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replyI have documented my experience as an involuntarily-committed mental patient.
I experienced a mixed state of bipolar and psychosis and was escorted to an
ambulance by the police. I stayed in an emergency room for 7 days waiting
for a room in a mental hospital.
My account of psychiatry and my personal experience is here:
http://postmodernvanguard.com/thelackofinsightandcompassioninuspsychiatry/
May you get something out of it.
7 days in the emergency room? Shit! That sucks.
I totally agree with the negative stigma persons with mental illness have to face. It makes getting treatment very hard and some people are too afraid to seek help in the first place. Several studies have also shown that the social stigma associated with mental illness can make recovery harder. It is bad for the patient's self esteem. Its interesting how developmentally disabled children are considered a gift and a blessing, but mentally ill children are thought to end up on drugs, in jail or commiting violent rampages. Recovery rates would be much higher if persons with mental illness could find pride in themselves and their recovery instead of being shunned.
And they didn't keep you? Gosh darn.
Check this out
Originally posted by Shattered Dream
And they didn't keep you? Gosh darn.
You are pretty fucking callous. Amazing. May you end up in a mental hospital some day if you knew what you were doing when you wrote that.
^Awww shit. Dems fightin' werds yo.
....waaaaah..
....teach me how to use this web...
Originally posted by theurbanunderground
Originally posted by Shattered Dream
And they didn't keep you? Gosh darn.
You are pretty fucking callous. Amazing. May you end up in a mental hospital some day if you knew what you were doing when you wrote that.
Serious much?
I was going to read it, but the link isn't working for me...
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Originally posted by dhevhilhitha lyn
....waaaaah..
....teach me how to use this web...
:D How sweet, fresh meat
Originally posted by Faux
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Agreed!
Sorry, but the information was so huge that I only skimmed through it but I too remember when my doctor first told me my diagnosis. It felt horrible. Took a good while to come to turns with that, but now that I made it through hell and back I am not ashamed by it any more. Everyone I know treats me just like it never happened and I actually came to value my experience in the clinic and meeting other patients, having only seen how a mental hospital is usually depicted in movies. Having been in there myself showed me that many of the patients that come in new are only that strange at first because they are totally drugged out and unable to function because of that. Some of the stuff they give you if you don't want to take your medication makes your face cramp, your mouth unable to close, saliva dripping out uncontrollably, your eyes heavy, your tongue unable to function correctly. Luckily they can give you a medication to counteract that cramping in the face. But I’ve seen many patients being brought in strapped to a bed thinking they must be especially out of it. But often you see them walking about acting totally normal within the next weeks or even days. And too I have met in there some of the nicest people you can imagine. And my very good friend, who I met there too, and I are trying now to get in contact with some of them again to meet sometimes. But we both do not want to go to the meetings that are held regularly.
And I agree that the way it feels in there is worse then any prison probably. The beds and rooms should not look like hospital rooms. The living room in the closed unit looked nice and had a couch and a two seater. But OK, I think they are planing to move into a newer building soon.
Another thing that should have been there would be video games. Luckily tho when I came in it was allowed to bring in video consoles and DVD players. Also it did state on a page on the wall that it is not allowed. This way I was at least able to play one or two hours of car racing over the day when no one else was using the room or the TV, to get my mind of things.
And at my stay before that the staff had asked what we think should be improved and made a point of asking me about my opinion. Even tho I figured my ideas are unrealistic he insisted on putting them on the list anyhow :]
The fact that the physiatrist do not talk much abut the experience itself to the patients was explained by one of the doctors as making the illness worth. However I was allowed my own view on things about my so called illness. And very rarely I do insist on telling some of my experience to my doctor, if I think he really should know, of coarse risking every time for him to see it as a worsening of my condition, but luckily I was able to demonstrate to him again and again that I am very truthful with him and we have build by now a big mutual trust.
But he really is one of the best and very dedicated Physiatrists in my opinion! He knows that I would not be as truthful or open with any other doctor. The antipsychotic I am taking now was made available in Germany shortly before my last stay in the hospital and I am very happy with it. I would be able to try and reduce it in a few years but I see no need for that any more. The Antidepressive is a very good one too and makes it possible for me to do many things I could never do even before the illness.
To feel at the mercy of the staff and the doctors while in the clinic is really a terrible feeling. And from the first day on I was in the clinic I too figured that I should participate in all things they schedule for me to be able to get out again. The worst thing is the Ergo therapy tho. Because you feel like you have to do something even if you don’t feel like it, so most of the people there just end up coloring children’s books, as did I often, to somehow pass the time. That is such an insult to the mind. Sure they have everything there to create all you want, but if you don’t feel like it and you think you have to participate?
But anyhow, in my profile are more links to my experience of the psychosis, depression and the clinic stay, if anyone is interested :)
leo tolstoy, yes, sure, stanislav kubrick.
i do not know who to trust, you or mcdonald's:
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ANN: Bruker du 10 kroner på en psykolog, får du dette:
MVO2: Ta deg sammen!
ANN: Bruker du 10 kroner på McDonald’s derimot, får du dette:
FVO: Vår velkjente, himmelske softis.
ANN: - Super Deal på McDonald’s fra 10 kroner.
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