Dangerous Physical inactivity to our health in IMH Wards

Dangerous Physical inactivity to our health in IMH Wards 12/7/2012 Thursday 9:36pm On the 7/7/2012 Saturday 4:01pm, SN Jeslin Tan Chun Hua gave an education talk amongst some patients on Healthy Lifestyle. People need to be active to be healthy. Physical inactivity is dangerous to our health. Contribution to inactivity *Sitting around in front of television/computer. *Riding in a car *Using elevators Physical activity means moving about and using up the body's energy. Inactive children are likely to become inactive adults. Exercising relieve stress, releases tension, boosts energy level and enables you to sleep well. It prevents anxiety and depression and improves self-image. Easy to do exercise Walking Jogging Dancing Swimming Bicycling Learn to drive Contribution to inactivity: - Sitting around in front of the television/computer. The nurses know of the content of this education booklet but I still am in an environment of IMH where we do nothing but sit around in front of the TV every - single day! Sitting in front of the TV and being physically inactive is what is contributing to our unhealthy lifestyle in C-Class 34A IMH. No exercising machines, no walks in the parks. Just jail like stay-in in the ward 24/7. Think about that. Physical activity means moving about and using up the body's energy. Mind you, these information are from the 'education file' that the nurses will take out and share with us. If the nurses know these information that physical activity means moving about and using up the body's energy, they wouldn't complain on the case notes that we are pacing around and therefore restless. Sometimes we pace about to use up the body's energy! Then I notice they would write in their case notes about the patient that they are pacing about. Wha? We've got nothing to do! "Easy to do exercise Walking Jogging Dancing Swimming Bicycling Learn to drive" However, I remember in my previous admission, I was trying to exercise in a nothing-to-do ward. I did karate kicks in the air. And Staff Nurse Llagas Grace Coloma saw that and said "we gonna tie you" if I do that again. What? I was merely just exercising! I will get tied if I do such things! Their reason being that I might fall. But dancing? If you dance vigorously too, won't you fall too? I dunno. There's a conflict of what the education files black and white and what the nurses are allowing us to do.