The psych ward has completely traumatised me...

[Walilamdzi]

Honestly being there has given me far more issues than I had in the first place. I blame the conditions there for me totally giving up on life.

 

[a.n.kirillov]

Which country/ continent are you from if I might ask?

 

[Walilamdzi]

Which country/ continent are you from if I might ask?

England

 

[Soulless_Angel]

England

The UK mental health system is shit, I remember last year a nurse from the HTT said to me, there was no way she was going to allow me to be sectioned as the ward there would make me 100xs worse then I already was!

 

[BitterlyAlive]

I just want to say I'm so sorry. I've had a couple of medical professionals talk to me about hospitalization, and I adamantly refuse. It seems very traumatic and not at all good for one's mental health. Maybe I'm being a pessimist though.

 

[Walilamdzi]

The UK mental health system is shit, I remember last year a nurse from the HTT said to me, there was no way she was going to allow me to be sectioned as the ward there would make me 100xs worse then I already was!

I wish they'd tried harder to treat me at home. It was late 2016 when I was first sectioned, I wasn't even aware of what that was before then and since there hasn't been a year I haven't ended up in hospital.

I just want to say I'm so sorry. I've had a couple of medical professionals talk to me about hospitalization, and I adamantly refuse. It seems very traumatic and not at all good for one's mental health. Maybe I'm being a pessimist though.

It's the most terrible environment imaginable.

 

[Soulless_Angel]

I wish they'd tried harder to treat me at home. It was late 2016 when I was first sectioned, I wasn't even aware of what that was before then and since there hasn't been a year I haven't ended up in hospital.

It's the most terrible environment imaginable.

Ive been held for 18 hours a couple times in the last year in the holding areas of those places, under section 136, two different hospitals, (southwest UK) One was fairly OK, left to myself whilst they decided what to do with me, the other was awful, some women kept walking into my room whilst I was trying to rest screaming at me, then she would be on her phone shouting to her dad, it was hell, she was amendment she was going home, and was apparently *concerned* for me! The workers did fuck all but shut my door which she promptly reopened!
If its like that in just the holding area, fuck going into main hospital!

 

[GoBack]

It's ridiculous set up in the hospital. Last year I had 10 days in. I think it tipped me over the edge for good. haven't left the house since or even tried to hope

 

[Walilamdzi]

I was in there for 3 months. I was categorised as vulnerable, then the nurses were so lacking in vigilance that they allowed me to be sexually assaulted 6 times by 2 different people, whilst in hospital. How the fuck is that going to help me recover?

Ive been held for 18 hours a couple times in the last year in the holding areas of those places, under section 136, two different hospitals, (southwest UK) One was fairly OK, left to myself whilst they decided what to do with me, the other was awful, some women kept walking into my room whilst I was trying to rest screaming at me, then she would be on her phone shouting to her dad, it was hell, she was amendment she was going home, and was apparently *concerned* for me! The workers did fuck all but shut my door which she promptly reopened!
If its like that in just the holding area, fuck going into main hospital!

I've been sectioned five times since 2016. I was held in the Netherlands for 2 weeks, here for a month, fine for a year then sectioned for another month, then sectioned again for a couple of months and finally 3 months.

It's ridiculous set up in the hospital. Last year I had 10 days in. I think it tipped me over the edge for good. haven't left the house since or even tried to hope

I don't see how it does help anyone, I can totally understand it tipping you over the edge.

 

[puppy9]

I was admitted because of self-harming. The first day I was admitted they told me to jump down the river and die rather than self-harm. They drug the shit out of me. They are not interested in listening, they're so obsessed to narrate my life. They treat prisoners better than mental health patients.

 

[a.n.kirillov]

The UK mental health system is shit, I remember last year a nurse from the HTT said to me, there was no way she was going to allow me to be sectioned as the ward there would make me 100xs worse then I already was!

Mh I would be grateful for that. Although its a pretty pitiful admission of failure. I would have documented that and sent it to public health officials.

 

[GoBack]

I've been in before and always came out worse, except for one voluntary stay in a private hospital, but that was just lucky.

This time I had People wandering into my room, one male patient following me around. Nurses did nothin about it. Being locked in with that is awful when the roots of my problems is in sexual assault.

It's just bad. The paranoia gets me everytime. "Why is everyone staring at me" 3 days later, oh because I'm on suicide watch duh"

 

[Walilamdzi]

I've been in before and always came out worse, except for one voluntary stay in a private hospital, but that was just lucky.

This time I had People wandering into my room, one male patient following me around. Nurses did nothin about it. Being locked in with that is awful when the roots of my problems is in sexual assault.

It's just bad. The paranoia gets me everytime. "Why is everyone staring at me" 3 days later, oh because I'm on suicide watch duh"

I don't get how they could allow two male patients to get close enough to me to sexually assault me 3x each when I was categorised as vulnerable, then they didn't go through protocol of getting a report or anything about what happened. Yeah exactly, they shouldn't allow someone to follow you around.

 

[kyle]

In my opinion, I am against the idea of mental hospitals. They will force you to take your meds when you have patient rights to not take them and refuse them. I came out worse then I came in, I've been in various acute and residential hospitals since the age of 18 and the staff were very aggressive with restraints and the adult unit most of the time. I would prefer trying treatment at home as it may be more beneficial to your mental health.

