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1. Antique oval wall mirror in brass frame. Total frame (with ornamentation) measures 19.5" long and 12.5" wide. From Secret Window on Etsy, $95.
2. Ornately detailed vintage brass frame hand painted in marigold yellow acrylic then sealed with gloss varnish. Frame measurements are 13 by 10 inches. Secret Window on Etsy, $45.
3. Chantilly Vines Mirror (28" x 19") from Anthropologie, $128.
4. Vintage Hollywood Regency mirror. White, carved composite. 32"W 49"H. From Revision Home on Etsy, $750.
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6. Stunning Venetian Mirror (25.5"w x 1"d x 37.75"h) from Wisteria, $229.
7. A reproduction mirror, the Talon hall mirror, is from Classy Mirrors. 26" x 45", $152.
8. Jonathan Adler Queen Anne black mirror ( 26"W x 38"H) from Layla Grace, $595.
9. Scrolled distressed gold leaf mirror (40"W x 32"H) from Layla Grace, $579.
10. Uttermost 33 3/4" High Bronze Terelle Framed Wall Mirror from Lamps Plus, $199.
11. Gold French Style Etienne Mirror in Gold Leaf (57"h x 39"w) from Bella Cottage, $658.
12. Veruca Wall Mirror - Purple 32W x 28H in from Simply Mirrors, $188.
13. One of a kind vintage mirror in distressed gilt (41"w x 2"D x 30"H) from Layla Grace, $990.
14. This antique solid wood mirror was foiled in a mottled silver and gold and finished with clear semi-gloss protective polyacrylic. Measures 21.5" at the widest point and 21" tall. From Fairy Home on Etsy, $89.
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Love them! The Talon hall mirror looks similar to what I call my 'snow white' mirror.
I am so glad that having a sheet of mirror that covers the entire wall from the vanity to the ceiling and corner to corner is no longer the norm. Who wants to see that much of themselves? I have ripped out the wall mirrors out of both of my bathrooms and hung much more appealing oval mirrors. They make the bathrooms feel calmer.
@highlander403: so true! Brutal to wake up to seeing your entire body and face in all of it's glory!
I've got one similar to #2.
#2 looks a lot like my Ung Drill mirror from IKEA: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40213759/
Nice collection you put together there! Howard Elliott's custom paint program can provide colors that really pop. Case in point the Purple Veruca Wall Mirror. Your readers may want to know that many other glossy colors are available on that particular mirror and others. In fact, we sold a Veruca Mirror today in Hot Pink!
What LYONSTILL said. The original medicine cabinet mirror in my circa 1915 apartment is hazy and spotted. I bought a horrible fake-bronze, plastic-frame mirror with a lovely floral pattern at Sal Army for $1.69. 2 tubes of craft paint to match the aqua and grass green on the shower curtain. Lively punch of color! Hung it right over the existing mirror.
@PoeticFrenzy, how did you hang the new mirror over the old medicine cabinet? Somehow I don't think Command strips are going to be the answer here.
@KMK355 -- creative low-tech... There's a picture hanger with "teeth" on the back of this mirror. I screwed two small eye-hooks into the wood on the inside of the medicine cabinet door, then looped a string through each of the eye-hooks and around the hanger-teeth. Tied the knots on the inside of the cabinet. The string is thin enough that the cabinet door can still latch closed. I also put cork strips on the back of the new mirror's frame so it doesn't bang against the mirror in the medicine cabinet when I close the door. The new mirror happens to be about the same size as the medicine cabinet door. And, it's not very heavy.
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BestBuy prices too low?? Far from it since Amazon 99% of the time beats them on what little "exact" models/products BestBuy sells. Of course, I could drive to my local BestBuy and out of the graciousness of their hearts IF it's the same exact model number (rarity) they will match Amazon/etc. prices? SO, all I have to do is burn my gas, wear on my car, and fight traffic to get SAME deal I can from comfort of my pc chair off online retailers? On two occasions I called Amazon customer service letting them know "BestBuy" was going to price match what I was interested in. Their reply: "Mr. H____ we will give you an additional $10.00 off.."
BestBuy (catchy name far from truth) can not compete with online retailers; due to the large overhead on its building and its labor force (pushy kid in blue) trying to sell you every known accessory for what you may purchase while reciting a memorized/scripted sales pitch. Please keep in mind a multitude of BestBuy "leaders/MVPs" also led Ultimate Electronics and Circuit City...right into bankruptcy. After BestBuy folds that is going to look quite impressive on a resume/interview. "Well I am a great leader with management experience...uhhh yeah I led Circuit City...Ultimate Electronics too...and I was an outstanding leader at BestBuy ." In translation it means: "I am a three time loser wanting to financially pillage and rape your company next."
