sassy_emt_angel69

The patient was a 34y/o male .......he was returning home with his mom from college.....while at school he was suffering from bouts of depression and severe mood swings his mom told me were rooted in a childhood diagnosis of bipolar..... I work part time at a local motel at this is where I met him. His mom came to me and said he was stating that he was feeling like" ending it all". As I spoke with her and discussed his back ground she informed me of the bipolar diagnosis but it wasn't until after my back ups arrived that i found out he was a sevant. His word association of color to describe his moods were my first real incicator that maybe it was more ........he would refer to the color red for angry or blue for depressed......if i was quick enough i got hi to use purple for calm......he would begin to ramble and state that his thought were all jumbled and that he wanted to make them stop...he wanted to die....... He was very intellegent...about 75% of the time he was very coherant speaking in full sentences....the rest of the time he spoke in 3-5 word bursts. His over all apperance was good .....very healthy and active male......no allergies....no physical conditions......he stateed to me several times he wanted to make the voices stop.....he had been sying on the second flooor of the motel and had at one point when the responding medic from the local ambulance company was working with me with him asked him a question he turned to the medic and stated..." I am going to jump and I am taking her with me.' Neither one of us saw that comming because he up to that moment was ready to go to the truck and volantarily go for treatment sorry about the miss spelling...juat got off a 10-6 shift and tired.....gotta cat nap for my next shift crotichymedic, I tried that ......he seemed to have moments where he didn't care or just seemed to mentally shut down. The shut down reminded me of an autistic person with aspberger's syndrome.....when they get over loaded emotionally they react the same way. I have first hand experience with this as I have three sons with aspberger's syndrome.

Dwayne, thank you! At 2 in the morning I sometimes miss my spell check button...lol cheryl

I am looking for some advise on a response to dealing with suicidal sevant/bipolar patients....... had a call in wich i dealt with such a patient......what is the best approach to handling such a patient? is there any set way to be able to read these patients and be able to "talk" them "down"? My patient was very scattered in any verbal responses to my questions.....he constantly had a facination with color association and the idea that actions where made in 0.14/secon or faster.......i have dealt with many bi-polar sucidial threats befor but the sevant side is what is throwing me for a loop......

i am a basic from western pa lookng to learn from medics and fellow basics.....