Discussion Trauma from Psych Ward is rarely addressed

[Gaga786]

Ironically, the place that was meant to help me ended up inducing more trauma within me that It caused me to break down and have an attempt to end my own life right getting out of that. Now the moment I think about it, i get angry and upset knowing im helpless and that there isn't any justice. Whenever I bring up the trauma that I suffered in that place (I was just 14 years old at the time) therapists justify and invalidate it. At the end of the day, it's all about profit and I honestly think these doctors should spend a day there as a patient to know how it feels like.
Everyone loves to brush it off and blame me in the end. Does this happen with anyone else ?

 

[アホペンギン]

People with authority in the psychological or mental health places usually blame all of the problems people face on them. They never decide to consider what other people did that would've affected people's mental health. And the employees at the psych wards don't care either, they traumatize the patients who are there. The therapists definitely dont care either, they just administer some medications and if the patient is too hard to care for, they call the police and have them sent to the psych ward too. No one cares, all the people who are supposedly there to help just make things worse.

 

[Gaga786]

People with authority in the psychological or mental health places usually blame all of the problems people face on them. They never decide to consider what other people did that would've affected people's mental health. And the employees at the psych wards don't care either, they traumatize the patients who are there. The therapists definitely dont care either, they just administer some medications and if the patient is too hard to care for, they call the police and have them sent to the psych ward too. No one cares, all the people who are supposedly there to help just make things worse.

Exactly, because thats how cruel this world is

 

[Kerrtu]

I have quite a few "inpatient" memories/nightmares. Most traumatic was my stay at Hoboken University Hospital in NJ (US). I tried telling my father what happened and he legit waved me away - he didn't want to hear a thing. I've spoken about in therapy - I don't expect anyone to have the "right words" to say to me regarding the ordeal. Many times there just aren't the words.

 

[Gaga786]

I have quite a few "inpatient" memories/nightmares. Most traumatic was my stay at Hoboken University Hospital in NJ (US). I tried telling my father what happened and he legit waved me away - he didn't want to hear a thing. I've spoken about in therapy - I don't expect anyone to have the "right words" to say to me regarding the ordeal. Many times there just aren't the words.

Im sorry that you had to endure that. I just hope that people acknowledge that any type of abuse isn't justified and normal, yet everyone wants to make it seem like we deserve it. No one deserves to be treated in such a way. I find that many of these doctors who admit us there lack basic empathy in the first place

 

[Rogue Proxy]

It's absolutely disgusting how the trauma, abuse, and neglect inflicted by mental health enforcers and their institutions gets glossed over. Unfortunately, this isn't surprising when you consider their true motives. Besides money, social status, and their egos, mental health enforcers focus on repairing "damaged goods" into functional, obedient, and compliant servants of their designated social groups. Any problems that cannot - or will not - be fixed (whether it's mental health issues, societal issues, or specific individuals) gets swept under the rug or plastered with pretty, but flimsy "band aids."

Anyone exposing the ineffective and damaging outcomes of these "treatments" would compromise the mental health enforcers' abilities to control and manipulate their charges. When they lose their manipulative prowess, so too do other authority figures in manipulating and exploiting other humans. To protect their self-interests, mental health enforcers will minimize, ignore, gaslight, shame, victim blame, guilt trip, ridicule, disrespect, threaten, intimidate, drug, restrain, pathologize, and criminalize those they consider "non-compliant." They will influence "functional," obedient humans into condemning critics, victims, and survivors of psychology and psychiatry, regardless of evidence, logic, or suffering.

 

[Kerrtu]

It's absolutely disgusting how the trauma, abuse, and neglect inflicted by mental health enforcers and their institutions gets glossed over. Unfortunately, this isn't surprising when you consider their true motives. Besides money, social status, and their egos, mental health enforcers focus on repairing "damaged goods" into functional, obedient, and compliant servants of their designated social groups. Any problems that cannot - or will not - be fixed (whether it's mental health issues, societal issues, or specific individuals) gets swept under the rug or plastered with pretty, but flimsy "band aids."

Anyone exposing the ineffective and damaging outcomes of these "treatments" would compromise the mental health enforcers' abilities to control and manipulate their charges. When they lose their manipulative prowess, so too do other authority figures in manipulating and exploiting other humans. To protect their self-interests, mental health enforcers will minimize, ignore, gaslight, shame, victim blame, guilt trip, ridicule, disrespect, threaten, intimidate, drug, restrain, pathologize, and criminalize those they consider "non-compliant." They will influence "functional," obedient humans into condemning critics, victims, and survivors of psychology and psychiatry, regardless of evidence, logic, or suffering.

