Meeting the Residents more.

Founded by Dr. Randy Dellosa,Life Change Recovery Center (LCRC) is a psychiatric facility and rehabilitation center for people suffering from schizophrenia, depression, addiction, and other unmanageable behaviours. It is located at #105 Scout Rallos Street, Brgy. Sacred Heart, Kamuning, Quezon City.

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  Day 31: February 15, 2010; Monday

 Although Love Week is over, Love is still in the atmosphere, because we did the awarding for the Best in Costume this morning before the session. hindi pa din maka-get over yung ibang residents sa Valentine Program last Friday.

By the way, the theme for this week is Life Mapping. When I think of Life Mapping, parang parehas lang naman siya sa Finding Meaning in Life. Ang hirap pa niya maisipan ng activity. Buti na lang merong SLE sila Mary and Kalya na leader for this week, then we picked Dotty Drawing as the main activity for the morning session. During the activity, we were assigned again per table. Napunta ko sa long table with only two female resident si Stepmother ni Snow White at si Snow White (i get the code names from their characters in the Valentine Program, :)). I remember my experience with the wind chime activity kung saan 2 female residents din yung na-assigned sakin. It was so much alike lang talaga kaya naalala ko. Si Snow White tuluy-tuloy lang sa paggawa at pagsulat ng mga goals niya while si Stepmother ay kinailangan pa ng sobrang encouragement para isulat yung mga goals niya sa buhay. Paulit-ulit niyang dinadahilan na matanda na siya, wala na siyang goals sa buhay.  Had to remind her always that her goals must be SMART. At the end, she had written din naman kaso it was too general. This particular resident was the same residents in the Hakuna Matata Group who kept complaining na hindi niya kayang sundin yung mga steps namin at nahihirapan siyang iabsorb sa utak niya yun, again, dahil sa matanda na siya. I personally had given up to this resident, kasi ayokong mahatak niya ko sa pagiging negative niya. And I believe na tama din naman yung ginawa ko, no one can help herself except her own self. 

For the afternoon session, we had Blinded by Money as the main activity. The residents had to drop the coins covering their eyes to the palanggana. Para magkaroon naman ng thrill yung activity, naglagay kami ng mga weights nila sa aerobics sa buong paligid ng hall, once na ma-knocked down nila yun, they had to start again. The activity was fun kahit na yung iba nahirapan sa pagpunta sa palanggana kasi paulit-ulit nilang natutumba yung mga weights. During this period, napansin ko na nagiging close na yung 2 male resident, si Big Brother at yung bagong resident. Although it is good to see na nagkakaroon ng friend yung bagong resident, I noticed recently na hindi nagiging maganda yung influence niya sa Big Brother, kasi the Big Brother is being negative recently. Haay. Siya pa naman favorite resident ko.