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Re: Feeling safe in hospital

Posted by Cecilia on April 10, 2001, at 4:18:16

In reply to Re: I'm sorry-Noa and others, posted by Noa on April 9, 2001, at 23:20:57

Are there really people who feel safe in a hospital? I`ve been depressed since childhood but never been hospitalized (except for surgery, plenty terrifying enough) but the idea of feeling safe in a psychiatric hospital seems approximately like feeling safe while skydiving into a war zone. Just the idea of sleeping behind unlocked doors with a bunch of strangers, some of whom most likely are psychotic, is scary enough, add to that staff basically having total power over you.
There was a woman at the university-affiliated psychiatric unit in my city a few years ago who was raped by a staff member while in restraints for being suicidal, I`ve often wondered how many other women he raped before being caught and if he`s out of jail now and working in some other psychiatric hospital too short staffed to check references. (And of course being in restraints even if you weren`t raped sounds terrifying). Not to mention psychological safety-having everything you say written down , having to "share" your feelings in group therapy, etc. Keeping my mask on and pretending to be normal feels a lot safer to me!

 

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