Cellphone use in psych wards

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Here they take them. I was told itwas because of cameras. No pictures of patients allowed.

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I wish I could of had a smoke while stuck in the psych ward.

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If im ever sectioned again - and they wanna take my phone (out of my cold dead hands) - Im liable to plug it in a condom up my backside. Having no communication to my family on the outside would drive me crazier.

15 years or so back when i was in - i had a phone. But i think cameras were rare on phones back then.

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I think its only the decision of the treatment team. As some patients are allowed and some not. Its good for you sometimes.

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same with rehab, they were afraid we were gonna take pics.

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As if those places were not boring enough. I think we are normally allowed them here in the UK, although it was before smart phones when I was in there, I can remember being allowed to have a laptop.

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yeah. We had a computer in the community room at one facility. I was able to use the ward cell phone to call my family and Phil, it was from the nurses office.

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On the ward I called out to a helpline on my mobile at night as the nightshift insisted to their nightssleep. I couldnā€™t talk to anybody else at 2 am.

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In the ER they took my bag and phone. Couldnā€™t even take my meds I had on me. Had to take their different meds. Also I had my clothes and shoes taken off me too

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She told me in intake after taking my shoes so I didnā€™t bolt out of ER,

why are you thinking that way? What seems to be the problem?

I told her, ā€œIā€™m schizophrenic! Are you trying to change me?ā€

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Yeah being changed just makes us worse and out of place. Iā€™d rather live the way God made me and not an image society wants to make us. Ridiculous thereā€™s no cure, ya. But maybe sz isnā€™t meant to have a cure. God put us here for a reason

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Yah that was also why I wasnā€™t allowed to have mine either. It kinda sucks though because when I was in the hospital for asthma I could use the phone all I wanted, had my own room and tv. It really makes me feel like a 2nd class citizen.

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