We had a small unit of seclusion rooms for extremely agitated patients. The steel doors were held on to their tracks with gravity and weighed a little more than 400 pounds. One day a patient picked up the door, lifted it out of the latch, and carried it a few feet to the side, leaned it against the wall, then sat down in the hallway and looked around. A staff walked over and sat down next to him. "Hey, I didn't expect to see you out here. What's going on?" "It's boring in there." "Yeah, I guess it is... and asked him about himself, his interests. After 15 minutes, the staff said-"Why don't I get you a magazine, so you have something more interesting to look at?" He had his partner hand him a magazine he had been reading, and gave it to the patient. "Nice talking to you, but I have to go now. But I'm not supposed to leave that door leaning against the wall, and it's too heavy for me. Would you do me a favor and put it back?" The patient took the magazine into the cell, and since he was calm, struggled a little to lift and return the door and closed it.
It sucks they just toss people with depression and eating disorders with people who are 100% insane and/or harmful/dangerous and expect nothing to happen.
You're right! I was so scared during my first night there - I was just 14 at the time and strongly suicidal so all of this schizophrenic patients who wanted to rip my eyes out definitely didn't help ://
I agree. I suffer from deppression and had been suicidal before. I never told anyone cause fuck the wards that would make me killmyself quicker. Sounds like a good way to make someone whos deppresed more desppresed.
I don’t understand why they make psych wards so bland and scary... They put crazy people in there to “help” them, but it seems like the wards just make them more crazy.
I was admitted for an overdose when I was 13. About 12 hours after I first started receiving treatment, I stood up, walked myself and my IV to the nurses station said "I'm going to be sick" one nurse said "please don't hit the bin" but then I puked on the bin so I thought "better not puke everywhere" so I projectile vomited Exorcist-style on the bin. The nurse said "are you _aiming_ for the bin." And that's the story of how I got a bin named after me in a psych ward.
My dad was a psych nurse before I was born. Crazy how many of his ex patients ended up having children at the same school as me or being parents of my friends
Some patients just like to keep things orderly. I worked on a unit where a young guy about 6'4" 250 pounds and liked to beat up people arrived, and cornered a staff and started punching him. A short stocky patient grabbed the aggressor by the waist and shoulders, sternly said, "Not on my unit", raised him over his head and smashed the wall with him. After a couple of blows, we told him, "Hey, *****, you can put him down now." "Oh- OK" Dropped him and walked calmly away. Staff had bruises and lacerations. The aggressor had the same, but more widespread. The stocky guy was counseled about choosing better alternatives and shrugged in response.
A funny narrative, but I wonder: Nursing staff in a psych hospital getting upset by a naked woman screaming curses at them? Why? What day _doesn't_ that happen?
I'll never forget the time my psych hospital roommate tried to suffocate herself with a pillow case by putting 2 of them over her head and trying one around her neck. I had to use the bathroom and when I opened the door to the toilet in our room, there she was on the floor. unresponsive. I had no idea what to do. i got the pillowcases off her and screamed for the nurses to get over here. when they finally got there she was starting to come to. I carried her out to the day room (she wasnt doing great and the nurses couldnt get her to walk). I hope you're okay out there ♡
I don't think that guy with the Vaseline is as dumb as they think. He knew damn well what he was doing. hahaha These people deserve awards for being able to work in a psych ward. I could never.
I was in a psych ward as a patient before. Many of the people in there are severely ill, some aren't, but all of them are super doped up on meds that aren't always necessary. I was given maybe 8 pills a day.. eventually got out of there and turns out I didnt need them all, they kept me nearly catatonic.
When I was a CNA at a nursing home we had a lot of residents from the state hospital close by. One lady that was on the 200 hall (minimum to full help) she killed her dad and husband. She was talking about it to me and my cousin (co-worker) her exact words was "if I could go back in time I'd kill them again and do it differently to not get caught. I'm not crazy they was child abusers and didn't deserve to live so I took them out"
@@MisterSisterFister666 It was very true. I started reading charts of all the residents I took care of after that. We wasn't supposed to read the charts because of private info in them such as addresses and phone numbers
Hmmm. I mean obviously violence/murder is never the answer, but if the two people really were child abusers as you said I can’t help but think her reasoning was justified. Though she should’ve turned them in instead.
It starts getting interesting when the patient manages to break off a metal tube, sharpens it, greases self and floor of room, and starts darting out and stabbing people. Was being evaluated to rule out "guilty except insane" after suffocating some people. Not insane. Just liked killing. An interesting challenge to disarm this one.
When I was nine, back in '64, my parents took me to my new 'school'. It was NOT a school. It turned out to be a full-time residential psych facility. I was stuck there for five years, was told I'd never leave. I have stories that would make you wince. I'll never forgive or forget that place. 03-09-2020.
@@paalaasengstubbrud3524 I really don't know. My parents never told me why. I know I was screwed up, but not to the point I needed to be in a psych ward for five years. When I got out I had almost no education from there, barely a fifth-grade level. It was basically a holding facility. They kept me drugged up the whole time. Seeing my parents drive away and realizing I was stuck there, and then the administration telling me I would never be going home is devastating for a nine-year-old. Only controlled access to the TV, no radios or newspapers, no access to the outside world in any way. Everything done in supervised groups, no shrinks or therapy. Pretty much just benign neglect the whole time. The staff were not cruel, mainly indifferent. Then one day they cut off my meds cold turkey, I went into serious withdrawals that lasted over two weeks. No one told me or my parents what was happening. Then my parents took me home. A few weeks later I started back in public high school with no idea what the hell I was doing. BTW this place was all-male, so no interaction with female peers. That made trying to integrate into a co-ed school' interesting'. To put it plainly I never completely recovered from the trauma. I probably could write a book about this place, but I'm not a very good writer. The place is still around these days, and from everything I can find online about it the place is still as bad as it was when I was there over fifty years ago. 03-09-2020.
The fact that some of these stories come from PRISON is pretty disturbing to me. Like, you have an inmate who's cut his stomach open and stuffed it with towels, and he's not getting treatment for obvious mental illness? We really don't give a shit about people once they're behind bars, do we.
Hi, person who was put in a mental hospital at age 12 here. I’d like to just say that these facilities are supposedly on a first come first serve basis, but in reality it’s mostly down to what your insurance is. I’m 20 years old now and able to better understand that despite having no history of any mental illness besides minor behavioral issues as a child, I was put in there due to my eager parents insistence combined with my decent insurance. I was there for 4 days due to the doctor actually using her brain and realizing I didn’t need to be there, but those were the longest 4 days of my life. Even to this day, I remember the layout of the building vividly, the chairs, the food we ate, etc. It was truly traumatic.
