Jean Keany A. Lantin
P2A
Chosen Children & Cavite Center for Mental Health:
Starting Experience with Awesome People

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
-William Shakespeare

The children in the Chosen Village are also born great, they also achieve greatness, and most of them have greatness thrust upon themselves and their capabilities. They do have different cases and disorders yet they also have different capabilities that made them a unique individual. Melissa and I handled Michelle who is a wheel chaired bound child and always has a smile on her face. When we try to feed her, she was just looking at us maybe because we are new to her. Yet, we are able to feed her properly and carefully. While looking at Michelle, I noticed that she can understand the things that we are saying or talking about and she also able to understand the gestures and actions that we portray for her to copy it so that she can eat. Though she can’t speak and make some necessary actions, still she can able to communicate with us by responding through copying the actions that we are showing to her. At the end of the session with Michelle, I can conclude that we make her happy and we are able to put a smile on her face. Also, we are able to make her feel that she is special in some ways. The experience in CCMH was a little bit creepy and nervous. It was creepy and nervous because of the place, the ambience and the patients. During the tour in the CCMH, the ward for the females exhibits foul odor. We are also able to interact to the patients mostly females because most of the P2A students are females. We do a little conversation to a female schizophrenic patient and we feel the nervous in our group because the patient is staring in each one of us in the group for a couple of minutes. Slip of the tongue, I suddenly asked