Retail itself is a dirty, and cutthroat business; especially at BestBuy. Promotions are routinely based upon who you know, and not what you know; however if you have knowledge of the "right" kind it may override the usual norm of promotion. General managers often surround themselves with kids who are of no threat while getting rid of any employee who has the knowledge and talent to challenge them. It is not called "Retail Hell" as a joke.
As we approach the holiday season notice all the positive propaganda concerning BestBuy? I know I better be careful, since BestBuy is one of Microsoft's "bread n butter companies" that sell Windows based devices/Microsoft products; hence this upbeat article. It is to manipulate people into still shopping with them, so you can be sold an almost worthless Black Tie Protection plan that is used 1/10 of the time LOL. After recently viewing bestbuy.com I noticed a pattern. They are not even selling the latest technology, but it appears as if they are just trying to "dump" their current inventory.
I would be extremely cautious of so called BestBuy Black Friday deals. Usually, they consist of tvs, etc. that did not sell well throughout the year. In addition, they are infamous for special ordering lower quality notebooks, etc. for Black Friday blow out limited quantity sales. Furthermore, like it has already been posted beware of those great prices on HDMI cables at your local BestBuy. There is an old saying, "if it sounds too good to be true...it probably isn't."
The brick n mortar Black Friday chaos is almost upon us and I am so glad Amazon/other online retailers rolled out early Black Friday deals! ALL my shopping is done and I did it from comfort of my home without even having to leave my driveway. I truly got the "bestbuys."
Who am I you may ask? How do I know so much about BestBuy internal "affairs?" I am former "special" employee 558955 turned author. I am near completion of my unauthorized book, which involved legal consultations to insure I have not gone beyond any legal limits. If you desire to discover how BestBuy really works you may find my soon to be proofread/published/released book quite interesting, "Behind The Doors."
I don't really agree with this article. I think Best Buy deals are far more expensive than what you see on Amazon. My husband and I are avid Amazon shoppers. I have yet to save money through Best Buy to be honest. Amazon is the way to go and many people are realizing that, including the Amazon Prime members who get their product in the mail within 2 days with free shipping. Most people are more concious on how much their spending at this time thus their willing to wait just 2 days before getting that cardboard box in the mail.
Best Buy...rarely is the best buy you can get.
Their geek squad didn't even get an install correct when I bought a computer there about 10 years ago.
I learned how to do it all myself shortly after that...just so I could.
Also self-taught to repair my own computer software,hardware,and everything else possible.
NO, prices aren't too low...but they are now very competitive and superior to outlets they didn't use to be. 3 years ago, you couldn't possibly buy a computer or tv from Best Buy cheaper (and same quality) than Wal-Mart, Target or K-Mart....
NOW, the quality at those locations isn't normally on par, and when it is, it appears Best Buy has as good or better pricing, and financing and better service and support....The only catch I've seen is that you can't layaway at Best Buy, and at SOME of the Big Box retailers, you can.
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I cannot imagine that 10 minutes passed from the time it first appeared online to the time my phone rang early this morning. The New York Post had published a (now controversial) cartoon depicting two police officers that had shot a monkey — one of them quipping, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill."
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For the better part of the past seven years, my colleagues and I have conducted research on the psychological phenomenon of dehumanization. Specifically, we have examined cognitive associations between African Americans and non-human apes. And the association leads to bad things. When we began the research, we were skeptical of whether or not participants even knew that people of African descent were caricatured as ape-like — as less than human — throughout the better part of the past 400 years. And, in fact, many were not. However, even those who were unaware of this historical association demonstrated a cognitive association between blacks and apes. That is, when they thought of apes, they thought of blacks and vice versa — when they thought of blacks, they thought of apes.
But the fact of this cognitive association was not the most disturbing part of the research. Rather, it was the fact that the association between blacks and apes could lead to violence.
In one study, participants who were made to think about apes were more likely to support police violence against black (but not white) criminal suspects. The association actually caused them to endorse anti-black violence. Most disturbing of all, however, was a study of media coverage and the death penalty. Looking at a sample of death-eligible cases in Philadelphia from 1979 to 1999, the more that media coverage used ape-like metaphors to describe a murder trial (i.e. "urban jungle," "aping the suspects behavior," etc.) the more likely black suspects, but not white suspects were to be put to death.
