What´s the most insane experience you´ve had at a psych ward/mental hospital?

[takeyourshotfunboy]

When I was 11 or 12 I was put in the Uplift holding center. I made a friend there, I think she was 14. Anyways one of the staff members overheard us talking about ¨inappropriate¨ things. She told us that if we kept talking about ¨inappopriate¨ things she would take one of us and put them in the adult psych ward. She then turned to my friend and said ¨That wasn´t a very nice place, now was it Sky?¨ (revealing confidential information about her). Keep in mind that this was all in front of the other kids.

At Uplift they also didn´t tell me when my parents had sent a sort of care package for me containing cookies and a blanket. The provided sheets on the bed were so thin that I couldn´t sleep at night. It was truly nightmarish, like they wanted me to suffer.

What´s the worst/most insane experience you´ve had at the psych ward?

 

[metalchic_74]

There was this dude who obviously was having a severe manic episode. He kept taking his clothes off and running around naked lol. They had to sedate him several times.

 

[trynacbt]

Being at the hospital with my sister after she had a severe manic episode that had led her to disappear for a day. Being in the bathroom in the same room as her and having her call my name out to me continuously even after I told her that I was there. Seeing her facial features freeze up for several seconds on end. Spoon feeding her at the cafeteria downstairs. Lying next to her in the bed until the nurse came in and asked which one of us was the patient. Reassuring my sister that yes, we were all alive, not dead. Listening to her ask me if life was infinite and not being able to give her an answer, but telling her my love for her was.

 

[metalchic_74]

Oh I forgot there was this girl who kept pooping in the shower lol

 

[Deleted member 1465]

Oh I forgot there was this girl who kept pooping in the shower lol

And what's wrong with that?

 

[Jean4]

I failed and was in there recently. I had two nurses who only wanted to talk about my occupation and try to meet and get autographs from those who I work with. At one point, one nurse said to me, that I have everything. They would give anything to have my life. They are absolutely clueless.

 

[takeyourshotfunboy]

I failed and was in there recently. I had two nurses who only wanted to talk about my occupation and try to meet and get autographs from those who I work with. At one point, one nurse said to me, that I have everything. They would give anything to have my life. They are absolutely clueless.

What is your occupation? Who did they want autographs from?

 

[Tiedie]

They confused me for my twin and it lasted 2 days before they figured it out.

 

[trynacbt]

I failed and was in there recently. I had two nurses who only wanted to talk about my occupation and try to meet and get autographs from those who I work with. At one point, one nurse said to me, that I have everything. They would give anything to have my life. They are absolutely clueless.

Damn.

They confused me for my twin and it lasted 2 days before they figured it out.

That's hilarious to me...

 

[Jean4]

What is your occupation? Who did they want autographs from?

Let's just say, I'm in the music business. ;)

 

[CrushedHopes]

When some guy tried to threaten physical violence to me and started smashing the windows. I slipped away and informed the staff, and then he was sent to a more severe ward.

 

[Onomotopoeia]

My memory is crap mostly but I have this vivid memory of the girl running around banging food trays on the wall screaming I could drink an ocean of orange juice...it was amusing

 

[cowbain]

Phew, too many to count but the 1st time I got ivc'd stands out. I was 15 dealing with agoraphobia and a slew of other severe mental health issues, combined with having abusive narcissistic parents and had just gotten a new intensive in home therapist, due to my parents firing my old company because they made a cps report. Within the first meeting with the new therapist we barely had a 5 minute conversation before she decided I needed to go to the hospital. I had already been to the hospital before and felt like it wasn't helpful and this wasn't needed so I refused and she went to the courthouse to take out an involuntary commitment. Looking back at it now I don't blame her, she was probably alarmed by seeing how bad of a state I was in and also seeing how my parents were and how they treated me. At the time I was really annoyed by her though, and it's still kind of unprofessional to make such a drastic decision so early in meeting with someone. About two hours later cops show up and of course they were dicks for no reason, they kept knocking on my bedroom door and one kept walking in while I was trying to get changed. I get handcuffed and driven to the hospital in a cop car (yay, so therapeutic! <3). When I get there apart of the intake process is changing in front of a nurse to make sure you weren't bringing any objects that could harm yourself or others. I had been through that process before from the two other times I went to the hospital, but since this was my first time getting ivc'd I was terrified. A lot of people talk about the flight or fight response but for me when I'm afraid or stressed I freeze. I told the nurses that I wanted to wait until my parents got there to change but for some reason they weren't happy with that answer so they forced me into a room with a bunch of nurses and grown men security guards and started pulling off my clothes. I begged them to stop and desperately tried to cover myself up with my hands but the men kept restraining my arms and at that point I was crying and having a panic attack but they didn't listen or care. One of the men even touched my bare boob. As a 15 year old girl with high anxiety and ptsd from sexual abuse the entire experience was highly triggering. After they all left the room I was crying hysterically and a nurse came in and started comforting me. She told me about how she had a daughter my age and what they just did wasn't right and against the protocol. Later on when my mom arrived at the hospital I told her what happened and she was pissed, despite being a shitty person herself. She informed the staff about what happened and since there were cameras in the room it took place in she asked to see them but the staff lied and said the cameras weren't working in that room. She did end up speaking with someone higher up but they didn't take it seriously and nothing came out of it. I don't know if that's because my parents are shit and they didn't care enough to follow through with it or if it was the hospitals negligence but my guess would be both.