Biggest hugs, Sweetheart. At 12 yrs of age, that must have been terrifying for you, because its bad enough facing time in a psych facility as an adult. And well done to your Dr for switching on to the fact you didn't need to be there. Good Drs are a Godsend.
Psych patients who stop using meds and have breakdowns never retain the prior baseline they had meaning each breakdown they have powers their baseline. So please no matter how good you feel on meds don't stop taking them they're the reason you're feeling better. Not a doc but worked as case manager for state agency.
A M on the other hand, I had a year of my life where I spent more time in psych wards than out of them. I think I went to 11 in total. I was so drugged up that I don’t really remember a lot of that year. Coming off all of the meds (at one point I was on over 26 at a time) allowed me to actually think for myself and properly heal. I am very mentally stable now with no medications. It’s definitely something that doesn’t happen very often, but I am thankful that I was able to recover without meds.
That depends heavily on 1. what disorder you have 2. What meds you're on. With large percentage of patients the pills are only meant to be used for a short period, or are just treating the symptoms while the actual treatment is therapy etc.
I'd be interested to read the studies to verify that because I would like to write to the authors. I have complex PTSD, anxiety attacks, major depression and years ago, as a way of coping with past long term abuse spanning my childhood, I was admitted multiple times for treatment on a psych unit. During my last hospitalization, I took my final exam in one of my college classes and aced it. The nurses on duty were stunned--they never had a patient take a college exam on a psych unit and do so well. I graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. degree in Mental Health and Human Services! I worked two jobs simultaneously at one point, 15 years in retail, 5 years for a mental health agency working overnight with patients who had mental illness. This was before I got my degrees. I had gotten off of my medication and the withdrawal was awful, I did relapse with depression but it was NOT worse and I returned to work after a few days off (3 if I recall correctly). I wish everyone well!
I’ve been in multiple psych wards over the years as a patient (Bi Pola and PTSD) even escaped once. I can’t remember much of it because of the medications I was on but I remember a few stories from other patients about what they experienced, one of the funniest was about patients playing poker when they noticed a nurse listening in on their game and they started pretending to bet using their medication. Poker game was soon stopped
I was in the hospital when I was 12 and there was this 8 year old that had to be physically strapped to a gurney and given a shot to calm down. He would tell us he saw us sleeping when we would sit at the table for breakfast. Another time I was in the hospital, my cousin was there too and she bragged about using a sheet to choke herself and having to get staff to calm her down. She has two kids now, and doing a lot better.
Oh when i was in the psych ward someone i knew got murdered. It was very very traumatizing for me because i was only 16, the youngest person there, not really mentally ill ( i was in for feeling suicidal after being abused my whole life), people there threaten me, were insane, it was just horrible. that poor guy being murdered still haunts me. The murderer is in jail for life at cyder junction
Panzer Krieg yep that’s why most people don’t and that’s why I’ll never say it openly ever again to a therapist. Or they need a different place. Especially for young people.
I have a SHIT TON of (diagnosed) mental illnesses, but Jesus Christ, I'm so happy to not have something like schizophrenia or bipolar. I've had a few friends with it and it's really never pretty.
My wife was on a mental health ward for sever depression about 18 years old. One woman was on the ward for killing her children and trying to kill herself as pay back for boyfriend leaving her. She walked round all day showing everyone pictures of her children and say how when she got out they were going to get a house and go on holiday. This was about 25 years ago still upsets my wife when ever she thinks about it.
Mine is social anxiety and depression, but both are under control lol. I learned to control it way before I was ever diagnosed or even heard the term social anxiety. Just thought I was weird for years lol.
I had a patient in the psych holding area of an emergency department remove her IUD and hand it to me in a wadded up paper towel. I had to double check just to make sure. Yep, IUD🤢
Wow uh... did the patiant mess with it or something?? Because insertion of those is uncomfortable and wierd at best with your gyno, or stupud painful at worse. I'm sorry I just am so confused and grossed out. (I have an IUD)
I saw a show that had a homeless lady with a hole in her leg. And inside of that hole were a plethora of earthworms that she had individually named and become extremely attached to. Started freaking out when they tried to take the worms out of the room😳.
I have a story. My mom did her psych rotation for nursing school at the state mental hospital in the 70's. The patient she was assigned to was non-verbal. She would read to him, or they would go walk around the premises and sit outside, etc. He was sent there after he murdered someone. He had been there a very long time at the point and never caused issues or did anything creepy. He just didn't speak anymore.
I was in one for three days. I'd never seen cases like the ones I saw, at all much less up close until then. One was an enormous girl who would take two or more tranqs and the male staff together to take her down, put in isolation, and she would break out shortly after. She'd blow through the door screaming FREEDOM up and down the halls. She did it once in the middle of the night. Another patient broke out of her own room and screamed back in the hall to STFU. Freedom lady broke into another guy's room, who woke up to her over head screaming that he had eaten her biscuit (breakfast previous day). He ran screaming in his undies into my room next, jumped on my bed and screamed hiding behind my pillow. We had prison inmates as well. One had a cut to his bone in his arm, full length of forearm. He didn't move or make a sound while they cleaned him up. I saw it by happenstance, and felt terrible for whatever was happening with him. He never spoke, as far as I know, but Freedom girl did a strip dance in front of him but he didn't respond (trying to sleep off pain) so she grabbed his injured arm. I didn't see what face he made, but I saw her go pale and never go near him again. He pushed my wheelchair around from meal time to meal time. I just sunk low in my chair and thanked him quietly. There was a guy who had grown up between psych wards and half way houses, and he was kept so drugged he didn't talk or move too much. He would smile a little if someone did something really amusing. Freedom girl (yes, again) called a nurse a bitch, and he snapped out of drugged mode, leaped over the table, and tackled freedom lady screaming to never call the nurse names. Review time by psychiatrists to see who could be released, an enormous dude was told his release date was postponed. He hit the window they were beside (eh, better than hitting someone), and the psychiatrist leaped like he had never seen or heard anything like it. Don't work in a psych hospital if you are prone to being startled, sir. I was sad to leave, if I'm honest. Some were terrifying, but most were reasonable and approachable. I broke rules and gave them hugs goodbye. They cried. I hope they are doing well.
FatmanRico2011 I imagine it’s something like when you absent mindedly start peeling off your skin and then you look down and realise holy shit why have I peeled off all this skin from my finger. Maybe that’s just me idk but I think she didn’t realise she was doing it
@@haf3113 not too sure how the painkillers work in psychwards or how much they numb pain but theres a chance she was so doped up on the drugs they gave her she just couldnt feel it
I've heard several stories of people shoving things into their wounds on purpose so they wouldn't heal so they could continue having the attention they receive to redressing their wounds bc the attention meant more important to them than having their body in crucial pain, agony, infected or good health.. a 40-50 year old woman would "grow" or "make" bacteria and mold when home from the hospital to inject into her wounds so they dont heal and stay infected to go back to the hospital for the attention she desired.. it's really sad what a person do to themself just to not feel so alone..
