The light here is amazing at this time of year, We turned the lights off to go to sleep last night at midnight and semi daylight streamed through the edges of the blinds, it truly doesn’t get dark.
What is strange is how it affects you physically. The kids aren’t able to go to sleep until after 11pm, I often don’t feel tired until gone midnight, the other night I found myself gardening at 11.00pm. Would this be described as slightly manic behaviour on the mainland? What is interesting is the kids aren’t acting as if they are over tired & I feel full of energy.
I presume that on the dark winter nights all of us will want to sleep from early evening and catch up on all the lost sleep.
The light is certainly good for Ron’s tomatos. Never thought I would be jealous of a plant but he nurtures and talks to them more than me.
Ron is off to Palestine tomorrow. He will be working in Bethlehem hospital and other health centres on the west bank; unfortunately Gaza is still out of bounds.
Ron is going to be doing more in depth voices training with the staff; next week Dirk Corstens a fantastic social psychiatrist from Holland will join him. They will be doing some training together with the psychiatrists on voice dialoguing.
People are much more open to our ideas there. I wonder if it is because they have very little money to spend on anti psychotic medication so are more open to other forms of treatment.
Last time we were there together and ran a 5-day recovery course making recovery champions with some of the staff from Bethlehem hospital and the surrounding CMHT’s. The staff invests a lot of their personal money and time in gaining good degrees and postgraduate training.
What was truly amazing though was because of the crisis with receiving no eec funding the staff had not been paid for 6 months but still carried on going in to care for their patients, some how I cannot imagine that happening in the UK.
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