Not surprisingly, black suspects were much more likely to be described in ape-like terms. And they were more frequently executed by the state.
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The Hawaiian Petrel, also known by its Hawaiian name ʻuaʻu (pronounced oo-A-oo) is an endangered species and its largest known nesting colony is located at the top of Mount Haleakalā. For more information on the Hawaiian Petrel, click the link below for a PDF document.
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ʻUaʻu are migratory seabirds. They fly over land at night and are believed to navigate by stars. These, and other seabirds that fly at night, sometimes become confused by lights. The seabirds fly around the lights, become tired and fall to the ground.
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The Hawaiian Goose, also known by it's Hawaiian name nēnē (pronounced nay-nay) is another endangered species that nests at Haleakalā. For more information on nēnē click on the link below.
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Nēnē are flying around neighborhoods on the islands of Maui and Moloka'i.
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You pass through as many ecological zones on a two hour drive to the summit of Haleakalā as you would on a journey from Mexico to Canada.


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Two stories hit this week about a bionic eye. Since I a almost confused the two, I thought I'd do us all a favor and detail both of them in one post.
The first story, which hit yesterday, is about a 73-year old man (above) who has had a very minute part of his vision recovered. 30 years ago Ron lost his vision due to etinitis pigmentosa. Now thanks to an American company, Second Sight, he can now make out flashes of colored light and dark. The eye, which is called Argus II is in fact a tiny camera and video processor mounted to a pair of glasses that sends the captured info to a sensor affixed to Ron's eye. He's is just one of 18 patients taking part in Second Sights experimental bionic eye.
The other story is about an aspiring filmaker who lost one of his eyes in a childhod accident. Appropriately, dubbed the Eyeborg Project it involves a photographer/engineer, a team of ocularists, inventors and engineering specialists. Unlike the previous story, the team has no plans to help blind people recover their vision, at least not yet. In fact, they've created a prosthetic eye that features a built-in CMOS sensor that measure just 1.5×1.5mm big. Built into the cameras is a tiny RF transmitter that wirelessly sends the cameras captured contents to a video recorder placed in a backpack. The team is currently creating a film documenting their experiencc living with a bionic eye.


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With its ranks swollen to roughly 70 members, Baltimore's most popular water-ballet troupe, Fluid Movement, has four shows slated for the Patterson Park Pool this weekend.
"Moby Dick, or the Water Ballet" is the concept of Ted Alsedek, a member of the troupe and an English teacher at Calvert Hall College High School.
Founding member Valerie Perez-Schere notes that all scripts and adaptations are created by Fluid Movement members.
"It's not like there's a clearinghouse where you can buy water-ballet scripts," she says.
"Moby Dick, or the Water Ballet" has five scenes and a finale, all of which, according to Perez-Schere, evolve in an organic collaboration between the producers, director and the swimmers in the pool.
"Each scene kind of owns its own part of the show," she says.
"Moby Dick, or the Water Ballet" is based on Herman Melville's classic novel of whaling, adventure and obsession. Perez-Schere notes that the troupe has stayed faithful to the original material.
"We read the whole darn thing," she says. "We do service to the book. It's comedy, but it's not pure mockery; there's also adoration."
She is exceptionally proud of the troupe's effort this time, in its 12th annual show.
"We plant the seed and then it kind of grows," she says, explaining the process of creating a water ballet. "What we get is what we get. This time, we got a truly fantastic show, not just cutesy or relying on our 'yuk-yuk' value."
Fluid Movement is offering four showings of the musical at Patterson Park Pool this weekend. On both Saturday, Aug. 3, and Sunday, Aug. 4, the show will start at 5 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10, $5 for city pool pass holders, and are available at the door and at brownpapertickets.com.
Perez-Schere says that every performance includes the same line:
"We are Fluid Movement, and so are you."
The water-ballet troop is truly a community operation, she emphasizes, noting that a new member this year is doing water-ballet for the first time in her 70s.
"We don't turn anyone away," says Perez-Schere. "We'll even loan you a flotation device if you can't swim."
