Meet El Pastor Jose Galvan, founder of a Mexican mental asylum where — on the outskirts of one of the world’s most violent cities — the patients are the administrators.
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Meet El Pastor Jose Galvan, founder of a Mexican mental asylum where — on the outskirts of one of the world’s most violent cities — the patients are the administrators.
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He is telling it like it is and it hurts. UK studies say Nidotherapy is an effective caring therapy where sufferers of mental illness are placed in a loving environment.
From WIKIpedia:
” Nidotherapy, after nidus(Latin: nest) is the name of ‘a collaborative treatment involving the systematic assessment and modification of the environment to minimise the impact of any form of mental disorder on the individual or on society’ … The aim of nidotherapy is not to change the person but to create a better fit between the environment (in all its forms) and the patient. As a consequence the patient may improve but this is not a direct result of treatment but because a more harmonious relationship has been created with the environment ”
Maybe the acceptance the sufferers feel for each other instead of rejection,humiliation, failure gives them a quality of life. Maybe even more soul than some of us have.