Many caregivers have been taught to “set a positive mood for interaction” with the person cared for---they have been told that body language and attitude communicates your disposition stronger, than words?
Not only is that flawed its dangerous---especially if your loved one is on any type of antipsychotic drug, suffering current pain, or recent victim of abuse---
Anti psychotic drugs alter the mind to such a degree that they cause (heart failures, sudden death and open the door to every inflection imaginable).
A person under the stress of anti-psychotics cannot socialize, will not respond to touch, and cannot talk---with vision distorted by these drugs any form of physical body language is sure to trigger aggression.
Words the most useful form of caregiving to reassure people suffering confusion, other illnesses, and under the influence of drugs that we are there to help and that we are concerned with their needs. Words, music, sound breaks through the chemical clouds of confusion----helps them reconnect to the familiar sounds of family.
Thx fo carin
klcouncil
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