Sunday 28 February 2010

Your Votes

In response to the question:- should a relaxation audio track be put on this blog so any one can down load it and use it for free?

Your responses.
Number of votes cast 37 so far, that does not include those of you who voted twice. They were yes votes so thanks but in the interests of accuracy I thought I would only let you vote once

Number of Yes votes 32 = 86.5%

Number of Maybe votes 5 = 13.5%

Number of No votes 0

Thanks for your interest and support hope you had fun voting. I better get to work and figure out how to do this. Keep up the good work.

Thursday 25 February 2010

well done you!

This lady wanted to remain anonymous but I just have to do this. I want to give her a score. A one to ten on an A.L.G.E.E . score. If you want to know what A.L.G.E.E. is then do the course.
For A. I give here 90%
For G. I give here 98%
For L. I give her 80%
For E. I give her 90%
For E. I give her 60%
Over all sore on the ALGEE scale of a possible 500 she scores 418 that’s 84%
For a first go, that is amazing, well done you!
Yes I did check if she was ok with the scoring thing 

I think I did ok

I was leaving work today and I passed a man who was very quiet and seemed to be shivering. The weather had been cold but now it was warmer. I wondered why he was shivering. I went back and talked to him. (engaged in conversation) I simply asked him if he was cold and he said no.
I thought why would someone be shaking like that and breathing how he was. I remembered the mental health first aid course and the panic attacks. He was upright and quite lucid I was sure he wasn’t having a heart attack. I talked to him some more. I noted that he was breathing too fast. He told me that he kept thinking of terrible things that might happen. I was sure he was having an anxiety/panic attack.
I reassured him I reassured him very well, I was sure what was going on, I told him about anxiety and adrenalin and how it can affect the body. We talked and talked. I asked him if he would try the breathing exercise the one armed seagull. He agreed. We did that and we did that for a long time. And we talked after 20 minutes or so of talking and trying to get his breathing normal things improved. I think the talking and distraction along with the breathing worked very well.
After half an hour of so he was much better. I told him that this was very common and that his GP could help. I said he should go and tell his GP about his.
I had to go but told someone near that he had just had a big fright and could do with a friendly ear. When I left him he was chatting to this woman. That is all I did, I think I did ok.