Spent several months walking a co-worker through her daughter's horrific postpartum depression, because I'm comfortable with that sort of thing. No, it's not something you want to become comfortable with. Anyway, at one point early on, co-worker was seriously considering committing her daughter to the psych ward. Daughter was a standard middle-class WASP, had been gainfully employed for years (ironically as a counselor) before becoming so ill. I pointed out that being in the psych ward is scary, you are surrounded by loud, cussing, potentially violent people. It isn't like they have a magic wand there, they tend to either put you on a bunch of meds, swap several around, and/or abruptly cut you off of some. Really the only thing they are pretty good at is preventing deaths while patients are there (suicide rates the week after release are quite high). So, I concluded, unless she was fairly sure her daughter was in immediate danger of death, keeping her home, hard as it was (my co-worker was not a young woman, and was trying to work full time and care for her newborn granddaughter as well as cope with her severely ill daughter), was probably the better long-term plan. The daughter stayed home and gradually recovered, thank goodness.
On early and mild introduction to psych was when a sweet old lady came out of her room and talked with me for a while. I noticed her breath wasn't that great. Then she smiled and leaned toward me and said, "Kiss me." Teeth completely brown. The day before they had been more or less white. No thanks, dear. Further investigation showed she had also decorated her walls, but she had washed her hands.
Was a patient myself back then and took a bath on the closed ward. Doors not able to be locked ofc... so i finish and get dressed and i hear a knock on the door. I open and there stands this middle aged woman in her bathrobe, i look at her and ask what she wants, she proceeds to open her robe, completely naked under there and looks at me and gives me this " come get it" nod ... i just looked at her and told her to fuck off. Few days later it turns out she was on a manic episode and calmed down a lot due to meds and we had great talks and even met in our normal lives. She was actually an art genius (like many bipolar people are). I never told her what she did and she never told me what i did. lmao. But thats an unspoken rule if you meet someone in your daily life you have spent time in a mental hospital with. Almost forgot about that until i read your story. thx haha!
damn i’ve only been to two child psych wards, and really all of us were just depressed and suicidal, not as many psychotics and such. we did name the squirrel who lived out the window crackhead johnson though
I worked on a psych unit for people older than 55. So we got a lot of dementia/Alzheimer’s patients. One lady comes out of her room with her hands out in front of her. She had brown stuff all over them. I could smell the feces from a mile away. She comes up to me and says “I don’t know what this stuff is, but it doesn’t taste very good”
I also work as a CNA, and let me tell you, shit can get crazy in a nursing home. The worst is the sad stuff, though. I’m one of the few male CNAs, so a lot of the female patients don’t want me caring for them, which is fine, I totally get it. They get pretty scared that male staff will... well Patients with advanced Alzheimer’s/dementia can’t form words or sentences anymore, but every once in awhile, they’ll speak one perfectly clear sentence. It can be pretty scary, especially on the night shift.
my older sister works at a psych ward or something and she told me about how one time she was working with someone and she was talking to him and all the sudden someone came running into the room stripped off completely naked and said "i am god!!!" then started hitting his head on the wall her (my sister) and the person she was talking to were starring at him thinking "what the f is happening" he ended up passing out and getting a small scar and after hearing that i had to go to my room to process what she just told me
I was admitted to a psychiatric ward and was there for 1 year and 4 months, I have plenty of stories but I have two that particularly stick with me, there was a girl who used to insert things into her lady bits, things like batteries and one day she put a whole pencil in there and had to go to a general hospital(which she usually did after doing this) and she came back with a catheter and bag attached to her ankle which she just dragged around and she told us that(and I don't know if this is anatomically correct??) she had damaged her bladder(well, she actually said popped but idk if that's possible). at a different unit I was at, a girl SWALLOWED her toothbrush and had to get it surgically removed,,, these are both in adolescent units
A women I worked with, constantly heard her children she had murdered, calling to her from Hell and torturing her. In reality, she never had children....
I have a story from the patient view. I was freaking out about pain in my stomach area during visiting and then the next thing I know is I’m in a puddle of vomit on the floor.. they didn’t take me seriously and I found out pretty soon that I had the stomach flu. I shit and threw up everywhere. All I can ask now is why they had carpet in the psych unit??? It’s really funny to me now.
Was an orderly in the psych ward every vacation during college. Took a group out on a walk It was a locked ward. One guy took off running and jumped over the bridge of an oxerpass; lived but hit a car landing and broke his hip He was back on the ward in a half-body cast, and guess who had to position his bedpan and wipe him, until the cast came off. A week he ran headfirst into a closed door and broke his neck. Back to bedpan doody duty. While I was there I learned to emotionally distance myself from the patients in self-defense, but when I went back to college I was distancing myself from anyone like the patients---which was EVERYONE. We're all the same, or the college I was at was scary!
I had a client (community based) once tell me that he was angry at God. Shouted at God all the way home out the window of the car. I think in the end we agreed that God didn't always get the short game right but usually had a good overview of the long game. He seemed satisfied with that.
The fleas story reminded me of my older sister, 5yo, who had contracted lice. My mother treated the whole family but explained to my sister that although the lice were gone, the "lantes" (sorry, I do not know the English name) remained and the treatment was used to eliminate them. Not knowing what a lante was, my mother explained to her that lantes were the eggs of lice. A night, she refused to go to bed and cried that she did not want to crush the eggs. I was 4 years old but my mom said that I laughed so hard that I end up in tears. My older sister was fucking upset after me. Good memory. ^^
this happened in the ER, when I was 5-7 yo, I for some reason took out an IV and blood gushed everywhere. I was there for a massive infection around the size of a golf ball in my lower back area caused by eating boogers... lol.
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When I was in the psych ward at 16, I told the nurse (who went to the same high school I did) that I didn't want to go to school there anymore because the school did nothing to punish the guy who groped my inner upper thigh without my consent (during the school day at lunch with witnesses no less), and I had to see him every day (this ultimately led to me developing PTSD). The nurse then told me to, "give the school a chance!" Like, bitch, no. Did you not just hear what I told you?
@@DiaryOfaCell Did anyone ever teach you what consent is and how important it is? My guess is probably not. I'll spell it out for you then. You cannot touch someone ANYWHERE on their body without consent. You also need to ask permission before touching someone, even if it's just a hug. If it's not an enthusiastic yes, then it's a no. Learn how to read body language in order to be able to tell if someone is uncomfortable if they can't voice it themselves. You're an asshole, and I guess you probably take the fact that you're going to be alone forever out on other people. You should be ashamed of yourself. Go do something with your life instead of dismissing people's trauma.