 

[AllThePsychMeds]

One of my roommates in the college dorm called in on (correct) suspicion that I had self harmed. Campus police showed up around midnight, put me in the back of a cruiser, and dropped me off at the mental hospital. I was told that the school had a zero tolerance policy and that I would be admitted no matter what since I had indeed self harmed. The school didn't notify my parents because I wasn't a minor. I didn't have any money when the campus police took me, so I couldn't pay to call out to tell anyone what had happened. I also couldn't pay for toiletries. Additionally, my street clothes were "unsafe". For 3 weeks, everyone thought it was fine that an unwashed and wounded 18 year old girl with nothing but a hospital gown should be in a medium/high security, mixed gender, mixed case adult ward filled mostly with 50 year old men. It lasted until a fellow patient gave me money to phone out. I have a lot of disturbing memory fragments from my time there. I was kept too drugged up to be coherent and don't want to try to recall much anyways out of fear. I will do anything not to return.

One that stands out was the morbidly obese EDNOS woman who would constantly scream about being forcibly starved. She also refused to eat her tray because the food on it was being used as a way to punish her or something. Unlike everyone else, she had her own room. I peeked in once. Half-empty soda bottles, snacks, and fast food containers everywhere. The staff must have been giving them to her? We weren't allowed outside, the windows were just slits, and all items brought by visitors had to be pre-approved and on the allowed items list.

 

[Ratherbeskinny]

So many things, but the most weird times were when me and another girl (who recently killed herself, so I've heard) cut each other. Another time (at another ward), I sucked someone's dick for like 5 seconds in the living room while other clients were watching. I wasn't in a good place. Not. At. All.

 

[Hotsackage]

The assholes getting me out of bed. When all i wanted to do is rot

 

[Ironweed]

We had one patient who thought he was Jesus and another who thought he was God. They literally couldn't be in the same room with each other, but we did everything we could to make sure they were. What an asshole I was as a teenager. Still..it was kind of funny. Guess I still am kind of one. ‍ For no reason any of us understood the Jesus guy got released from treatment to his family still thinking he was Jesus. After that God calmed down a lot. He and I used to play chess, and he kicked my ass. Guess I should have expected that, him being God and all.

 

[sleepy dog]

Just a woman screaming as loud as she could "get out!, get the fuck out, i'm warning you". But she was in her room alone. Later she said she does that because the spirits have entered the area and are raping her.

(She also believed she was a goddess, she was going to have infinite money, and her and her 20 husbands, that she chose from men she randomly met without giving them a choice, were going to go on a journey together to a utopia or kingdom, heaven? I can't remember.)

Another woman in there heard her say she was a goddess, so that woman said she was the devil just to be against her. The goddess really went after the devil sometimes without mercy, those 2 went at it verbally viciously just to be doing it.

 

[takeyourshotfunboy]

We had one patient who thought he was Jesus and another who thought he was God. They literally couldn't be in the same room with each other, but we did everything we could to make sure they were. What an asshole I was as a teenager. Still..it was kind of funny. Guess I still am kind of one. ‍♂ For no reason any of us understood the Jesus guy got released from treatment to his family still thinking he was Jesus. After that God calmed down a lot. He and I used to play chess, and he kicked my ass. Guess I should have expected that, him being God and all.

That´s hilarious ngl

 

[deadalready1969]

Half of the floor being put on Trazadone unnecessarily because my roommate snored so loudly it could be heard down the hallways. So we were all just on a new med that we really didn't need. WTF.

 

[Anxious_Panda]

Lucky for me, I've spent minimum time in lock up, but I did have a sort of two week stint in a locked children's ward. (Will explain the sort of) What a fucking nightmare. Half the kids who were there were foster kids that the foster parents couldn't or wouldn't handle and there wasn't placement for them elsewhere. The first time I was there, I was forced to strip completely naked in a back room so they could do a body exam. I got tons of judgemental questions about why I had so many cuts and scars (Dumbasses) why I did it, what I used, why I started, what (literally a question they ask) made my life so horrible that I sliced my skin up? There was a kid there who had some serious issues. He was 10 years old and would talk about setting fires and killing people and torturing animals and he'd wad up wet toilit paper and throw it in the ceiling in his room. His 17 year old roommate requested another room pretty quickly. Eventually the kid pressed one too many nerves, because a nine year old kid in a cast brought his casted arm down on the others head and knocked him out cold and tried to choke him out. It took 3 staff to pull this 50 pound kid off him. Anyways. Got out the first time with the fake it to make it memo, until my mom set me off with her abuse, and when I had to go back, I was stripped again and was put in solitary because "clearly I didn't learn my lesson the first time." The place is shut down now.

