A Waking Nightmare for COVID-19 Patients
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 พ.ค. 2020
- COVID-19 survivors who were critically ill describe frightening experiences in the intensive-care unit. “I was positive they were trying to kill me,” one young patient says. She was experiencing ICU delirium. Read more: www.theatlantic.com/video/arc...
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This means thousands of people have died thinking they were being tortured or in hell. That’s bleak.
And if you think that the American physical healthcare system is severely unprepared for dealing with this, just wait until you see how painfully unprepared the mental healthcare system is in this country.
My grandpa died while on a ventilator...I can't even imagine.
This is a tough watch. Stay safe and healthy everyone.
"You need to RELAX and BREATHE or you're going to DIE."
Another reason it’s so important for healthcare workers to explain procedures to patients, even if you think the patient can’t hear you.
I had delirium twice when coming out of a medically induced coma. From the severe torture of the pain from my nerves growing back to the the very real torture of the delirium hallucinations. I am so scarred from the experience and have ptsd from it. I am no longer the same person due to the trauma. This is very real and is pure torture. I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy. I hope the people who went through this find a way through the darkness.
I was in a coma for 12 days in 2010 and I've never been the same since and no one will listen to me but it sounds like I've experienced this. I have nevee slept a full night unless I've been sedated since because of the PTSD.
I watched my brother die in an ICU in March of this year. I watched the nurses trying to talk to him as he struggled until they had to restrain him to keep him from pulling the tube out. I kept asking if he knows what's happening to him or have any awareness at all, and they told me nothing he would remember. I was so crushed at the feeling that he was trapped inside and suffering, and there was nothing I could do to help him or save him. They assured me that he would remember nothing, and not feel anything. This video has confirmed every nightmare I've had since that day.
My mother thought she had been abducted into a spaceship, because everything was so white, the room was so white. ... My brother thought the nurse had tried to kill him because she'd had to put medicine in his mouth while he was tied down. A few days later when he was recovering he said to the nurse "you know it would work better if first you say 'I'm giving you medicine now' instead of just pinning someone's head down and putting unknown stuff in their mouth"-- he had a point
I can’t believe that people are going through this right now. This is really scary. I sent my prayers for everyone❤️
Healthcare needs to be reformed in the United States of America.
This is possibly the worst thing I’ve ever heard.
What's even scarier is knowing that people are experiencing this right now.
oh god, I’m autistic and the world is already so overstimulating to me this sounds like a horrendous nightmare
Sounds like a bad acid trip. Can’t imagine being in one of those for days or even weeks.
MENTAL HEALTH IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS PHYSICAL.
The most heartbreaking thing about this disease is people are dying and their families can't be there to comfort and advocate for them.
I'm a retired RN and I'd be terrified to be put on a ventilator. They need to use paralyzing drugs so you don't kick, or fight the ventilator, but your mind keeps going. As these folks describe, it's a living hell. It pains me to know they went through that.
So basically you’re stuck in a fever dream for days/weeks!? Holy crap.