LOL! Okay so I worked on a psyche ward for people aged 50+. Working the overnight and a patient was just giggling in his room. Walk in and there is poop everywhere. What he had done was bend over, pull his pants off, and pooped everywhere, while spinning in a circle. My partner and I had to clean it but omfg was hilarious.
Not a psych nurse, not my story, heck this wasn’t even at a psych ward. However! I think it’s a doozy of a story anyways. My mom worked night shift as a receptionist for a hotel. One of the nights she heard shouting coming from down the hallway. A man wearing a dress shirt and absolutely no pants was walking up and down the halls, saying he was needing a bath and couldn’t find the bathtub. My mom had the guy escorted out and a few hours later he called, extremely confused as to why he was in a different hotel. When my mom explained what had happened, she could hear how mortified he was. Apparently the man had had surgery and was on new meds for the pain.
I went to one that had both adults and youths but in different hallways, except the second time I went I had to go into the adult hallway, nothing too bad besides this one grown man who triggered the shit outta me because he kept yelling and banging on the entrance doors to let him out
I was a supervisor for the state of New York's department of mental health (secure wards) and let me tell you this: It's not a job for the weak of mind/body.
9:26 In my experience, it’s been the opposite. I’ve never seen anyone being kept longer than necessary. The hospitals I went to wanted the patients out *ASAP.* Once that patient met a bare minimum requirement of mental “stability,” they discharged you. I went in with PPD (postpartum depression) when my daughter was 7-months. My depression built and built until best friend found me bawling about how my daughter hated me, I was an awful mom and she knew it, I wasn’t a real mom, so on and so forth. I had started showing symptoms about 6-months earlier but had been told by my obgyn that it was “baby blues,” a totally understandable and common occurrence in parents facing new parenthood. I was young, confused and embarrassed, so I just believed him and didn’t share my thoughts with anyone from then on. I spent 3 days in the ward because I was “just young and overwhelmed by being a mother, so we’ll give her a little break.” The doctor had so many patients to take care of that they’d release the “least serious” patients as soon they were deemed “ok” and not a moment later. In my opinion, I think it’s better a doctor keep a patient an extra week or two for caution’s sake since mental illnesses are so complicated than release them early because “eh, they’re fine cuz they stopped crying or because their unlife attempt wasn’t _that_ serious.”
I'm 19 and I was a patient in the psych ward many times. The things that left me speechless are the 4 people who killed themself. Specifically a friend of mine, who I thought was better and we talked hours before she jumped from that bridge. RIP
I am a psych nurse. Definitely not everyone should work in this field. We commonly debate whether someone new will make it. I do have stories, but don't like people to laugh at the express of my patients. In fairness, here in the breakroom I showed this to my coworkers and we laughed at our own stories
In regards to the 'cover self in vaseline story' i have a cousin who did that when she was about 2. Except she got outside and we had to run after her; since we were at an apartment complex near a busy road.
I heard a story from the Drake building at the infamous Trenton Psychiatric Hospital. A young lady kept going out in the hall at night asking staff and other patients for blankets, sheets and pillows. It finally got to the point someone went into her room and saw she was stoking a fire.
on the psych ward i worked on in the early 2000, i was a nurse, we had a woman who said her husband was a spy and that the government was looking for her and she told us she was hiding in the hospital so they wouold not find her. Then one day two men from the governement, they literally looked like MIBs, came in and told us they were taking her out. If any of us did anything to try stop them they would arrest us. The woman was on my MAR list, she was one of the patients assigend to me, and the charge nurse told me to walk away, go in the break room. we never saw her again
Mental health work isn't for everyone but I find it fascinating. The psych nurses I know are wonderful and I'm lucky to work in an area that has a really lovely psych ward. I'm a community support worker not a psych nurse so I look after clients in community but they are all awesome and somewhat bizarre. I admire their courage.
Cool to see so many Nurse students taking clinicals. Can resonate with fellow student nurses having no part in psych. Had a fun time with mine and will never do it again. My notable experiences include a woman who thought she was the reincarnation of ghandi and knew all the cosmos secrets and introduced herself to me with the opening line of "shame what happened to pluto" and a man who ended every string of thoughts with "n**** I die for a reason"
Psych patient my ex worked with: violent junkie. She was on a gurney with wrist restraints in a hospital gown. The nurse had to step out to consult with the doctor. Apparently she was VERY flexible because she had a lighter in some oriface and set herself on fire.
I worked at a memory care unit as a maintenance man. It was a lock down unit and this lady would follow Me and ask if her family was coming. Or she would ask me to hold the door for her so she could leave. She walked around for 10 hours a day.
I never stayed in a psych ward but when I was younger I was consistently checked into one because my insomnia was so bad I had really bad hallucinations, I'm olny fourteen and my grandmother(and absulute bitch btw)is still trying to get my mom to put me in a ward because I had suicidal tendencies at one point.
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you know the patients think highly of you when they fight the devil for talking smack about you.
kinda cute in that REALLY fucked up kinda way haha
grassy climer the hero we needed, not the one we deserved
He's a real bro, that guy.
As a schizophrenic, this comment warms my spleen.
@@akigreus9424 "my spleen"😂😂 love it
Part of me feels like the nurse that got a glass of ice knew exactly what she was doing.
agreed haha
the outcome whas surprisingly wholesome
I knew what he meant and I totally would have done it
Smart and dumb brilliance
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I was really touched by the patient who thought the CNA was her daughter. Kudos to OP for being a wonderful, caring person.
Same
I was almost crying until it got to the man cutting his scrotum.
@@kactus1889 Yeah, that was really horrifying! I about busted my gut on "You frickin' penguins are gonna burn in heck!"
That was a beautiful story.
Elizabeth so pure
We had a small unit of seclusion rooms for extremely agitated patients. The steel doors were held on to their tracks with gravity and weighed a little more than 400 pounds. One day a patient picked up the door, lifted it out of the latch, and carried it a few feet to the side, leaned it against the wall, then sat down in the hallway and looked around. A staff walked over and sat down next to him. "Hey, I didn't expect to see you out here. What's going on?" "It's boring in there." "Yeah, I guess it is... and asked him about himself, his interests. After 15 minutes, the staff said-"Why don't I get you a magazine, so you have something more interesting to look at?" He had his partner hand him a magazine he had been reading, and gave it to the patient. "Nice talking to you, but I have to go now. But I'm not supposed to leave that door leaning against the wall, and it's too heavy for me. Would you do me a favor and put it back?" The patient took the magazine into the cell, and since he was calm, struggled a little to lift and return the door and closed it.
