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Walilamdzi
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- Mar 21, 2019
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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.
EnglandWhich country/ continent are you from if I might ask?
England
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.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!
It's the most terrible environment imaginable.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.
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.
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.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!
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
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.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 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.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.
Who told you to jump in a river, staff or patients?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.
StaffI'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 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.Staff
The patients are nice tho.
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.
Yeah. They ask you how you're feeling and then higher your medication. I don't understand the doctors at any mental hospital.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.
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.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.
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.
@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.
How did you get the CCTV footage?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!