Define : ‘AB-NORMAL’
Right in the third year of my undergrad, this was the very first question that had been asked and discussed about, not only in our Abnormal Psychology classes and books, but also in the final exams.
I’m sure no matter how many years you spend in the profession of Psychology or Psychiatry ( if at all you are attuned to the ‘human’) this is one question whose answers keep changing with time, experience, yet one thing remain s constant – ‘What’s normal and ‘ab’ normal?’
For those who are unaware of how it feels to be in a clinical setup, I’ll just share some bits.. Pls note that experiences differ according to a private or a govt. setup.
In a governmental setup, you’ll see hoards of patients and their family members waiting for their turns to come. They’ll either be sleeping on the benches or holding the hands of the ‘ patient’ so that he doesn’t run away. They got to wait and wait and wait. So here perhaps comes the first lesson of being clinician – BE PATIENT.
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