......wtf
Brilliant nurse. Calming frightened and agitated people is a skill.
wow that staff member was amazing
Ummmmm…..
HELL YEAH ID BE TALKING TO HIM REAL NICE TO
U-uhh sir can I get a cup of water- a sandwich ??? Yeah??? Please don’t kill me🫣😭
It sucks they just toss people with depression and eating disorders with people who are 100% insane and/or harmful/dangerous and expect nothing to happen.
Tide Pod Pad Thai Right? I was genuinely scared during my times in the psych ward.
You're right! I was so scared during my first night there - I was just 14 at the time and strongly suicidal so all of this schizophrenic patients who wanted to rip my eyes out definitely didn't help ://
I agree. I suffer from deppression and had been suicidal before. I never told anyone cause fuck the wards that would make me killmyself quicker. Sounds like a good way to make someone whos deppresed more desppresed.
Wait, how aren't they housed with the criminally insane?
I don’t understand why they make psych wards so bland and scary... They put crazy people in there to “help” them, but it seems like the wards just make them more crazy.
I was admitted for an overdose when I was 13. About 12 hours after I first started receiving treatment, I stood up, walked myself and my IV to the nurses station said "I'm going to be sick" one nurse said "please don't hit the bin" but then I puked on the bin so I thought "better not puke everywhere" so I projectile vomited Exorcist-style on the bin. The nurse said "are you _aiming_ for the bin." And that's the story of how I got a bin named after me in a psych ward.
My dad was a psych nurse before I was born. Crazy how many of his ex patients ended up having children at the same school as me or being parents of my friends
Good for them.
They delivered a baby in the school!??!
"You can't make ghosts out of lollipops."
Correct.
You need to use people.
LMAO I THOUGHT THE SAME THING
Funny...
You can use lollipops to make ghosts out of people
Some patients just like to keep things orderly. I worked on a unit where a young guy about 6'4" 250 pounds and liked to beat up people arrived, and cornered a staff and started punching him. A short stocky patient grabbed the aggressor by the waist and shoulders, sternly said, "Not on my unit", raised him over his head and smashed the wall with him. After a couple of blows, we told him, "Hey, *****, you can put him down now." "Oh- OK" Dropped him and walked calmly away. Staff had bruises and lacerations. The aggressor had the same, but more widespread. The stocky guy was counseled about choosing better alternatives and shrugged in response.
Lol short stocky dude was justified in my opinion...he probably thinks highly of y'all and went into protective mode
Don't piss off a dwarf...
Vigilantes man
NURSES ARE UNSUNG HEROES AND DESERVE BETTER PAY..
Some nurses diverse better treatment. Others don't suffer enough for their evil.
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You fricking penguins are going to burn in heck
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I laughed so hard at that part! xD
@@wulfrich Yeah, I howled on that one too!
A funny narrative, but I wonder: Nursing staff in a psych hospital getting upset by a naked woman screaming curses at them? Why? What day _doesn't_ that happen?
"Elizabeth took her own life at 21..."
Music: Dah dah dee dah doo...
I'll never forget the time my psych hospital roommate tried to suffocate herself with a pillow case by putting 2 of them over her head and trying one around her neck. I had to use the bathroom and when I opened the door to the toilet in our room, there she was on the floor. unresponsive. I had no idea what to do. i got the pillowcases off her and screamed for the nurses to get over here. when they finally got there she was starting to come to. I carried her out to the day room (she wasnt doing great and the nurses couldnt get her to walk). I hope you're okay out there ♡
I don't think that guy with the Vaseline is as dumb as they think. He knew damn well what he was doing. hahaha
These people deserve awards for being able to work in a psych ward. I could never.
I was in a psych ward as a patient before. Many of the people in there are severely ill, some aren't, but all of them are super doped up on meds that aren't always necessary. I was given maybe 8 pills a day.. eventually got out of there and turns out I didnt need them all, they kept me nearly catatonic.
That's the point... Drugged patients are easy to control with few staff.
So… abuse?
@@agentnull5242 Exactly
When I was a CNA at a nursing home we had a lot of residents from the state hospital close by. One lady that was on the 200 hall (minimum to full help) she killed her dad and husband. She was talking about it to me and my cousin (co-worker) her exact words was "if I could go back in time I'd kill them again and do it differently to not get caught. I'm not crazy they was child abusers and didn't deserve to live so I took them out"
Damn. Do you know if that is true?
@@MisterSisterFister666 It was very true. I started reading charts of all the residents I took care of after that. We wasn't supposed to read the charts because of private info in them such as addresses and phone numbers
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Based tbh
Hmmm. I mean obviously violence/murder is never the answer, but if the two people really were child abusers as you said I can’t help but think her reasoning was justified. Though she should’ve turned them in instead.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 the vaseline one lol
the ice one lol
I'm thinking of Agent Pubeit.
I thought it was gunna be about 🍆🍆🍆
It starts getting interesting when the patient manages to break off a metal tube, sharpens it, greases self and floor of room, and starts darting out and stabbing people. Was being evaluated to rule out "guilty except insane" after suffocating some people. Not insane. Just liked killing. An interesting challenge to disarm this one.
When I heard that story, all I could see was the greesed up deaf guy from Family Guy. XD
When I was nine, back in '64, my parents took me to my new 'school'. It was NOT a school. It turned out to be a full-time residential psych facility. I was stuck there for five years, was told I'd never leave. I have stories that would make you wince. I'll never forgive or forget that place. 03-09-2020.
Jesus, why did they place you there?
@@paalaasengstubbrud3524 because hes a kevin...
@@paalaasengstubbrud3524 I really don't know. My parents never told me why. I know I was screwed up, but not to the point I needed to be in a psych ward for five years. When I got out I had almost no education from there, barely a fifth-grade level. It was basically a holding facility. They kept me drugged up the whole time. Seeing my parents drive away and realizing I was stuck there, and then the administration telling me I would never be going home is devastating for a nine-year-old. Only controlled access to the TV, no radios or newspapers, no access to the outside world in any way. Everything done in supervised groups, no shrinks or therapy. Pretty much just benign neglect the whole time. The staff were not cruel, mainly indifferent. Then one day they cut off my meds cold turkey, I went into serious withdrawals that lasted over two weeks. No one told me or my parents what was happening. Then my parents took me home. A few weeks later I started back in public high school with no idea what the hell I was doing. BTW this place was all-male, so no interaction with female peers. That made trying to integrate into a co-ed school' interesting'. To put it plainly I never completely recovered from the trauma. I probably could write a book about this place, but I'm not a very good writer. The place is still around these days, and from everything I can find online about it the place is still as bad as it was when I was there over fifty years ago. 03-09-2020.
