Hi Bear,
please do me a favour – please please please. If what you said below is true…
I might also add, im pretty lucky when it comes to being put into serious situations, as im able to think straight and go into auto pilot and do what needs to be done…then can you please Mentor me cause im a real slow guy and have no clue on how to turn onto Auto-pilot. How do you do this Bear – ur a classic mate.[biggrin]
“If You never never ask, you’ll never never know”
Geo said : ” ………….. and have no clue on how to turn onto Auto-pilot. How do you do this Bear – ur a classic mate. ?
Geo, this mind frame just happens. What gives you the idea that one ‘does’ it. ?
A shock is usually the cause of ‘it’ happening.
Pisces
Hey Pisces,
I was just spicing things up – everyone was getting all so serious on the forums…
“If You never never ask, you’ll never never know”
Originally posted by geo:Hi Bear,
please do me a favour – please please please. If what you said below is true…
I might also add, im pretty lucky when it comes to being put into serious situations, as im able to think straight and go into auto pilot and do what needs to be done…then can you please Mentor me cause im a real slow guy and have no clue on how to turn onto Auto-pilot. How do you do this Bear – ur a classic mate.[biggrin]
“If You never never ask, you’ll never never know”
Honestly mate if i knew i would bottle it and sell it ….LOL
When I worked with the homeless we were put in the occasional life threatening situation, but for some reason I would just keep it together, but fall apart later that nite when things were quiet at home, but no-one else would ever see that. My colleagues often asked me the same question mate and to be honest I really dont know how to answer it. I guess im just lucky, or unlucky, depending on how one see’s it.
Dont worry their are certain things I cant handle like changing a nappy , heheheheh i get very ill and nearly pass out, but others can do it with out flinching……..LOL
Regards Bear
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DONT MISS OUT!!!!!homeless…wow…tell me more – this is interesting…where and which homeless community was it. What kind of life-threatening situations?
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George.“If You never never ask, you’ll never never know”
Originally posted by geo:homeless…wow…tell me more – this is interesting…where and which homeless community was it. What kind of life-threatening situations?
Regards,
George.“If You never never ask, you’ll never never know”
It is a drop in centre for homeless people in the CBD of Adelaide.
Would deal with discharged mental health patients, people straight out of jail, drug addicts and alcoholics.
Would deal with Drug dealers, brawls, knifes and on one occasion I had to deal with a drug dealer at a physical level and I could feel his gun on the inside pocket of his jacket whilst a colleague was resuscitating a drug overdose and a brawl was going on b/w the dealers friends and the friends of the person of the OD. Police and other emergency services were waiting outside with all the staff except for 2 as we felt we couldn’t allow the OD to be left to die. This would have been the most serious situation whilst working within this community.
Obviously for legal reasons I am not allowed to divulge too much info about these situations.
Regards Bear
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DONT MISS OUT!!!!!WOW……mate that’s an experience you’ll remember for a lifetime…now that is life -touching…you’d have to be so strong willed to deal with that. Did you have to do courses or get training on how to deal with addicts and guys with guns? – I thought only cops and paramedics would deal with that?
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I have done training for counselling, but not for those situations.
When something like this erupts the police are not there, when the ambo and police arrived they waited outside with the staff for the drama to die down and for back up. Once we had it under control the police stormed in and even put myself and my colleague up against the wall. Simple mistake to make as we would dress similar to clients it makes them more comfortable and us more approachable.
Police and other emergency services don’t make a habit of putting themselves into dangerous situations. Looking back on it many hours after I was thinking I was
silly for putting myself in that situation, however, then if the guy died, (which he didn’t) then I would have to have lived with that to. As it turned out it was a happy ending for all concerned, but I often wonder if what I have in these situations is a gift or a hindrance.At the end of the day, I believe most people when put in these sorts of situations would do the same as myself, it’s an adrenalin rush that keeps you going.
Regards Bear
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DONT MISS OUT!!!!!I’d agree with you on that one – it is an adrenalin rush. Its like you were in a Hollywood movie being slammed against the wall.
But the fact that you can look back after all these years and actually see that you have saved lives…wow…forget property investing…you saving lives – preventing him from dying by any means within your power is the greatest accomplishment I perceive there to be…
Regards.
“If You never never ask, you’ll never never know”
Thanks Geo, as silly as it sounds it means alot to people that do this work to be recognised for what they do, we certainly don’t get it from the clients or the employers. It’s very much a thankless job with high turnover.
There use to be a TV show on the ABC called The Wildside, if you have ever seen that you would have a good idea how difficult it can be working in these communities. That show was very realistic to the situations that would occur.
Knowing the ABC they probably have it on video for sale.
Regards Bear
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