I came home from a hospital yesterday that has changed. In 2 days, there were 2 patient attacks and 2 staff attacks. How does it get so badly so quickly? I found myself tuning out everyone.
Does anybody else want to share?
Sounds really bad there
Idk everything seems to get worse
Are you okay? Hope it wasn’t too traumatic?
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Are these private or public psych wards ?
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When I was in hospital (public psych ward and hospital) there were security guards to prevent crazy things happening like fights and threats. So I felt relatively safe. But it’s still scary.
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Sorry you had to endure that while you were trying to get help.
We had a suicide attempt, a few fights, fair amount of threatening, and the theft of a keycard and subsequent break out of a patient.
This was public ward. I stayed in my room 90% of the time in bed, scared to come out of my room. Luckily my roommate didn’t like to talk
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Wow that sounds awful.
The last time I was inpatient I had someone threaten me, another tried to get me to do drugs as well.
I only stayed there for 2 days and got out as quickly as I could before anything happened.
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I’ve had peaceful trips and violent trips. A lot depends on which ward I’m in and who else is there. 🤷
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Sometimes it seems like its just the certain people and the time they are there. I was never threatened in the 70’s but had other stuff happen. But I visited a hospital a couple times to try and comfort some of them. They seemed on the edge of violence in the state hospital. That was why, i’m sure some were in there. But I kept to myself except to a few. I rested and tried to get a little help and it was a sanctuary, but I got out when they let me.
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I watched some guy try to bite his own tongue off he was pouring blood from his mouth and the staff did nothing. I went and took a nap to get away from him and when I woke up he was still chewing away while staff ignored him
When I was in one hospital the nurses kept trying to get me to sign forms saying I was violent (inspight of the fact I wasn’t) and basically used me as a pin cushion when taking blood. They also confiscated my belongings which was illegal as I wasn’t sectioned. They generally behaved like sadistic psychopaths.
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Four years ago when I was on the psyche ward there was one fight. But it was a positive thing. There was some self-important jerk who wanted a lot of attention and he went around the ward being rude and threatening and just annoying everyone including staff.
Finally, he pissed off this guy one too many times and the guy snapped and attacked the jerk, beating him to the ground before staff could pry him off. It was funny because the guy who attacked looked like such a mild mannered harmless guy, the last person you would expect to attack anyone. Looks certainly can be deceiving.
But I’ve never seen someone get what they deserve as much as that jerk. There is justice in the world and sometimes life is fair.
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I don’t go to the psych hospital unless involuntarily put there. As far as I’m concerned those places can make you worse and yes people were attacked when I was there.
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The psych wards I’ve been to were not good mostly. There was one good one but the others I just felt like they were out of control. Patients were violent and staff didn’t keep them restrained so I was in more danger in the hospital than I would have been out of it. That’s why I don’t always assume someone is “safer” in the hospital.
Valerie, I just don’t know how people work through episodes, etc there…
Wallafish, this was a private psychiatric hospital.
I’ve mostly had good experiences with being hospitalized.
It doesn’t have to be bad.
Sure, sometimes the other patients can be a bit strange, but I’m there to get better, not make friends.
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The scariest real thing that happened during my hospitalization was having my first roommate be a girl who was there because she’d admitted to a desire to kill her brother (unless that, like most of the odd things I experienced there, was also my psychosis playing a trick on me).
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It scared me this time, more than any other. The last time I was in, I was attacked, and asked them to put me in seclusion. I was given a sedative to knock me out.
@JustTrish I’ve been kicked hard in the leg by another woman. Been in a shouting match with one and a cereal bowl nearly shoved in my face by another in psych wards
I have had good experiences too
It’s just odds of meeting the wrong person
Your home safe now?
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The staff gave me earplugs to drown out the other patients when I was in a crowded ward (like 15 people) last time I was hospitalized. It got so bad I begged them to do something and they transferred me to a less crowded wing with only 4 other patients, we all made friends and the rest of the stay was kind of fun. We all ate together at lunch and everything.
I just hate being locked up and it’s hard to sleep in a place like that. I’ve been punched once and shoved another time, and some guy yelled at me for not sitting down (wasn’t my fault, they shot me up with a drug that gave me horrible akathisia). Being hospitalized usually isn’t fun. I don’t plan to go back. I am in California now, don’t really wanna find out what the hospitals are like here.
As soon as I get put in a hospital I start counting the days until I get out. I just don’t like being around other people who are sicker than me, it doesn’t help. Crisis Care was more useful, you’d go in voluntarily and the people there were not quite as sick, and you always are able to make friends with the staff and other patients, so much better than a hospital. I don’t think they have Crisis Care here in California though 
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