Finding an outlet for your emotions in the drama Psychiatry's "Heart" Features

Finding an outlet for your emotions through drama Psychiatry's "heart" feature

Though they are not actors, they put on plays every week! The Department of Psychiatry at Changhua Hospital of the Ministry of Health and Welfare has been performing weekly psychodramas to allow psychiatric patients to vent their emotions and speak from the heart through drama, and the May 19th performance was the ninth anniversary of the show. What's even more rare is learning empathy from it, raising awareness, healing themselves, and even earning them a quarterly birthday celebration to feast on steak and fondue.

The Department of Psychiatry at Changhua University is the largest psychiatric hospital in Changhua County, and in addition to medication, it also handles a variety of rehab groups and psychotherapy courses. Among them, the weekly psychodrama has become the biggest "feature" of the Department of Psychiatry, and when it's time for the students to enter the rhythm classroom in a line with anticipation in their eyes, the psychologists and functional therapists spread out their arms to welcome them and the students. The psychologists and functional therapists welcome them with open arms, and the trainees warm up their bodies by using action methods to fight for the chance to play the leading role.

Functional therapist Cai Yu-chien said, Changhua Hospital psychodrama group from the Republic of 97 years to lead, most of the patients are patients with disorders of the mind; many of the patients performed their own stories, in the usual never say their inner pain, but in the warmth, supportive atmosphere, but can say that his father has left the world or his grandmother is seriously ill, he could not visit the past, to release the repression of the emotions of the past, and gradually enhance the awareness of each of them. This is the first time that we have seen this kind of thing, and it is the first time that we have seen this kind of thing, and it is the first time that we have seen this kind of thing, and it is the first time that we have seen this kind of thing, and it is the first time that we have seen this kind of thing, and it is the first time that we have seen this kind of thing.

Patient "Tak" said that he lives in the day ward and comes to work every day, and his favorite part is the psychodrama, because he can say what he wants to say to other people, and he can also hear other people's secrets, as if he is exchanging things, which makes him very excited. Patient "Xiaohui" said that the weekly psychodrama has made her, who used to be afraid of contacting people, now like to talk to others about her thoughts and listen to other people's stories.

The head of the Department of Psychiatry, Ding Shuo-yen, pointed out that when he was a physician at National Taiwan University Hospital, he took psychiatric patients to perform psychodrama, which is a kind of group therapy, and by the process of warming up, performing, and sharing, it allows the protagonists to see more about their own situation, the social context and their own roles, and the inner worlds of others. The results have been very good and have helped many of our psychiatric friends.

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