Kevin Counihan that’s terrible I’m so sorry that happened to you
Your parents were shits, I am the same age as you and could never imagine being dumped in a place like that. I am sorry you lost your childhood.
The fact that some of these stories come from PRISON is pretty disturbing to me. Like, you have an inmate who's cut his stomach open and stuffed it with towels, and he's not getting treatment for obvious mental illness? We really don't give a shit about people once they're behind bars, do we.
Only if their families have money to sue. Even then it's about 70/30, The overwhelming majority not really giving 2 splits.
Hi, person who was put in a mental hospital at age 12 here. I’d like to just say that these facilities are supposedly on a first come first serve basis, but in reality it’s mostly down to what your insurance is. I’m 20 years old now and able to better understand that despite having no history of any mental illness besides minor behavioral issues as a child, I was put in there due to my eager parents insistence combined with my decent insurance. I was there for 4 days due to the doctor actually using her brain and realizing I didn’t need to be there, but those were the longest 4 days of my life. Even to this day, I remember the layout of the building vividly, the chairs, the food we ate, etc. It was truly traumatic.
Biggest hugs, Sweetheart. At 12 yrs of age, that must have been terrifying for you, because its bad enough facing time in a psych facility as an adult. And well done to your Dr for switching on to the fact you didn't need to be there. Good Drs are a Godsend.
Ronda Thank you. It was rough but I’m just glad I got a somewhat decent facility compared to some; it could’ve been much much worse.
@@ohitkat That's very true. Take care and I hope you go on to live a long, happy, healthy life :)
googlynoodle Thank you
Ronda Thank you for your kind words, I appreciate it!
Psych patients who stop using meds and have breakdowns never retain the prior baseline they had meaning each breakdown they have powers their baseline. So please no matter how good you feel on meds don't stop taking them they're the reason you're feeling better. Not a doc but worked as case manager for state agency.
A M on the other hand, I had a year of my life where I spent more time in psych wards than out of them. I think I went to 11 in total. I was so drugged up that I don’t really remember a lot of that year. Coming off all of the meds (at one point I was on over 26 at a time) allowed me to actually think for myself and properly heal. I am very mentally stable now with no medications. It’s definitely something that doesn’t happen very often, but I am thankful that I was able to recover without meds.
That depends heavily on 1. what disorder you have 2. What meds you're on. With large percentage of patients the pills are only meant to be used for a short period, or are just treating the symptoms while the actual treatment is therapy etc.
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I'd be interested to read the studies to verify that because I would like to write to the authors.
I have complex PTSD, anxiety attacks, major depression and years ago, as a way of coping with past long term abuse spanning my childhood, I was admitted multiple times for treatment on a psych unit. During my last hospitalization, I took my final exam in one of my college classes and aced it. The nurses on duty were stunned--they never had a patient take a college exam on a psych unit and do so well. I graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. degree in Mental Health and Human Services!
I worked two jobs simultaneously at one point, 15 years in retail, 5 years for a mental health agency working overnight with patients who had mental illness. This was before I got my degrees.
I had gotten off of my medication and the withdrawal was awful, I did relapse with depression but it was NOT worse and I returned to work after a few days off (3 if I recall correctly).
I wish everyone well!
@@loridontcaretotellu6497 Fellow CPTSD young male here. Good luck, you brave and beautiful soul.
The Elisabeth one made cry like a baby and warmed my heart. That nurse is so wonderful for doings that for her.
I’ve been in multiple psych wards over the years as a patient (Bi Pola and PTSD) even escaped once. I can’t remember much of it because of the medications I was on but I remember a few stories from other patients about what they experienced, one of the funniest was about patients playing poker when they noticed a nurse listening in on their game and they started pretending to bet using their medication. Poker game was soon stopped
I was in the hospital when I was 12 and there was this 8 year old that had to be physically strapped to a gurney and given a shot to calm down. He would tell us he saw us sleeping when we would sit at the table for breakfast.
Another time I was in the hospital, my cousin was there too and she bragged about using a sheet to choke herself and having to get staff to calm her down. She has two kids now, and doing a lot better.
Oh when i was in the psych ward someone i knew got murdered. It was very very traumatizing for me because i was only 16, the youngest person there, not really mentally ill ( i was in for feeling suicidal after being abused my whole life), people there threaten me, were insane, it was just horrible. that poor guy being murdered still haunts me. The murderer is in jail for life at cyder junction
They should put depressed people in a different treatment facility bc oftentimes they are sane.
Seraph I agree.
When i was suicideal i never told anyone cause i didnt want to go to the wards and ve stucked with some insane dude
Panzer Krieg yep that’s why most people don’t and that’s why I’ll never say it openly ever again to a therapist. Or they need a different place. Especially for young people.
I have a SHIT TON of (diagnosed) mental illnesses, but Jesus Christ, I'm so happy to not have something like schizophrenia or bipolar. I've had a few friends with it and it's really never pretty.
WhereRosesGrow same, my shits messy and I’ve had mild paranoia psychosis but I’m glad my mental illnesses aren’t like the ones in this video
yeah schizophrenia really is scary
Thankfully some people with bipolar disorder can be stabilized.
My wife was on a mental health ward for sever depression about 18 years old. One woman was on the ward for killing her children and trying to kill herself as pay back for boyfriend leaving her. She walked round all day showing everyone pictures of her children and say how when she got out they were going to get a house and go on holiday. This was about 25 years ago still upsets my wife when ever she thinks about it.
Beautiful how the stories go from sad, to outright disturbing, to absolutely funny as shit lol
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I'm thankful my only mental disorders are rapid cycling bipolar, and generalized anxiety disorder. And it's under control.
Kay Gallavich Medication that gives worth and value to life is a miracle of modern times.
Mine is social anxiety and depression, but both are under control lol. I learned to control it way before I was ever diagnosed or even heard the term social anxiety. Just thought I was weird for years lol.
That's a tough one. Best wishes for you.
Generalized anxiety disorder sucks. I have it. Being diagnosed since 2012.
I had a patient in the psych holding area of an emergency department remove her IUD and hand it to me in a wadded up paper towel. I had to double check just to make sure. Yep, IUD🤢
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Wow uh... did the patiant mess with it or something?? Because insertion of those is uncomfortable and wierd at best with your gyno, or stupud painful at worse.
I'm sorry I just am so confused and grossed out. (I have an IUD)
I saw a show that had a homeless lady with a hole in her leg. And inside of that hole were a plethora of earthworms that she had individually named and become extremely attached to. Started freaking out when they tried to take the worms out of the room😳.
I have a story. My mom did her psych rotation for nursing school at the state mental hospital in the 70's. The patient she was assigned to was non-verbal. She would read to him, or they would go walk around the premises and sit outside, etc. He was sent there after he murdered someone. He had been there a very long time at the point and never caused issues or did anything creepy. He just didn't speak anymore.