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Although research findings point to the importance of leisure activities for people with severe mental illness, there is no research into the specific effects of holiday trips. This Open Forum describes the experience of going on holiday trips for people with chronic mental health problems in the Netherlands. A qualitative research design was used. Material for the research was collected by participant observation on two trips and in-depth interviews of 11 travelers and four psychiatric nurses who accompanied the travelers. The trips contributed to rehabilitation by promoting and supporting, among other things, community participation, social relations, skill development, and new perceptions of identity. The trips also helped travelers to maintain balance in everyday life. For the nurses the trips provided a learning environment outside of medical institutions. (Psychiatric Services 58:262-265, 2007)
Dr. Pols is affiliated with the Department of General Practice, Amsterdam Medical Centre, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands (e-mail: email@example.com). Dr. Kroon is with the Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction, Trimbos Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Leisure is defined as time that is not structured by employers, family members, or by self-care needs (1,2,3). The scarce research into the experience of leisure for people with chronic mental health problems indicates that this area of interest is overshadowed by the more common clinical focus on treatment and stability of illness.
However, this specific group gains much satisfaction from engaging in leisure activities (4) and spends a relatively large amount of time on leisure activities (5), which have great potential to improve quality of life (5,6,7). At the same time, leisure is one of the key areas of dissatisfaction for them because they lack possibilities to spend this time in ways that are meaningful to them (8,9). Previous studies on leisure have examined all types of leisure activity together.
This Open Forum describes the experiences of people with chronic mental health problems on holiday trips that were organized by a nonprofit travel agency in the Netherlands called Radar Reizen (Radar Travel in English). The travel agency regards leisure travel as an activity that allows users of mental health care services to participate in a typical community activity. Holiday trips tend to be viewed with suspicion from a clinical perspective, because of the assumption that that these trips may interrupt carefully established routines of care and may exacerbate symptoms.
Radar Travel organizes day trips and holiday trips for people in the Netherlands who are registered as users of mental health care services. Travelers pay for the trip, although part of the expenses related to the support provided by a team of psychiatric nurses is funded by their health insurance. Radar Travel employs three psychiatric nurses and 25 volunteers, ten of whom are psychiatric nurses as well. Apart from Radar Travel, there is only one small travel agency for this specific group in the Netherlands.
In our study we explored three questions. What are the travel experiences of people with mental health problems? What conditions need to be fulfilled in order to have successful trips? And how do these trips contribute to the general aims of psychiatric rehabilitation?
Because there is no literature on this specific subject, we opted for a qualitative research design. Participant observation took place by one of the researchers (JP) on two trips. The first trip, which took place in August 2004, was to a holiday cottage in the Netherlands. Seventeen travelers who were aged 35 to 82 years and two psychiatric nurses went on the trip, which lasted eight days. Excursions were improvised and were not obligatory. The second trip, which took place in September 2004, involved a 24-hour bus ride to a hotel on the Costa del Maresme in Spain. Twenty-seven travelers who were aged 23 to 85 years and four psychiatric nurses went on the trip, which lasted ten days. Excursions were voluntary.
The travelers we studied included residents from psychiatric hospitals and sheltered housing as well as people who lived independently. Radar Travel's policy requires that no information about diagnoses was obtained before the trips. Impressionistic evidence indicated that a broad range of diagnoses were represented, most prominently schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder. Travelers were informed about the presence of the researcher and the aims of the study. They were explicitly given the opportunity to refuse their cooperation. Observations were recorded daily in detailed field notes, which were anonymized and discussed with fellow researchers.
Four psychiatric nurses connected to Radar Travel were interviewed in depth. The interviews lasted between half an hour and one-and-a-half hours. Eleven travelers were interviewed in depth: eight of these travelers were interviewed two to three months after the trip and three traveled with the agency at least once a year. Informed consent was sought through Radar Travel and by selecting spontaneous volunteers to be interviewed from the trips. The respondents were asked to report their experiences, both positive and negative, as well as the significance of the holiday trips in their lives after returning home. Variety in the respondents was sought regarding age, sex, and holiday experiences (theoretical sampling). The interviews were tape recorded, anonymized, and transcribed verbatim. The interviews were in Dutch and were translated by the authors. Names listed in the quotes below are not the interviewees' real names.
For the analysis we ordered the material according to the reported and observed positive experiences of the travelers, the conditions for successful trips, and problems to address in the future. Drafts of the research report were discussed with four fellow researchers and with staff from Radar Travel.
Persons interviewed indicated that that they considered "going on holidays" part of ordinary life. In 2004, 81% of the Dutch population went on a holiday trip (10). To the travelers, being able to go on holiday trips marked a step in their recovery.
One traveler said, "I used to go away for a short time every year, if at all possible. But this [traveling] is something I took up again only recently, since I am doing better. And if you are doing better, you also want to do these things again."
But why do these travelers use a specialized travel agency? For most travelers this was a simple question: they either used this agency, or they did not travel at all. People were anxious about going on vacation without support or were afraid that they would feel like they were "the odd man out" on regular trips.
