Really excellent video on a pretty poignant topic. You’re totally right, psych wards have a really negative stigma. It’s hard not to picture empty white halls with seclusion rooms lining the walls. Hearing a first-hand perspective from the inside is really interesting.
Great video! Really goes to show how deep the trauma of the "asylum" runs. I feel like a lot of the stigma sources from very real abuse which took place in asylums, which are not comparable to actual modern places of medicine.
Thanks! I absolutely agree. However, the abuse used to take place in other branches of medicine as well, such as surgery. However, psychiatry has received much more stigma than other branches.
Quite a different system in the uk, two doctors and a social worker can detain you. The mental health team inside and outside of the ward lack any sort of acountability. So much so people ending themselves are allowed to happen unfettered and violent pateints are often let out in the middle of crisis , and if it all goes wrong and someone does end themselves or someone else they just claim they were sane all along. The ward staff indulge in goading and provoking patients and draconion measures are emplyed when they eventually kick off. People are left to it at the discretion of the proffesionals, without evaulation or assesment they will either choose to help you or not. You make a complaint about any of this and is likely you'll find both your mental health being ignored and your physical health to boot.
Thanks for you input! I didn't know any of this, even though I've heard quite a few bad things about the NHS... For suicidal patients we have a suicidality protocoll that must be filled out, a new one every 15min, ensuring frequent check ups on patients.
@@BeyondBrainWavesYT If you are suicidal over here you have the option to either phone the crisis line, whose responses vary from telling you we can't stop you or take a bath go for a walk. Go to A&E and get sent home. If you make an attempt you'll end up in A&E sometimes you may be assesed by the phychiatric liason team, sent home to wait for a follow up that might happen a week or two later. They will also at this point say your mental health is fine, just in case you actually do it at some point, this act absolves them of any acountability.
Really excellent video on a pretty poignant topic. You’re totally right, psych wards have a really negative stigma. It’s hard not to picture empty white halls with seclusion rooms lining the walls. Hearing a first-hand perspective from the inside is really interesting.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed the video :)
Great video! Really goes to show how deep the trauma of the "asylum" runs. I feel like a lot of the stigma sources from very real abuse which took place in asylums, which are not comparable to actual modern places of medicine.
Thanks! I absolutely agree. However, the abuse used to take place in other branches of medicine as well, such as surgery. However, psychiatry has received much more stigma than other branches.
@BeyondBrainWavesYT that makes sense! I am curious to hear more about electric therapy, as I think there's a lot of stigma around that in particular.
Will do! Thanks for the support! 😊
Quite a different system in the uk, two doctors and a social worker can detain you. The mental health team inside and outside of the ward lack any sort of acountability. So much so people ending themselves are allowed to happen unfettered and violent pateints are often let out in the middle of crisis , and if it all goes wrong and someone does end themselves or someone else they just claim they were sane all along. The ward staff indulge in goading and provoking patients and draconion measures are emplyed when they eventually kick off. People are left to it at the discretion of the proffesionals, without evaulation or assesment they will either choose to help you or not. You make a complaint about any of this and is likely you'll find both your mental health being ignored and your physical health to boot.
Thanks for you input! I didn't know any of this, even though I've heard quite a few bad things about the NHS... For suicidal patients we have a suicidality protocoll that must be filled out, a new one every 15min, ensuring frequent check ups on patients.
@@BeyondBrainWavesYT If you are suicidal over here you have the option to either phone the crisis line, whose responses vary from telling you we can't stop you or take a bath go for a walk. Go to A&E and get sent home. If you make an attempt you'll end up in A&E sometimes you may be assesed by the phychiatric liason team, sent home to wait for a follow up that might happen a week or two later. They will also at this point say your mental health is fine, just in case you actually do it at some point, this act absolves them of any acountability.
Very interesting! Definitely not enough conversation about this topic in the states - thanks for shining a light and helping to shake the stigma!
Glad you found it interesting! Thanks for your support :)