There is a horse
LOOSE
In the hospital
Ethan Willis Is this a John Mulaney reference?
Er zit een paard op de gang
@@bettesfragrancereviews1994 Absolutely
Glad I'm not the only one who thought of that lmao
I was in one for three days. I'd never seen cases like the ones I saw, at all much less up close until then.
One was an enormous girl who would take two or more tranqs and the male staff together to take her down, put in isolation, and she would break out shortly after. She'd blow through the door screaming FREEDOM up and down the halls. She did it once in the middle of the night. Another patient broke out of her own room and screamed back in the hall to STFU. Freedom lady broke into another guy's room, who woke up to her over head screaming that he had eaten her biscuit (breakfast previous day). He ran screaming in his undies into my room next, jumped on my bed and screamed hiding behind my pillow.
We had prison inmates as well. One had a cut to his bone in his arm, full length of forearm. He didn't move or make a sound while they cleaned him up. I saw it by happenstance, and felt terrible for whatever was happening with him. He never spoke, as far as I know, but Freedom girl did a strip dance in front of him but he didn't respond (trying to sleep off pain) so she grabbed his injured arm. I didn't see what face he made, but I saw her go pale and never go near him again. He pushed my wheelchair around from meal time to meal time. I just sunk low in my chair and thanked him quietly.
There was a guy who had grown up between psych wards and half way houses, and he was kept so drugged he didn't talk or move too much. He would smile a little if someone did something really amusing. Freedom girl (yes, again) called a nurse a bitch, and he snapped out of drugged mode, leaped over the table, and tackled freedom lady screaming to never call the nurse names.
Review time by psychiatrists to see who could be released, an enormous dude was told his release date was postponed. He hit the window they were beside (eh, better than hitting someone), and the psychiatrist leaped like he had never seen or heard anything like it. Don't work in a psych hospital if you are prone to being startled, sir.
I was sad to leave, if I'm honest. Some were terrifying, but most were reasonable and approachable. I broke rules and gave them hugs goodbye. They cried. I hope they are doing well.
MamaSaurus the part where the guy pushed your wheelchair around was wholesome as heck. Did you hug him goodbye?
Seclusion room sounds like solitary confinement. That dude needs a therapist appointment stat.
how the hell do you just casually stick an entire spoon into your arm and not be in absolute agony?
Thats what insanity dose to you
FatmanRico2011 I imagine it’s something like when you absent mindedly start peeling off your skin and then you look down and realise holy shit why have I peeled off all this skin from my finger. Maybe that’s just me idk but I think she didn’t realise she was doing it
Silent agony
@@haf3113 not too sure how the painkillers work in psychwards or how much they numb pain but theres a chance she was so doped up on the drugs they gave her she just couldnt feel it
I've heard several stories of people shoving things into their wounds on purpose so they wouldn't heal so they could continue having the attention they receive to redressing their wounds bc the attention meant more important to them than having their body in crucial pain, agony, infected or good health.. a 40-50 year old woman would "grow" or "make" bacteria and mold when home from the hospital to inject into her wounds so they dont heal and stay infected to go back to the hospital for the attention she desired.. it's really sad what a person do to themself just to not feel so alone..
I've stayed in a psychward. My stories are tame, however.
ikr .. mine are pretty tame too.. i think this video is really focused on the shit that almost never happens.
Mine can go from tame to severe
same
Spent several months walking a co-worker through her daughter's horrific postpartum depression, because I'm comfortable with that sort of thing. No, it's not something you want to become comfortable with. Anyway, at one point early on, co-worker was seriously considering committing her daughter to the psych ward. Daughter was a standard middle-class WASP, had been gainfully employed for years (ironically as a counselor) before becoming so ill. I pointed out that being in the psych ward is scary, you are surrounded by loud, cussing, potentially violent people. It isn't like they have a magic wand there, they tend to either put you on a bunch of meds, swap several around, and/or abruptly cut you off of some. Really the only thing they are pretty good at is preventing deaths while patients are there (suicide rates the week after release are quite high). So, I concluded, unless she was fairly sure her daughter was in immediate danger of death, keeping her home, hard as it was (my co-worker was not a young woman, and was trying to work full time and care for her newborn granddaughter as well as cope with her severely ill daughter), was probably the better long-term plan. The daughter stayed home and gradually recovered, thank goodness.
Okay.
On early and mild introduction to psych was when a sweet old lady came out of her room and talked with me for a while. I noticed her breath wasn't that great. Then she smiled and leaned toward me and said, "Kiss me." Teeth completely brown. The day before they had been more or less white. No thanks, dear. Further investigation showed she had also decorated her walls, but she had washed her hands.
Was a patient myself back then and took a bath on the closed ward. Doors not able to be locked ofc... so i finish and get dressed and i hear a knock on the door. I open and there stands this middle aged woman in her bathrobe, i look at her and ask what she wants, she proceeds to open her robe, completely naked under there and looks at me and gives me this " come get it" nod ... i just looked at her and told her to fuck off. Few days later it turns out she was on a manic episode and calmed down a lot due to meds and we had great talks and even met in our normal lives. She was actually an art genius (like many bipolar people are). I never told her what she did and she never told me what i did. lmao. But thats an unspoken rule if you meet someone in your daily life you have spent time in a mental hospital with. Almost forgot about that until i read your story. thx haha!
damn i’ve only been to two child psych wards, and really all of us were just depressed and suicidal, not as many psychotics and such. we did name the squirrel who lived out the window crackhead johnson though
I worked on a psych unit for people older than 55. So we got a lot of dementia/Alzheimer’s patients. One lady comes out of her room with her hands out in front of her. She had brown stuff all over them. I could smell the feces from a mile away. She comes up to me and says “I don’t know what this stuff is, but it doesn’t taste very good”
I also work as a CNA, and let me tell you, shit can get crazy in a nursing home. The worst is the sad stuff, though. I’m one of the few male CNAs, so a lot of the female patients don’t want me caring for them, which is fine, I totally get it. They get pretty scared that male staff will... well
Patients with advanced Alzheimer’s/dementia can’t form words or sentences anymore, but every once in awhile, they’ll speak one perfectly clear sentence. It can be pretty scary, especially on the night shift.
