Things in a psych ward that just make sense Pt. 2

The worst thing in a psych ward is the people who are crazier than you are, and that includes the staff.

The trouble with the heavy chairs is if the patient is strong enough to pick it up, you're fucked

The worst thing about a psych ward is that it's not a mental health ward, it's a "let's keep you physically alive in a world you hate" ward.

My psych ward clearly didn't have heavy chairs bc another patient tried to throw a chair at me. She was there bc she tried to run away from home. She tried to throw a chair at me because I asked her to stop banging on a wall (she was hungry, the nurses were literally just watching it happen and I think she was just trying to be funny) because I had a migraine.

“If you have friends” that cut deep man

I’d rather die in the most violent way possible than go to a psych ward again.

They forgot to mention the extra trauma you’ll leave with bc staff mistreats you 💀

Things in the ER psych unit that just make sense • Nurses treating you like shit • Nurses denying you food and water • Nurses walking away with peoples prosthetic leg because they wanted to talk to a significant other on the phone • Nurses denying this behavior in the comments and blaming it on patients • Mean girl to nurse pipeline

staying in a psych ward was 10x more traumatic than what actually put me in there.

"Heavy chairs" The 6'2 230lb man they just locked in the room:

Asylums- not a place for happiness, just a heavy security prison disguised as a friendly place.

Now, if only psych-wards had doctors that listen to their patients, or actually treated us as humans.

Ha, You forgot "Abusive staff that treats you like dog shit"

I spent a week in the psych ward last year. Checked myself in because I was at the point of having a dated plan in place and I knew it was my last chance at help. It was the worst experience of my life and severely lacking in safety for patients like myself. I was glad I was in there voluntarily and trying to get help because if I were one step more over the edge I could have easily ended it and no one would have noticed or stopped me. I often say I was scared straight, because the fact is that if I ever end up back there I know it will be the end. I've never felt more alone, uncared about and worthless in my life.

It's like an environment designed to make you as angry as fucking possible.

The problem in psych wards is having to “pretend” to be “normal” to get discharged. Worst day of my life.

A good friend of mine was badly injured when she worked in a psych ward as an aide. She was leaving for a another job shortly when a patient threw a chair at her and she really got hurt. This was about 20 years ago.

Don't forget the 500-piece puzzles that staff clean up every day so you can never finish them, tabletop games missing key components, the TV running 24/7, the hall phones you can barely hear through, and the cart of super boring books. At least I finally read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 😂

The best thing about a psych ward is the ones who are absolutely insane, but still manage to be kind. Even if they don't know what's going on, they still take the time to be friendly.

When I was hospitalized in a psych ward, we were allowed to shave our legs - we just had to do so under supervision. Cell phones were not allowed. I especially hated the rubber pencils. I'm a writer and journaling is therapeutic for me - not very therapeutic when someone is standing over your shoulder the whole time while trying to make a rubber pencil work well enough to write. I began to feel like I was acting in Quills at times. 2 things help me cope: writing and music. They took both away from me. Also, we weren't allowed to watch Rated R movies. We're adults, and in my case, wartime veterans. To be restricted to only PG movies is insane. At least they make so you want to get out - by any means necessary. I also think that standing in front of a whole panel of about 10 doctors to tell your story to over and over is kind of torturous.