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Two months later, he's back in the hospital
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<blockquote data-quote="Deni D" data-source="post: 760483" data-attributes="member: 22840"><p>Crayola, he does absolutely nothing on a regular basis. I have offered to pay for therapy over and over again because he has not completed state paid insurance applications for over a year while refusing medication. He has just wondered off on that numerous times as if he didn't have it available to him, even from me. And he is so medication non-compliant they are trialing a once a month injection of an antipsychotic medication for him. He's been moved from a diagnosis of Bipolar to Schizoaffective now. He's a good example of what happens when someone with a mental illness will not take any advice from the people who actually care for them. </p><p></p><p>Tonight I am very frustrated with him, but not to him, frightened for him. During the last call from him he informed me of the Vistaril and Haldol they gave him to calm him down from his panic attack. Freaking one flew over the cuckoo's nest Haldol, just to keep him quiet. I knew I wouldn't hear from him after that, I was right.</p><p></p><p>They are just as frustrating as my son, no more so, because they have no excuse. Lock down for weeks with no therapy, nothing, nada, for mentally ill people. Only medication to keep them quite, and if that doesn't work there's a couple of muscular hospital cops to throw them into solitary with restraints to teach them a lesson and show the others what can happen to them. He has witnessed this happen 6 times in days he's been there. I'm sorry, I'm upset and very concerned, tired of holding my breath, and just tired of losing sleep this past week, hoping he's not traumatized more, hoping he can hold it together enough, hoping they don't resort to "teach him a lesson" before he's let out of this hell hole. Mentally ill people, with nothing but medication, no therapy, not even access to a supposed social worker assigned to them, no answers as far as their questions about care, just telling them to shut up and put up or else, it's a recipe for disaster.</p><p></p><p>From my thinking he has an excuse, he's mentally ill. But they have no excuse, not the people at the top. Non-profit, publicly funded, no money for actual care, excuses, no, not valid. There's a problem at the the top at places like these. Not the people on the floors having to tell people there are no services for them over and over through out the day, they are also stuck in a hell hole like my son. I am not leaving this type of treatment to sit where it lies in the future, my efforts will be focused on my son but at the time I am able I will work against this. I am no one to fool with. I can be very much like a dog with a bone, they have no idea. I'm retired, looking for another life's purpose, I just might be their worst nightmare or maybe someone who they might be hoping for to bring forth funding for more care for their patients. Today, incredibly, strangely, there is a state local TV station playing a news clip on how this place has dedicated a freaking garden on their property in remembrance of COVID patients. It plays on a loop every couple of hours, I've caught it a couple of times now and am amazed how places like these go for the lime light with nothing, nothing, of substance behind them. I never heard of this place before my son's experience with them, says something to me.</p><p></p><p>Copa</p><p></p><p>I feel the push and pull so much, as you have said before. It's kind of like a control thing, like it seems they want us, need us, to take care of them as if they are still children but want to have control of their lives and therefore our lives as adults, flip the script as it were but with no ability to behave as adults on their part. I wonder how my son could ever think this way especially considering he was never in a place of seeing me as anything other than someone who provided for him. But maybe he thinks being an adult is controlling another adult to make them feel obligated to take care of him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deni D, post: 760483, member: 22840"] Crayola, he does absolutely nothing on a regular basis. I have offered to pay for therapy over and over again because he has not completed state paid insurance applications for over a year while refusing medication. He has just wondered off on that numerous times as if he didn't have it available to him, even from me. And he is so medication non-compliant they are trialing a once a month injection of an antipsychotic medication for him. He's been moved from a diagnosis of Bipolar to Schizoaffective now. He's a good example of what happens when someone with a mental illness will not take any advice from the people who actually care for them. Tonight I am very frustrated with him, but not to him, frightened for him. During the last call from him he informed me of the Vistaril and Haldol they gave him to calm him down from his panic attack. Freaking one flew over the cuckoo's nest Haldol, just to keep him quiet. I knew I wouldn't hear from him after that, I was right. They are just as frustrating as my son, no more so, because they have no excuse. Lock down for weeks with no therapy, nothing, nada, for mentally ill people. Only medication to keep them quite, and if that doesn't work there's a couple of muscular hospital cops to throw them into solitary with restraints to teach them a lesson and show the others what can happen to them. He has witnessed this happen 6 times in days he's been there. I'm sorry, I'm upset and very concerned, tired of holding my breath, and just tired of losing sleep this past week, hoping he's not traumatized more, hoping he can hold it together enough, hoping they don't resort to "teach him a lesson" before he's let out of this hell hole. Mentally ill people, with nothing but medication, no therapy, not even access to a supposed social worker assigned to them, no answers as far as their questions about care, just telling them to shut up and put up or else, it's a recipe for disaster. From my thinking he has an excuse, he's mentally ill. But they have no excuse, not the people at the top. Non-profit, publicly funded, no money for actual care, excuses, no, not valid. There's a problem at the the top at places like these. Not the people on the floors having to tell people there are no services for them over and over through out the day, they are also stuck in a hell hole like my son. I am not leaving this type of treatment to sit where it lies in the future, my efforts will be focused on my son but at the time I am able I will work against this. I am no one to fool with. I can be very much like a dog with a bone, they have no idea. I'm retired, looking for another life's purpose, I just might be their worst nightmare or maybe someone who they might be hoping for to bring forth funding for more care for their patients. Today, incredibly, strangely, there is a state local TV station playing a news clip on how this place has dedicated a freaking garden on their property in remembrance of COVID patients. It plays on a loop every couple of hours, I've caught it a couple of times now and am amazed how places like these go for the lime light with nothing, nothing, of substance behind them. I never heard of this place before my son's experience with them, says something to me. Copa I feel the push and pull so much, as you have said before. It's kind of like a control thing, like it seems they want us, need us, to take care of them as if they are still children but want to have control of their lives and therefore our lives as adults, flip the script as it were but with no ability to behave as adults on their part. I wonder how my son could ever think this way especially considering he was never in a place of seeing me as anything other than someone who provided for him. But maybe he thinks being an adult is controlling another adult to make them feel obligated to take care of him. [/QUOTE]
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