I climbed the fence 2 or 3 times and ran off into the night/day
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I was under a court order to take Invega shots, which I hated so much I threatened to move to a different province and start a new life, so I didn’t have to do that. I actually travelled to the new province before coming into contact with the psychiatrist that wrote up the order, and he said that he would cancel the order if I just moved back, which I did.
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Yeah I escaped once and took a train across country
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I got out once and took a long walk and came back. They knew I’d come back = I get hungry.
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Yes, twice. They just discharged me after I left. Once they helped me get my car and I left. Then I left through a room for less restricted patients, that led outside. Both times, I headed for the state border.
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If by escape you mean i walked out the door during smoke break and got in my car and drove off then yes. Half my psych stays end that way.
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This is relatable. Escapes r tiring
I went walkabout a few times. One classic time they described me as 5-6 with a South African accent. I’m 5-11.5 and British.
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I was thinking about it more than once but never attempted it.
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Which was a daft thing to do as a blind man has about as much sense of direction as me!
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While I was stuck in the hospital I tried a really eloborate escape plan three times. One involved taking a piece of rubber bed and putting It between the magnetic doors. When that failed I tried bringing a change of clothes with me. Changed somewhere in the ward and posed as a different person who was visiting someone. Then I tried to get my buddy to wheel in a maniqin as my feeble old grandpa. Covered in blankets and make the switch and wheel me out. But he wouldn’t do it so that plan failed. Kinda extravagant plans when realistically I coulda just waited by the door and ran like a banshee when it opened.
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Once, I think. Nearly made it to the edge of the hospital’s property before the inevitable flying Haldol tackle.
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No, a couple of psych wards let me out to take walks. I didn’t see anyone else do it.
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No, just ask the psych hospital, they’ve never had an escape on their records.
Cool, so the next day I went back to get my valuables out of their safe.
They mistook me for a guy I think, saying something about some Grandos Huevos…
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I’ve escaped several times, but I came back. One time I went out the back of the hospital grounds, walked around in a huge detour, and then came back after I had gotten away totally free. The next time was at the same hospital. I thought that since it was so easy to get out the first time, I would just cut a corner and sneak out the back way. As soon as I hit the back road I saw a hospital van coming to pick me up. I spent the rest of my stay confined to quarters. One time I hopped over the fence at a short term facility, but I came back. I think that most of the times I tried to escape it had something to do with a little drug they call Haldol. One time I didn’t escape to do this, but I walked around outside for about two or three months because they were forcing me to take Haldol. My parents would have accepted me if I had come in, but I found Haldol to be far worse than living outside. The police finally picked me up and put me in the mental hospital.
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Never been in a hospital 
but if the time came I’d be scared to leave
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I wiggled my way out of wrist and ankle restraints in the ER and ran off once. No shoes and in a hospital gown, though, so the police picked me up pretty quickly. I got maybe half a mile away.
All the psych wards I’ve been in have been pretty high security.
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No and I hated it there.
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I was 19. I escaped out of the exit door with the idea I was going to walk home. I was immediately detained and put in a pink isolation room with a grate on the window and a thin bare striped mattress. It would have been better for me not to have done that. I made sure I never was put in a psych hospital again, and I never have been.
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Yes only once (first hospitalization) and i was able to get home 
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