time in a hospital as a psychologist is
will you ask that there is a
psychologist a hospital
maybe it’s very strange that a psychologist
is working in a hospital but yes
one of its main functions is to go
for the hospitalization finding out
what reason the patients are there
besides that it is evident that they have
physical illness as they must also
I have some emotional thing
I found doing that work when
suddenly the directives of the hospital in
Medellin was given to the health team
mental that we will create a strategy for
cater to people who come to
emergencies for suicide attempts and
self-harm that apparently is not what
same when we decided to create that
strategy directives hospital
they had given a figure of 16 percent
of the monthly emergencies were
caused by suicide attempts or
people who know self-hurt
when we started measuring the team of
mental health and I this phenomenon we
we realized that on the 16th the 16th to the 31st
percent the figure went up
measuring it seriously as you
can see is a pretty figure
alarming only for this hospital
doubled in that measurement number of
people who came for this reason to
the emergencies
I do not intend here to tell you how
serious is the social phenomenon the world
because many of you all of you
They will know that it is quite complex but
I just want to show you in this
hospital the alarming figures that
we had when at the time of measuring what
we started to make a strategy
pretty noble
the mental health team to attend
those people that it was about
priority attention during the
hospitalization by psychologist and
psychiatrist
and also their families besides that
they had so to speak right to two
group sessions
after going very well out of the
salt hospitalization cured
can physically attend two
group therapy sessions as well
say it one day he called it the moment
zero because from the zero moment of my
professional career was preparing me
to start the Serbian group every eight
days and we received all those who have
tried to take his life this week
the group was more or less than 15 20
people never ever go down from there that’s
could you imagine how many
people a week to villa with that
condition if 15 or 20 people attended
to this group as he continues to tell
I was preparing to start
that group 10 o’clock in the morning and it arrives
a patient in her father’s arms she
was 14 years old
I knew very well who he was but
He never expects to find her and in a fight
with his mother he had taken
approximately 100 tablets of
acetaminophen will serve to make it
take barely knows anything but in
amounts like those
she had renal failure 22 resuscitations
in intensive care and was during
two months in the hospital when you leave
there his father carried her in his arms as
mount because I had forgotten to walk
for some strange reason there was
decided to be up to date as it is not
fully recovered
I will not deny that it was for me
impossible to maintain the neutrality of 5
look and that time I noticed three
things that I am going to comment on
went out to ask the question back to
you to try to commit suicide
valentina peeping in the eyes that never
I’ll change you changed the name so that
do not be alarmed
and he denied me with his head
fortunately he told me not to
she several people but all said
will never again try
two myths then demystify in
these groups one
anyone who attempts suicide at
will do again
there was not a person in that group that
I said I would do about
all after feeling supported by
an institution like a hospital
2 the subsidy can be can not be
avoid the suicide suicide trial not
It has been heard out there if not already
he thought he already does it I think it’s a
kind of defense of people for
feeling better
if you can not avoid it so that it does
something totally identified these
groups because I absolutely always
they said if I had a person that already
the moment will come that he would have told me
something that gives me a hug
possibly I would not have tried
do what
a third thing that I realized to the
groups and especially at time zero
because the hospital’s strategy was
good
kindly but it was not enough we are
we were arriving late
after leaving that hospital and
created a new category called a
psychological urgency and what I intend
is to equate it with an urgency
biological or the organic body
if you see there are no places to
attend to emotional emergencies and I
I would dare to say that they are the most
lethal that exist maybe I have a
emergency a headache or something or
metropolis a clear car is important
cater for the natural system even
and derived from that I have an impulse to
do something against her or do something
against me that is also a
emergency that merits attention
so my intention is first that
everything return to an emergency
psychological
the value it has
and the importance that deserves for it
then developed through this
category and work and in the house to the
street to any place at the moment
just doing then the
psychology something different that has been the
traditional psychology psychology
traditional egomaniac acid and so or
reagent
we go back to what we did in the hospital
we are arriving later when
there was possibly nothing to do
when I put the damage was done
the people were dead there are for
What psychology there what
psychiatry and for what drugs what
What I intend then is to make a new
psychology going home where are you
wrong in the street where you require and
make a proactive psychology that
arrive before and not after a
psychology that responds to the urgency
of life or death does but that
responds to the urgency primarily a
contextualized psychology you see
psychologists are still working from
the office waiting for the people
take the initiative will go to them
this makes psychologists work
generally with people of the same
characteristics and not so serious because
I can stop getting money and
make very cute for the psychologist or if
so bad or if it’s wrong
so what he wants is to go there
where a depression are more
decompensated a bipolarity is more
confusing a duel is alive and not getting
then when there may not be
nothing to do
Now, look at how I can
help gave a person who is in
crisis because you have to want to commit
a suicide attack but a psychologist
the answer is very simple but very
complex as everything simple is complex
listen but do not listen trying
answer because sometimes
we believe we need in the answer
that the other demands us not to shoot
the answer with which I heard enough
even when you advise and respond
can do more harm than you hear is
just the suicide attempt is two things
basically loneliness and lack of listening
that paradoxically are like the same
if only good and listen to me
If you want to go a little further because
give affection then give him a hug you can
say that knowing you’re there the
tips tell the other that you can
continue badly
paradoxically when we
we advise someone we are giving
more than a consolation we are giving you the
tool to keep you sad and you
it has happened that advice is given and not
it works because if not what you think
that you think you listen is very simple a
listen without pretending to have the answer
because sometimes we do not have it
if not always then I do not know
worry listen help too
it’s no use then having
artificial worries or
academics about the figures of
suicide
if we do nothing to change the
psychological interventions and if not
we tell the other how he can help
thank you very much
[Applause]
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