Posted by special_k on March 28, 2006, at 10:58:14
In reply to Anybody here been locked up before?, posted by Deneb on March 27, 2006, at 21:46:12
> When you were locked up, did the people there look through your stuff?
Sure. They need to list your property and ensure you don't have things that could endanger yourself / another person.
> I hated that they ignored my many many pleads to see the Mental Health Act and requests to see a lawyer many many times. I don't think they took me seriously. They kept ignoring me. The nurse explained things to me, but I kept on asking for a lawyer anyways.What was her explanation?
> They would say, "OK, I'll go see if I can find a copy of the Mental Health Act for you," and then they never bring it to me.
yeah. overworked... underpaid... etc etc.
> Some people there wore normal clothes, but not me. :-(
How come? Were you on special obs?
> I think the nurses and doctors where nice to me despite sometimes ignoring my requests.
Maybe they got lotsa requests...
> They let my Mom bring me my comforter and pillow from home. They also let my parents see me past the visiting hours. My pdoc there took pity on me and gave me Ativan because I was scared and couldn't sleep in a strange place.
yeah.
> I even threw a tantrum and threw M&Ms and sat past the forbidden zone. They didn't punish me, they reasoned with me.
Yeah... Sometimes the nurses don't seem to know about de-escalation...
> Nothing bad happened to me there, but it felt horrible at times to be locked up. Yep, I value my freedom, don't ever want to the locked up again. I think they made a mistake in locking me up. I think maybe the pdoc who locked me up was taking a better safe than sorry approach. Plus, I overheard the main pdoc guy tell his two students(?) that I had never been "assessed" before and that was their rationale for locking me up. I don't think I would be locked up if I ever did the same thing again, not that I would of course.I think you probably would be.. Not htat you are going to find out of course...
> I came out of this with a diagnosis of adjustment disorder. Blah. I guess they had to put something down to explain my behaviour.lol. thats what i got first time round too.
> I'm just wondering...is my story typical?
similar to me yeah.i would typically get 'volountary'
then i'd hear that they were planning on discharging me.
dometimes i didn't wnt that .
so...
well...
i'd do stuff to make sure i was put under secion to buy myself another week or so.
i find it hard to think back on that stuff now...
ug.
i'm glad i'm not doing that stuff anymore.
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