How do you feel you were generally treated during your hospitalizations? - Poll

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How were you treated during your hospital stays?
  • Good
  • Badly
  • So-so/mixed experiences

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I am a quiet compliant person. I’ve always gotten along with hospital staff besides once

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I had a few issues here and there, particularly with one incident of an unnecessary forced injection but for the most part, I was treated well.

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I’ve generally been treated good, but one time they strapped me down to a gurney for no apparent reason. I wasn’t being belligerent nor was a violent. I didn’t like that. At one hospital the bathroom had no lock on the door and the nurse didn’t knock, she opened the door while I was going to the bathroom, she looked at my penis, lol, that was a little embarrassing. But other than that I was treated pretty good for the most part, although I was extremely bored and the food wasn’t that good.

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I feel like for the most part I’ve been overmedicated with Ativan for most of my hospitalizations. That’s one thing. I feel that access to therapy has been limited and that’s terrible. I think there wasn’t enough supervision in most hospitals and s h i t was happening that shouldn’t have been happening like sex, and fights, and molestations, and getting peeked at while showering, and stealing. But there were good things about being hospitalized too.

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Not going to go into specifics but here they pull the Form 1 (risk to self and others) on me every time I’m hospitalized.

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I’ve had both good and bad hospital experiences. But I’d say mostly bad. The nurses usually don’t like me and treat me accordingly. The docs a lot of times are mean too.

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I was treated like dirt.
I was abused so badly that I actually passed out from physical and mental exhaustion.
I was unconscious for 2 hours and was rushed to the ER and given CAT SCANS of my heart and lungs.

I went twice to hat hell hole, never again

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My God, it sounds like a very poorly run psych ward. When I was in hospital, one guy stole one of the girls phones. That was about it. On the downside, the nurses were pretty battle-hardened. In a couple of cases, I could swear they were worse off than me

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Those incidences happened at different hospitals, not all at one place. It sounded wrong the way I typed it.

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Maybe I’m a bit odd but I found the month long hospital stay quite therapeutic and enlightening. It was in Western Canada :canada:. . THE WEST IS THE BEST

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im always forcibly medicated in hospitals. and once put in restraints and another time in a straight jacket. those nurse and staff and doctors must have some wicked karma, being authoritarians and what not. also i don’t like other patients who watch the most mind numbing ■■■■ on television all day.

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OK. The nurses that deigned to talk to me were mostly friendly. It was usually the good looking nurses, both guys and girls who fancied themselves something special who I really had no connection with. I ran into a few of those. I really wasn’t treated badly by almost anyone. One bad incident is when they doctors thought I was getting out of control and four burly male nurses surrounded me and grabbed me and took me to the isolation room and strapped me to a gourney for four hours. That wasn’t very fair.

I mentioned the good looking nurses and technicians. I ran into a few of those and a couple others who had a following. I’ve run into several of these. They had almost a cult following of patients who thought the nurses were really cool and special. They were popular with a lot of patients. I never got into those people. Patients were practically drooling over them and talked about how cool the nurses were. I found it a little irritating.

I was treated OK though. One time a female nurse accused me of lying about being on time from a weekend pass. That pissed me off. That was about the only time a nurse got personal with me. I was pretty well behaved in hospitals, didn’t freak out or get violent or steal or cause trouble. Mostly stayed to myself and was pretty quiet.

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oh my god Wave. sounds horrible. i was treated ok but with so much stigma and prejudice in the attitude it was quite hurtful. judy

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They really must have been sick of putting me back together only to have me quickly unravel it back then. So they taught me a lesson in the end and I haven’t been back in 6 years although the group home where I am now has some similarities which probably helps me from relapsing.

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Looking back there was no other option. I had lost my mind. Food was good, some activities. But overmedication. In general, I didn’t like it, so I wouldn’t go back unless there was no other option.

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