Patch Adams Mental Illness

Whereas Dean Walcott was cold, arrogant, and thought less of his patients and showed superiority over everyone around him.Patch Adams started with Hunter’s adaptation to his chronic mental illness. His self-admittance to the psychiatric ward at Fairfax Hospital was a sign that he went through all of the stages of adaptation and finally reached the acknowledgment and acceptance of his mental illness. Once he found his passion in practicing medicine, Patch went through all of the stages of adaptation again throughout the movie’s events. He was in a phase where he had had the mental illness for a long time and it was making him vulnerable. He showed fear and anxiety when he was first admitted to the hospital. His disorganization was obvious many

He admitted that he was helping people so he would distract himself from thinking about his own demons. He was happy for a while, then got depressed when Carin was murdered and wanted to give up on everything he established with his friends. He finally realized, again, that the answer to his mental illness is helping people. He accepted that it is the only way that would make him sane, happy, and improves the quality of his life along with the patients he was treating. I also think that ever since he started medical school, his coping with his mental illness was mostly

They went through physical, emotional, and financial burdens as any professional caregiver would go thorough, no matter if they were family members or not. And since Patch considered all of his patients as friends and family and tried to be the best resource for them, hence comes the caregiver burden. The book we are studying defines the caregiver burden as “the professional stress syndrome and burnout” (Van Servellen 350). The physical burden was clear when Patch was yawning while he was in Walcott’s lecture. The emotional burden was clear in Patch’s attempts to please everyone, help everyone, and make everyone happy. He was happy, but he was tired and trying to hide it. The financial burden was shown when they ran out of medical supplies and couldn’t help their patients. They didn’t have the money to buy supplies so they decided to steal what they need from the hospital because they didn’t want to disappoint their patients. It was a hard decision to make, but it indicates how big the caregiver burden was for