A traveler said, "When I went with that regular travel agency, I had to explain why I use medication. I told them, 'I have schizophrenia.' [They said,] 'What is that?' I said, 'This is that you think there is a war going on, you have delusions.' And they don't quite understand that. With Radar Travel you don't have to explain. You just say, 'I have schizophrenia.' 'Oh, I have manic depression.'"
Despite the absence of care plans or rehabilitation methods, the holiday trips turned out to support psychiatric rehabilitation aims in important ways. First, the trips resulted in an increase in skills in establishing and maintaining social contacts. This is an important goal in psychiatric rehabilitation that is relatively hard to achieve. Group holidays allow for a variety of forms and intensities of social contacts. Some participants appreciated the opportunity to engage in easy and superficial contacts. Others made friends, kept in touch after the trip, and even visited each other afterward. There were a few romantic affairs as well. Other travelers planned a yearly trip together.
The trips also had an impact on relationships at home. Sending postcards or bringing back souvenirs reinforced existing relations. For example, one traveler said, "In the café [back home] people ask, 'Jane, when will you be off for your next trip?' And then you send them postcards. The woman from the flower booth gets a postcard. One time, I was so silly. I was in Czechia, and I sent 60 postcards, because it was ridiculously cheap—it was 25 cents for a card. I wrote to everyone in my list of addresses. It is so much fun! You keep contact; you write to all the people."
Coming home with travel reports had a positive influence on the self-esteem of participants. Travelers were able to talk about themselves in a positive way, without discussing problems, health care, or worries.
One of the psychiatric nurses said, "It gives them a sense of self-esteem, because they have something special to discuss. And before that, it was always the family that went on trips, and it was they who had the pictures. And they did not show them, because 'that would be sad for the son, because he cannot go.'"
The trips also allowed people to reconnect. For example, a married couple went along on one of the trips. They explained that they were not able to live together, but the holidays allowed them to be together, if only for a week.
The second achievement related to general rehabilitation aims is the influence of these trips on the ability to maintain stability in daily life. Most respondents talked about the very structured and disciplined lives they were living.
One traveler said, "Holidays also imply freedom. My daily life is very structured. My voluntary job four times a week is very structured as well. And in my home, all the domestic duties also bring a lot of structure with them. [It's good] to leave all of that behind for a while, to see other people and things, to get out of this situation of discipline—for a change, to broaden your horizon, to see that there is something outside your home. There is so much you do as a routine."
The focus on one's own worries and daily activities is common in this group, and it helps patients to stabilize their daily lives. However, the trip allowed them to shake off this structured life—albeit temporarily. But the time out also allowed them to return to their normal routines, this time with a fresh perspective.
A traveler said, "I am in daycare. And then it is really nice to be able to travel once or twice a year. Otherwise, everything is so empty. It's all the same. It is a way to get out of the rut. You can notice when a person has been on a trip, because he or she is much more cheerful than an ordinary person. I get inspiration to do things. I clean the house. I do a lot of things."
The holiday trip also provided the opportunity to engage in different behavior and to experiment with social roles. One could be a tourist, a connoisseur of other cultures, or a hiker. Travelers developed skills that they had not often used in daily life, such as speaking foreign languages, using organizational talents by preparing a goodbye party, plotting routes on maps, or collecting information about the new environment on the Internet. This provided them with memories to cherish and gave them the opportunity to develop skills and possible repertoires of behavior, which aided them in imagining different lifestyles.
For example, one of the travelers enthusiastically related how when the group of travelers saw a house for sale on a Spanish boulevard, they began talking about how they could buy it and return every year for a holiday. They brainstormed how they could ask for support from the Spanish mental health care system and sell souvenirs on the boulevard to earn some money.
It is unlikely that this scenario will actually occur, but imagining such alternative futures is important. It can put one's daily life in a new perspective and allows for reflection on daily routines. Discussion of such scenarios can indicate possible directions for development—again a common theme in psychiatric rehabilitation.
Finally, holidays meant an enrichment of life because of the enjoyment they provided. With passion the travelers ate different food, slept in, spent money on souvenirs, and sat in the sun, scarred arms uncovered.
