to express yourself and that it is very alright to make mistakes and not be ridiculed for doing that. Trial + error is the way we learn in this life and if one tries to avoid mistakes at all costs, one realizes that he is not going to learn properly. Here is where most people stop AND never learn how to make mistakes AND that mistakes really our our friends in the learning process. 

Making mistakes and learning from those mistakes is very important in the way an attitude or way of seeing things is developed. If one only learns the most clever ways to avoid things and spends time trying to impress others so as to look good, then his learning is going to be shallow and will definitely suffer. Something that happens here is that we devise ways that gets our peers to approve our avoidance technique. We take on an air of superiority that we convey that we are ''too cool'' to know this AND we show how ''cool'' we are by avoiding knowing this. We get our peers to support our unknowingness because we get a few positives AND head nods that support our NOT knowing this and this all seems the approval actually is better than knowing whatever the piece of knowledge. We have shown ''the man'' that we don't have to learn this. He doesn't control us AND it is none of his business whether we learn this or not. He never learns to figure things on his own and worries about how he appears to the rest of us. He mistakes the bravado that he feels as toughness and brawn over brain will reign supreme for awhile. He doesn't dive very deep to get his answers. Diving deep is for losers and he certainly is not a loser. His concerns are, basically with how he looks to others. 

If one learns to dive more deeply and not worry as to what he may uncover at first, he will soon learn to prioritize and how to discern the relevance of what he uncovers, Trial + error learning will hone down the importance of the things he uncovers. The feeling of accomplishment far and away outweighs where he goes with this...AND he will feel much more authentic in the final outcome.

By intervening properly and at age appropriate times, we are hoping to eradicate the need to be admitted to facilities like this in the first place. What is necessary to be learned will be taught naturally as part of the curriculum and not left out because a few people are still uncomfortable with it. If this is learned early on, it makes things easier all-the-way around. Be Well.