Posted by Deneb on March 28, 2006, at 15:42:41
In reply to Re: Anybody here been locked up before?, posted by special_k on March 28, 2006, at 10:58:14
> > When you were locked up, did the people there look through your stuff?
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> Sure. They need to list your property and ensure you don't have things that could endanger yourself / another person.They took away most of my stuff. They let me keep a pen and a notebook though, as well as my chapstick. They took away my hand sanitizer.
>The nurse explained things to me, but I kept on asking for a lawyer anyways.
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> What was her explanation?She explained that there was no legal recourse in a 72 hour hold. I kept trying to find a loophole, but there was none.
> > 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.
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> yeah. overworked... underpaid... etc etc.I'm not sure that she even tried to find it for me, but I understand. They were nice to me overall. By the end of my stay they were treating me pretty much like a normal person. I actually stayed longer than 72 hours. I think it was because it was the weekend. They did give me an overnight pass for the last night though.
> > Some people there wore normal clothes, but not me. :-(
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> How come? Were you on special obs?I'm not sure. I think it was because I was a flight risk.
> > I think the nurses and doctors where nice to me despite sometimes ignoring my requests.
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> Maybe they got lotsa requests...I actually didn't see other people making requests. Maybe they were okay with being in there, but I wasn't.
> > I even threw a tantrum and threw M&Ms and sat past the forbidden zone. They didn't punish me, they reasoned with me.
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> Yeah... Sometimes the nurses don't seem to know about de-escalation...No, there were good with de-escalation. I was only angry for a little while before the nurse talked to me about how M&Ms on the floor might hurt people and about how throwing them and going past what I call the "forbidden" zone wasn't helping me get out of there.
> I don't think I would be locked up if I ever did the same thing again, not that I would of course.
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> I think you probably would be.. Not htat you are going to find out of course...[I wrote a bit here about how I don't think I would get locked up again because I wasn't suicidal, but I've decided to take that out because there is no need to write those things to comfort myself because I'm never going to put myself in that position again.]
> i would typically get 'volountary'
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> then i'd hear that they were planning on discharging me.
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> dometimes i didn't wnt that .
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> so...
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> well...
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> i'd do stuff to make sure i was put under secion to buy myself another week or so.:-( Sorry they didn't help you enough. No one really helped me either. It was just a boring stay.
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> i find it hard to think back on that stuff now...
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> ug.Sorry if I brought stuff up for you.
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> i'm glad i'm not doing that stuff anymore.I'm glad you're not doing those things now too.
Deneb*
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