 

[End Piece]

I was in a women's psych ward, with people who were more or less 'stable', for lack of a better word. Lots of PTSD sufferers, along with mood disorders.
Nothing too crazy happened, except one woman who I saw shoving her hand in her mouth over a sink. Another patient complained about her taking a 'hard shit' with the door open. Another complained about her masturbating in their shared room.
I did hear one woman screaming words that truly haunted me. "That DOCTOR told me to go see my SON, because he thinks it would be GOOD for me! He wants me to go see that little monster I shit out who tried to RAPE me!" Just awful. I hope she's doing okay. She seemed so beaten down by life.

 

[PDAnnie2610]

Hearing a lady with psychosis scream 'I'm the wife of Jesus Christ' while tied to the bed.

Having to fight for a decent bed in the 'C' class ward. Patients in there don't get assigned a bed - it's a free for all.

Being sent there restrained from a general hospital - no water or food given, dinner not given because I arrived at 7pm - too late for dinner, yet the hosp which transferred me failed to give me dinner before the transfer. Then again, how the heck am I going to eat, tied flat to the bed? Then managing to overturn the trolley bed and thereby getting myself freed from restraints (was in them for over 4 hours.)

Being bruised after being manhandled as a psych patient. Gonna Hand it to the stuff for bruising my elbow... guess it comes with the territory of being held down by 4 adults as they forced me into the restraints.

Being locked up with a woman who's being evaluated after committing infanticide due to schizophrenia. I call BS on the local healthcare in that state as that only happened because she was denied help after her neighbours brought her to the hospital after she had delusions - they let her go without treatment and 2 weeks later, she killed her baby in a confused state and even brought her neighbours to the scene. I digress. But she's nice when she's sane and even gave me her pants as I didn't have extra warm clothes during winter in the ward.

Seeing the security guards turn up in the ward and hauling patient to isolation. Experiencing that myself when I fail to go to bed when asked to...

I'm sure there's more.

Let's just say, I'm in the music business. ;)

Yeah best keep identity secret. I'm good pal with someone in the industry and I learnt that discretion is a must.

 

[BridgeJumper]

Being injected with massive doses of haloperidol that made me writhe slowly writhe on the bed, my body bending into an arch. I paced on a 1 meter wide square of floor, bent at a 45 degree angle, felt my heart pound with the most intense anxiety I felt in my entire life. Crippling obssessive thoughts flooded my brain and my eyes rolled back into my skull against my will. I truly wanted to die. I cried and banged my head on the wall and begged to put me out of my misery, I screamed that I will hang myself on a charger cable. They injected me with muscles relaxants and tied me up cause suicide. I woke up a few hourd later and the writhin immediately started again. It took me 2 months to recover from this shit and even then I got random muscle twitches and panic attacks every few weeks.

Being punished for acting out by being refused water and food.

One patient poured boiling hot water from the kettle all over some other poor guys back. I watched him scream amd roll on the ground as blisters started showing up on hs red skin, nurses doing nothing. My friend got serotonin syndrome which they acknowledged after 3 days. They kept telling her she was making it up. She could have died. There was a fat woman that kept throwing tv remotes out of the 3rd story window and a young girl that ran throught the halls naked, shrieking and pouring soda all over her head until she was restrained. One girl was lying on the ground all day in various places like the common room, pretending she was unconscious but she was perfectly fine. Lots of weird stuff.

In the childrens unit I got into when I had my second episode, I was repeatedly beaten by both staff and patients. They slapped me so hard I fell off my chair, put me in chokeholds, dragged me on the floor, pulled my hair out, were biting my arms. When I tried to tell the doctors they just said Im lying. I ended up with a blackeye, a busted lip and multiple bruises on my arms. They would forcibly sedate me with giant doses of valium and tie me down even though I never did anything wrong. My mothe rkept calling and they just said I was sleeping, so she and my dad got in a car to see me. The doctors only allowed them to visit me in a dark room with no light on so they copuldnt see my injuries. When a patient raped me with a spoon my parents pulled me out.

And did I mention the 'isolated room; there was just a concrete cell with a hole to shit in? And the ooor boy locked there had a stomach bug and was forced to live in his own filth.

And they always suggested that Im either exaggerating what I feel or just straight up faking it. No compassion whatsoever, and they preached about selfishness, attention seeking behaviour and 'extreme lack of empathy' all the time. Me, shivering, cold, with an injured back. Yeah. Very helpful
Wish they would burn that clusterfuck abomination mental healthcare is to the ground.