Posted by Deneb on March 28, 2006, at 16:20:17
In reply to locked up... **possible trigger**, posted by deirdrehbrt on March 28, 2006, at 13:20:41
> Hey there.
>
> I've been hospitalized eight times... almost 9.Wow, you've been through some really hard times. Sorry you had to go through all that.
> Some of the times they went so far as to do a strip search. Really, though, it's just a way to keep you safe. They have to make sure that you don't have anything that you can use to harm yourself.
Just like in prison. I guess one really doesn't have any rights when one is locked up.
> My local hospital has even adopted a policy that when you go there for a suicide attempt that they make you remove your clothes and put on a paper outfit. That's kind of degrading too.Why a paper outfit?
>
> I had tried to hide things to hurt myself among my posessions, and they searched well enough to find them. I was surprised, but then I'm not the only SI or suicidal patient they've had. One hospital actually inventoried the plastic cutlery they issued you to make sure you weren't stashing it.I don't think the place I was at did a very good job keeping potentially harmful things away. I found a giant paperclip in my room. I turned it in because I wanted them to see how "good" I was. I used to hurt myself with paperclips.
> Being in a locked psych-ward isn't fun.Yeah, no fun, really boring.
> Still, when I was told something was going to happen, it did.
That's good
> I hope that things are better now.
>
> --DeeThings weren't even that bad then. I'd been worse. I wasn't even nearly suicidal then and they still locked me up. I guess it was the stupidity of the act that got me in there.
Deneb*
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