If I may, I'll share this letter from another patient when we met at Holly Hills aka Holy Hell in North Carolina (US)



The staff were treating patients so horribly, I went into protective mode for other patients and called out a lot of what I was seeing. I gave staff no choice, I was going to speak with patient advocacy regardless, and tell them what was happening in the ward, how we were being treated, especially those with severe cognitive issues who were being taken advantage of, and scarred by the screaming. I was very touched to receive this letter. This person struggled with alcohol and while I didn't ask them for a promise of sobriety, they felt they owed me that

(Names redacted for safety)

IMO, Antidepressants and antipsychotics now are generally designed for dependency, designed to keep people down. Tools of control.

This Mother Jones profile of Mary Weiss and her son Dan is worthy of a read.

Im sorry that you had to endure that. I just hope that people acknowledge that any type of abuse isn't justified and normal, yet everyone wants to make it seem like we deserve it. No one deserves to be treated in such a way. I find that many of these doctors who admit us there lack basic empathy in the first place

I appreciate your kind words and agree with your sentiments. The hospital employee who sexually assaulted me is now on a sex offender list and was fired from their job (the person was a med tech, would take our vitals and when he gave me a tour of the ward…he took advantage of the closed door laundry room, and of me. The alcove in the dining area, he got me there, too.

I couldn't make it through trial - I had no support from my family (apart from my sister) or "friends".

 

[Rogue Proxy]

If I may, I'll share this letter from another patient when we met at Holly Hills aka Holy Hell in North Carolina (US)

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The staff were treating patients so horribly, I went into protective mode for other patients and called out a lot of what I was seeing. I gave staff no choice, I was going to speak with patient advocacy regardless, and tell them what was happening in the ward, how we were being treated, especially those with severe cognitive issues who were being taken advantage of, and scarred by the screaming. I was very touched to receive this letter. This person struggled with alcohol and while I didn't ask them for a promise of sobriety, they felt they owed me that

(Names redacted for safety)

IMO, Antidepressants and antipsychotics now are generally designed for dependency, designed to keep people down. Tools of control.

This Mother Jones profile of Mary Weiss and her son Dan is worthy of a read.



I appreciate your kind words and agree with your sentiments. The hospital employee who sexually assaulted me is now on a sex offender list and was fired from their job (the person was a med tech, would take our vitals and when he gave me a tour of the ward…he took advantage of the closed door laundry room, and of me. The alcove in the dining area, he got me there, too.

I couldn't make it through trial - I had no support from my family (apart from my sister) or "friends".

Good riddance to that hospital predator! From my observations and personal experiences, most medical practitioners and mental health enforcers get away with abusing, neglecting, and mistreating patients with little to no punishment. Hell, they don't even bat an eyelash over the damages they cause.

My condolences for the mental health enforcers traumatizing you and the other patients; that predator sexually abusing you, your lack of support, and losing the chance to testify in court.

Your protective mode is highly admirable! It would be wonderful if there were efficient, trustworthy advocates readily available to protect those who experience medical abuse and neglect, and forced institutionalization. Unfortunately, this type of support is highly inaccessible due to various barriers like costs, contact difficulties, local and transportation issues, disabilities, lack of support systems, and of course, advocates threatening the self-interests of these authority figures.

 

[Kerrtu]

Good riddance to that hospital predator! From my observations and personal experiences, most medical practitioners and mental health enforcers get away with abusing, neglecting, and mistreating patients with little to no punishment. Hell, they don't even bat an eyelash over the damages they cause.

My condolences for the mental health enforcers traumatizing you and the other patients; that predator sexually abusing you, your lack of support, and losing the chance to testify in court.

Your protective mode is highly admirable! It would be wonderful if there were efficient, trustworthy advocates readily available to protect those who experience medical abuse and neglect, and forced institutionalization. Unfortunately, this type of support is highly inaccessible due to various barriers like costs, contact difficulties, local and transportation issues, disabilities, lack of support systems, and of course, advocates threatening the self-interests of these authority figures.

I thank you for this comment - thank you for your empathy and kind words.

In the Hoboken University Hospital ordeal, their HR rep repulsed me. He still does to this day. The man who assaulted me, the HR rep from hell, and the complicit staff - I have a deep anger and an even deeper sadness and shame to think of that trio.

I moved away and would have to go back for trial which would've been a 3-4 hour commute back and forth, on top of, as I mentioned, the zero support I had from so called family (my sister is the exception) or so called friends. There remains a deep ocean of trauma.

When I see cases of people who do make it through the gauntlet, people who do have support, I don't feel bitter - I feel a happiness and sense of admiration as these trials are so heavy and many people (myself included) end up not being able to get through it.

My thanks to you again, truly.

♡