 

[GoBack]

I don't get how they could allow two male patients to get close enough to me to sexually assault me 3x each when I was categorised as vulnerable, then they didn't go through protocol of getting a report or anything about what happened. Yeah exactly, they shouldn't allow someone to follow you around.

They just watch from behind their big plastic screen bubble like they're watching animals in the zoo.

I don't know how they let that happen to you. It should be an obvious thing to be on watch for in a mixed ward of people they don't know who is capable of what.

Bring followed around sounds nothin compared to that, just not being able to get away from him and being so weak from being sick , knowing I could do nothing if anything happened

 

[kyle]

I've also been on multiple high-risk watches and 1:1 checks. It was uncomfortable to have a staff be with you every single hour of the day and watch you take showers.

I was admitted because of self-harming. The first day I was admitted they told me to jump down the river and die rather than self-harm. They drug the shit out of me. They are not interested in listening, they're so obsessed to narrate my life. They treat prisoners better than mental health patients.

Who told you to jump in a river, staff or patients?

 

[puppy9]

I've also been on multiple high-risk watches and 1:1 checks. It was uncomfortable to have a staff be with you every single hour of the day and watch you take showers.

Who told you to jump in a river, staff or patients?

Staff
The patients are nice tho.

 

[kyle]

Staff
The patients are nice tho.

Staff must've not been trained professionally I assume? That really sucks and I'm sorry, the staff at the hospitals I've went to can be nice and some are just disrespectful.
Also, patients vary. Some are assholes and some are really understanding of what people are going through. My perspective of hospitals.

 

[Soulless_Angel]

I was admitted because of self-harming. The first day I was admitted they told me to jump down the river and die rather than self-harm. They drug the shit out of me. They are not interested in listening, they're so obsessed to narrate my life. They treat prisoners better than mental health patients.

fucking assshats and they wonder why people with MH issues are getting worse

 

[GoBack]

I've rarely met a psych nurse who genuinely gave a fuck. Some do. But they are also under the doctors, who are power control freaks s lot the time. Playing god with people's lives and sanity. True evil lurks in psych wards. I can't talk about this anymore.... I maybe losing it

 

[kyle]

I've rarely met a psych nurse who genuinely gave a fuck. Some do. But they are also under the doctors, who are power control freaks s lot the time. Playing god with people's lives and sanity. True evil lurks in psych wards. I can't talk about this anymore.... I maybe losing it

Yeah. They ask you how you're feeling and then higher your medication. I don't understand the doctors at any mental hospital.

 

[Soulless_Angel]

Yeah. They ask you how you're feeling and then higher your medication. I don't understand the doctors at any mental hospital.

Do they read a book and assume they know it all, despite people not being a book, more of a labyrinth

 

[Justhere]

One of the doctors in my last psychward tried to convince me my condition didn't qualify for a certain criteria... I looked it up. IT was the first one there. He also told me one of my meds, forgot what it was called -don't take it anymore,- shouldn't cause any sideeffects because "they were antihistomines." It's NOT MY INCOMPETENCE that's making you feel completely terrible. It would have been hilarious, except this person is in charge of doling mood-altering substances to everyone. He also threatened he'd tell my mom how to legally acquire the right to shove meds into my mouth everyday. Fuck that guy

 

[MartyByrde]

Honestly being there has given me far more issues than I had in the first place. I blame the conditions there for me totally giving up on life.

Been there--twice. The experience fucked me up too. It made me realize how much worse things can get, how poorly suited medicine and care facilities are to treat the mentally ill, and it's based upon a punishment model. I avoid it now not because it was simply not fun, but because it fucked me up in such a way I'm scared to return. I'm scared it will make me worse as well.

Not to mention being handcuffed and put in the back of a police car without having done anything but express my feelings taught me the whole "Tell people how you're feeling" is a farce.

 

[RayoSinSol]

Psychiatry and psychology are still in the dark ages. Mental health professionals are, by and large, just well-trained propagandists for a field of science that is still completely grasping at air, in my opinion. Psychiatric drugs are basically all still experimental.

Which is to say, psychiatric wards are just a few degrees away from being cages for human guinea pigs.

Throw them in. Pump them full of experimental chemicals. Hope to god that something sticks, so they'll just shut up and leave us all alone.

 

[Soulless_Angel]

Not to mention being handcuffed and put in the back of a police car without having done anything but express my feelings taught me the whole "Tell people how you're feeling" is a farce.

handcuffed and in the back of a police van when you have done nothing criminal fucking sucks! 35 mins locked in the back of one, their reassuring words doing nothing but angering me!

 

[Walilamdzi]

@MartyByrde I was put in a police ambulance, which had a cage and no seatbelt then rushed in that down a motorway while I was having a psychotic break with no idea why I was in a cage... It's dreadful that they transport people who are having a health crisis like this.

 

[Soulless_Angel]

@MartyByrde I was put in a police ambulance, which had a cage and no seatbelt then rushed in that down a motorway while I was having a psychotic break with no idea why I was in a cage... It's dreadful that they transport people who are having a health crisis like this.

similar to what I posted above! I stillhave the CCTV footage of the asshats pulling my from my home hand cuffed not caring dragging me to a police van which then fuckng broke down!

 

[Walilamdzi]

similar to what I posted above! I stillhave the CCTV footage of the asshats pulling my from my home hand cuffed not caring dragging me to a police van which then fuckng broke down!

How did you get the CCTV footage?

 

[Soulless_Angel]

How did you get the CCTV footage?

I have CCTV on my home