I have many times, that happens a lot when your on a community treatment order like I’m on and refuse meds. When I have been restrained its hasn’t been that bad, I new the nurses very well and they handled it in a firm but light hearted way. It hasn’t been that traumatic thank god. Have you ever been restrained?
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Yes I have… It wasn’t pleasant.
Yup…I wouldn’t recommend it
I’ve had to do the restraining when I worked in a residential facility. Believe me, it can be pretty traumatic for workers, too. I hated that part of the job.
No I haven’t been restrained, but my therapist ask what I would do if police officer tried to restrain me. I said it would be easy on them. Since I worked as an law enforcement officer.
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I have been restrained and given injection of haloperidol and lorazepam first time I ended up in hospital.I was very delusional.Don’t blame them.
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Wave,have you being bad 
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I’ve never had to be restrained
No. I have never.
I’ve never lashed out, only cried my eyes out. Every time, they’d give me haldol, ativan, and sometimes sleep meds if I was having a bad day and they thought it would be best for me to just sleep it off, but I wasn’t so out of it that they needed to give me any shots. I just took the meds orally.
Years ago ,as an inpatient . Usually for not doing what the nurses wanted. They tended to use nurses built like brick ■■■■ houses to restrain you.
Chained to a table once. Strapped down twice with leather straps in a different hospital.
Hell, it was kinda neat, I’m thinking of getting a table for my living room just for entertainment and to spice up my sex life.
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I’ve been injected against my will several times. I’ve been restrained once. When I was restrained I bellowed “Help! I want to talk to an attorney” for about thirty-six hours. It drove them crazy.
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Yes.
It was so awful.
I was never violent but I refused to take medication and go in to hospital.
First time I was restrained by maybe five people and they took me to the ground so I was laying on my stomach with my arms behind my back and their weight on me and I felt I could not breath properly.
I was so afraid and upset.
The tiny room had nothing soft in it and smelt like urine ,sh it and vomit and the light was bright and cold and awful.
Last time I was in hospital they injected me against my will but they were so good to me and listened to me and they had a much better isolation room .
Their isolation room did not smell and the lighting was warm and soft and gentle and kind and the room was bigger and had a soft mattress in it.
I begged them not to lick me in there as I might feel claustrophobic and they said if you take these tablets but I refused but kept begging them to let me go to a “normal “ room and I really appreciate that they injected my bum with a bit of gentle firm restraint and then took me out of the isolation room so they never locked me in that time.
I can’t remember what else but that’s what I remember having had done.
I am not a violent person and think the way they treated me at my first hospitalisation was unnecessary and their isolation room was just awful.
I hope all hospitals have improved because these little details make such a big difference.
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