One of the difficulties that many travelers mentioned was dealing with days that were unstructured; this required some initiative on the travelers' part, because some of the travelers were not used to a lack of structure in their lives. For the psychiatric nurses, the organization of these holiday trips led to their having to balance travelers' free time and time organized by others (freedom versus care). On one hand, the psychiatric nurses wanted to grant the travelers the freedom to enjoy their own time in ways that the travelers preferred. Leisure time is not meant to be structured by professional caregivers with therapeutic aims. From this perspective, the psychiatric nurses did not want to structure too many activities for the travelers, so as to not patronize them. On the other hand, the legitimacy of Radar Travel lies in the support offered during the trips. If there were no support, people would not travel or they would not be able to properly manage themselves and their care during the trip. From this line of reasoning the danger is not to patronize people, but rather to neglect them.
Generally, support was needed with managing medication and money in addition to brief counseling conversations. But the most important work of psychiatric nurses was to prevent problems from arising by stimulating some individuals while slowing down others and to induce a feeling of safety by just being there. However, in one instance, problems arose that required the psychiatric nurses' expertise. In Spain one of the travelers experienced a psychotic episode and another wanted to go home before the end of the trip. Every traveler was insured for such an occasion. A local psychiatrist evaluated the situation and decided that the two had to return home with the guidance of a psychiatric nurse sent from the Netherlands. However, the fact that the trip might end abruptly seemed to be a calculated risk for the travelers.
One traveler said, "Well, yes, there was some turbulence. But I thought, 'This is what may happen.' That is how I think. 'Next time it's me,' so to speak. I don't worry, especially because they were all mentally ill people."
For the psychiatric nurses, guiding holiday trips was an important learning experience. As one psychiatric nurse said, "For me it is an essential part of my professional development. You go on a trip with people you don't know, not bothered by medical histories or prejudices. You don't have institutional rules or treatment goals. It makes you think about the way you want to relate to your clients. It happens so often that you take responsibilities out of the hands of our clients, and here you see that people manage all right. I think every psychiatric nurse should do it by way of education."
Mental health research has neglected to investigate the influence of holiday trips on the mental health of individuals with psychiatric problems. Nevertheless, these trips support goals that contribute in important ways toward reaching psychiatric rehabilitation goals. The trips helped travelers establish and maintain social relationships. Going on a trip meant participating in an activity that is undertaken—and talked about—by most of the Dutch population, thus providing positive subjects for these persons to discuss with others. Slumbering creativity and talents were developed, and possibilities in life were reflected on or experimented with. At the same time, the holidays gave this group a break from routine, so they were better able to keep up the discipline needed to maintain stability in daily life. These are all matters that are important in psychiatric rehabilitation.
However, the trips differ from rehabilitation as we know it because there were no methodical approaches or goal-oriented individual programs. The goals attained were not predefined or the object of systematic intervention, but rather stemmed from voluntary and motivated actions.
For the psychiatric nurses these trips turned out to be valuable experiences because they allowed the nurses to experiment with different ways of relating to persons with psychiatric problems who were similar to those who they treated or supported professionally. On these trips, the psychiatric nurses were not familiar with a person's history of treatment. Balancing providing care and allowing freedom on these trips provided the nurses with new ways to reflect on their work.
Because of the qualitative design, it was not possible to generalize our findings in a straightforward way. Because we did not collect data on the characteristics of individual travelers and did not use an experimental design, the study did not allow us to draw conclusions about which groups might benefit most from holiday trips. The only significant selection criteria applied by the travel agency was that travelers received long-term mental health care and that they went on these trips voluntarily. Our study demonstrates the richness of possible meanings of holiday trips and how the trips are linked with rehabilitation goals that are very hard to realize in an institutional setting. The results should be seen against a background of diminishing opportunities for travel for these patients, because mental health care institutions no longer organize trips. Furthermore, rather than celebrating trips as a demonstration of return to a more normal life, as the patients did, clinicians tend to be wary of the stress and the possible exacerbation of symptoms that holiday trips may cause. By traveling with these patients and hearing their stories about the trips, we were able to sketch the contours of an original and promising new practice in the rehabilitation of people with long-term mental health problems.
The research was funded by Fonds Voor Maatschappelijke Initiatieven, Provincie Overijssel, Stichting Radar, Provincie Gelderland, Provinciale Patiënten Consumenten Federatie Gelderland, Vrienden van de Zwolse Poort, de Cliëntenbond, Belangenorganisatie Cliënten Geestelijke Gezondheidszorg, Anoiksis, Stichting Borderline. The authors thank their colleagues Marja Depla, Ph.D., Ingrid Baart, Ph.D., Jacomine de Lange, Ph.D., and Nicole van Erp, M.A., for their comments and suggestions.
The authors report no competing interests.
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