Guest Speaker Reflection

Please write a reflection about today's guest speaker, using the following questions as prompts:
--What did you understand from the presentation about PTSD and mental health? What impact did it have on you?
--What did you find the most interesting?/ What surprised you the most?
--What questions or curiosities came up in your mind? What would you like to know more about?
--How do you think experiences like these are beneficial for students?

Length: At least 3/4's (3 quarters) of a page

Ms. Kathleen Allden's or the guest speaker presentation was about PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) or stress disorder after experiencing trauma and emotional disorder that affect usual life. She mentioned about how people will have negative stigma when talking about mental illness, and nobody actually pay attentions to this problem. Ms. Kathleen picked the example from her own experience that she has been treating people with some serious disorders such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, substance abuse, and especially post traumatic stress disorder. The war's refugees are one of the most mentally affected group of people because these people have suffered a lot from the war which Ms. Kathleen treated war refugees before and then came to Thailand treating Cambodian refugees. She explained that refugees in some countries can stay in that country and get treated, feed nicely and also have habitats for them to live in but they cannot work or do anything because they don't have any right to do so which pops up the question in my mind that then why do we still letting these refugees live purposelessly? At least if we let them stay in the country let them do some work and give them salary because having to live on day by day is nothing better than having to keep running away. 

Ms.Kathleen was talk about how is being a psychiatrist  like, how even the doctor can also get sick from what they professionally known about. She explained how being any kind of psychologists herself also have to bear a lot of stress within her head ,when treating a patients she had to responsible for that person's life and well-being .But for me although it's nice to see someone getting better by our help but it's incomparable to having to treat them because to be a good psychologist we need to make a patient's problem into our owns which is so stressful. By this opinion of mine shows that how much Ms.Kathleen has dedicate herself to be psychiatrist treating refugees who has mental disorder .Which this presentation gave a really good information and example for a psychology student like me.