Who put the boys in the club house? You did, baby, you did.
The song Keep a Lid on Things by the Crash Test Dummies sums it up. Psychiatric rehabilitation organisations are often there to simply keep a lid on things (clients behaviour) rather than to get them back in the mainstream of society. Their stated aims are often vastly different from the actual outcomes.
Does the ghetto keep you sick? So it seems. Last year an Australian research team interviewed people who had bipolar disorder, and one of the findings was stunningpeople who did not use psychiatric rehabilitation services tended to stay well longer than those who did*.
If youre coming out of a bipolar crisis, perhaps just out of hospital, its worth questioning the value of rehabilitation. If the only place you go is the mental health clinic, you surround yourself with others who are sick. It becomes comfortable, you make friends, theres no challenge, and you will find over time that you become nervous about venturing into mainstream activities, like ringing up about a job, or going back to your sporting club. The longer you are inside the ghetto the harder it is to break out. Your confidence...
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