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ROFL...HOSPITAL Called...to be continued...
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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 474411" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>I have got to use your name because I now think of your little boy as our Buddy...lol...so is it okay if I call you Dee? </p><p></p><p>Dee, I will never forget a few years ago my therapist and I decided that I was having a really stressful time dealing with my Cory, Tony, Jamie in the Marines, just life in general so there was this new psychiatric place that opened in our town that was supposed to be really nice. We decided I would check myself in "voluntarily" so I could get some respite for myself and just relax for a few days. We did make sure that they would allow me to smoke outside before I went in. That was a big deal because I am a two pack a day smoker! We both were assured I would be allowed to go out in the courtyard anytime I wanted. We also thought there would be groups, some relaxation programs such as maybe art therapy or something like that. </p><p></p><p>Oh heck no. This place was awful. First of all, they had these little beds that were captains beds like kids sleep on. Not even real mattresses on them. Bunky boards. I have horribly ortho issues and I knew that wasnt going to work. I asked if they could get me a hospital bed because they are actually affiliated with the hospital and are right next door and get the meals from the hospital. Nope. I would just have to live with it. Oh this wasnt going to work. Then I wasnt allowed to have my Mp3 player in my room. Huh? Why? Then they wouldnt allow me to have my pain medications that were prescribed by my doctor! Oh hell. So they have me sleeping on a slab of board with no pain medications. Now they decide to say I can only go out and smoke 3 times a day and only one cig at a time! OMG! </p><p></p><p>Then the groups. OMG the groups. They were not held by anyone who had any information about anything psychiatric. This one CNA said she had just finished up a 2 week course in "mentally healthy" and she new now that if people heard voices that they had to be those psychos...or were they schizos? I told her do you mean psychotic? She said yeah yeah thats it. I said well psychotic doesnt mean just one diagnosis and she said oh yes it does! I said no...you can have psychosis for many reasons...and wouldnt hear of it. Then she went off about "bipolar mainers" Not mania. Mainers. I gave up then and sat in a corner. </p><p></p><p>That day was a Sunday and I told them that I was a voluntary admission and I was leaving. They hit the roof. Oh no I wasnt. I came in from the psychiatric ward and I couldnt go anywhere. I said the heck I did, check my chart, I signed myself in, I can sign myself out. They just went ape. They refused to let me out. I was ready to climb over the fences but they wouldnt let me out in the courtyard. I was livid. When the doctor came in the morning. Yes...they made me stay in that place all night long sitting up in the stupid bed that I couldnt sleep in.....I told that idiot doctor that I was leaving...and he threatened me that I would be leaving AMA. I said I dont care. He said they would mark it so I couldnt ever come back. I laughed at him and asked him did he really think I would ever want to come back? </p><p></p><p>I went straight from there to my therapists office and met her going to work and she was so shocked. She told me next time we are just going to book a room at the Holiday Inn. LOL</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 474411, member: 1514"] I have got to use your name because I now think of your little boy as our Buddy...lol...so is it okay if I call you Dee? Dee, I will never forget a few years ago my therapist and I decided that I was having a really stressful time dealing with my Cory, Tony, Jamie in the Marines, just life in general so there was this new psychiatric place that opened in our town that was supposed to be really nice. We decided I would check myself in "voluntarily" so I could get some respite for myself and just relax for a few days. We did make sure that they would allow me to smoke outside before I went in. That was a big deal because I am a two pack a day smoker! We both were assured I would be allowed to go out in the courtyard anytime I wanted. We also thought there would be groups, some relaxation programs such as maybe art therapy or something like that. Oh heck no. This place was awful. First of all, they had these little beds that were captains beds like kids sleep on. Not even real mattresses on them. Bunky boards. I have horribly ortho issues and I knew that wasnt going to work. I asked if they could get me a hospital bed because they are actually affiliated with the hospital and are right next door and get the meals from the hospital. Nope. I would just have to live with it. Oh this wasnt going to work. Then I wasnt allowed to have my Mp3 player in my room. Huh? Why? Then they wouldnt allow me to have my pain medications that were prescribed by my doctor! Oh hell. So they have me sleeping on a slab of board with no pain medications. Now they decide to say I can only go out and smoke 3 times a day and only one cig at a time! OMG! Then the groups. OMG the groups. They were not held by anyone who had any information about anything psychiatric. This one CNA said she had just finished up a 2 week course in "mentally healthy" and she new now that if people heard voices that they had to be those psychos...or were they schizos? I told her do you mean psychotic? She said yeah yeah thats it. I said well psychotic doesnt mean just one diagnosis and she said oh yes it does! I said no...you can have psychosis for many reasons...and wouldnt hear of it. Then she went off about "bipolar mainers" Not mania. Mainers. I gave up then and sat in a corner. That day was a Sunday and I told them that I was a voluntary admission and I was leaving. They hit the roof. Oh no I wasnt. I came in from the psychiatric ward and I couldnt go anywhere. I said the heck I did, check my chart, I signed myself in, I can sign myself out. They just went ape. They refused to let me out. I was ready to climb over the fences but they wouldnt let me out in the courtyard. I was livid. When the doctor came in the morning. Yes...they made me stay in that place all night long sitting up in the stupid bed that I couldnt sleep in.....I told that idiot doctor that I was leaving...and he threatened me that I would be leaving AMA. I said I dont care. He said they would mark it so I couldnt ever come back. I laughed at him and asked him did he really think I would ever want to come back? I went straight from there to my therapists office and met her going to work and she was so shocked. She told me next time we are just going to book a room at the Holiday Inn. LOL [/QUOTE]
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