Must be terrifying to be trapped in your own mind with paranoid delusions and seeing horrific things others can't. Sounds totally horrific
The plastic spoon one😷😱🤢
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my older sister works at a psych ward or something and she told me about how one time she was working with someone and she was talking to him and all the sudden someone came running into the room stripped off completely naked and said "i am god!!!" then started hitting his head on the wall
her (my sister) and the person she was talking to were starring at him thinking "what the f is happening" he ended up passing out and getting a small scar and after hearing that i had to go to my room to process what she just told me
I was admitted to a psychiatric ward and was there for 1 year and 4 months, I have plenty of stories but I have two that particularly stick with me, there was a girl who used to insert things into her lady bits, things like batteries and one day she put a whole pencil in there and had to go to a general hospital(which she usually did after doing this) and she came back with a catheter and bag attached to her ankle which she just dragged around and she told us that(and I don't know if this is anatomically correct??) she had damaged her bladder(well, she actually said popped but idk if that's possible). at a different unit I was at, a girl SWALLOWED her toothbrush and had to get it surgically removed,,, these are both in adolescent units
A women I worked with, constantly heard her children she had murdered, calling to her from Hell and torturing her. In reality, she never had children....
I have a story from the patient view. I was freaking out about pain in my stomach area during visiting and then the next thing I know is I’m in a puddle of vomit on the floor.. they didn’t take me seriously and I found out pretty soon that I had the stomach flu. I shit and threw up everywhere. All I can ask now is why they had carpet in the psych unit??? It’s really funny to me now.
I feel that the old woman screaming at the nuns must have had some horrific experiences with nuns in her life.
The spoon lady was terrifying
>He was left speechless as well I presume.
Duh; you can't talk without a tongue. Speaking is the most common thing it's used for
Was an orderly in the psych ward every vacation during college. Took a group out on a walk It was a locked ward. One guy took off running and jumped over the bridge of an oxerpass; lived but hit a car landing and broke his hip He was back on the ward in a half-body cast, and guess who had to position his bedpan and wipe him, until the cast came off. A week he ran headfirst into a closed door and broke his neck. Back to bedpan doody duty. While I was there I learned to emotionally distance myself from the patients in self-defense, but when I went back to college I was distancing myself from anyone like the patients---which was EVERYONE. We're all the same, or the college I was at was scary!
One patient handed me the bible and asked me to call god for her...
I had a client (community based) once tell me that he was angry at God. Shouted at God all the way home out the window of the car. I think in the end we agreed that God didn't always get the short game right but usually had a good overview of the long game. He seemed satisfied with that.
"Cut off a butt cheek and threw it at me".
Oh my god this made me laugh.
The fleas story reminded me of my older sister, 5yo, who had contracted lice. My mother treated the whole family but explained to my sister that although the lice were gone, the "lantes" (sorry, I do not know the English name) remained and the treatment was used to eliminate them. Not knowing what a lante was, my mother explained to her that lantes were the eggs of lice. A night, she refused to go to bed and cried that she did not want to crush the eggs. I was 4 years old but my mom said that I laughed so hard that I end up in tears. My older sister was fucking upset after me. Good memory. ^^
this happened in the ER, when I was 5-7 yo, I for some reason took out an IV and blood gushed everywhere. I was there for a massive infection around the size of a golf ball in my lower back area caused by eating boogers... lol.
eww
"We tazed a guy, he took it like a champ. Then pulled out the barbs, handed them back to the officer and told him that wasn't very nice."
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When I was in the psych ward at 16, I told the nurse (who went to the same high school I did) that I didn't want to go to school there anymore because the school did nothing to punish the guy who groped my inner upper thigh without my consent (during the school day at lunch with witnesses no less), and I had to see him every day (this ultimately led to me developing PTSD). The nurse then told me to, "give the school a chance!" Like, bitch, no. Did you not just hear what I told you?
If you can’t deal with someone touching your upper thigh, you’re going to have a tough time in life sweetheart.
@@DiaryOfaCell Did anyone ever teach you what consent is and how important it is? My guess is probably not. I'll spell it out for you then. You cannot touch someone ANYWHERE on their body without consent. You also need to ask permission before touching someone, even if it's just a hug. If it's not an enthusiastic yes, then it's a no. Learn how to read body language in order to be able to tell if someone is uncomfortable if they can't voice it themselves.
You're an asshole, and I guess you probably take the fact that you're going to be alone forever out on other people. You should be ashamed of yourself. Go do something with your life instead of dismissing people's trauma.
@@DiaryOfaCell what the fuck dude
LOL! Okay so I worked on a psyche ward for people aged 50+. Working the overnight and a patient was just giggling in his room. Walk in and there is poop everywhere. What he had done was bend over, pull his pants off, and pooped everywhere, while spinning in a circle. My partner and I had to clean it but omfg was hilarious.
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I think the ice one proves laughter is the best medicine
Not a psych nurse, not my story, heck this wasn’t even at a psych ward. However! I think it’s a doozy of a story anyways. My mom worked night shift as a receptionist for a hotel. One of the nights she heard shouting coming from down the hallway. A man wearing a dress shirt and absolutely no pants was walking up and down the halls, saying he was needing a bath and couldn’t find the bathtub. My mom had the guy escorted out and a few hours later he called, extremely confused as to why he was in a different hotel. When my mom explained what had happened, she could hear how mortified he was. Apparently the man had had surgery and was on new meds for the pain.
I went to one that had both adults and youths but in different hallways, except the second time I went I had to go into the adult hallway, nothing too bad besides this one grown man who triggered the shit outta me because he kept yelling and banging on the entrance doors to let him out
The old lady calling the nuns penguins while naked killed me
You can't make ghosts out of lollipops.
Yeah. I thought she was going to say "you have to make them out of living people".
I was a supervisor for the state of New York's department of mental health (secure wards) and let me tell you this: It's not a job for the weak of mind/body.
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that poor girl that watched her dad kill himself.. fuck man. How does one even recover from that.
If someone is willing to fistfight Lucifer himself for talking shit about you, that person is a true bro.
9:26 In my experience, it’s been the opposite. I’ve never seen anyone being kept longer than necessary. The hospitals I went to wanted the patients out *ASAP.* Once that patient met a bare minimum requirement of mental “stability,” they discharged you.
I went in with PPD (postpartum depression) when my daughter was 7-months. My depression built and built until best friend found me bawling about how my daughter hated me, I was an awful mom and she knew it, I wasn’t a real mom, so on and so forth. I had started showing symptoms about 6-months earlier but had been told by my obgyn that it was “baby blues,” a totally understandable and common occurrence in parents facing new parenthood. I was young, confused and embarrassed, so I just believed him and didn’t share my thoughts with anyone from then on.
I spent 3 days in the ward because I was “just young and overwhelmed by being a mother, so we’ll give her a little break.” The doctor had so many patients to take care of that they’d release the “least serious” patients as soon they were deemed “ok” and not a moment later.
In my opinion, I think it’s better a doctor keep a patient an extra week or two for caution’s sake since mental illnesses are so complicated than release them early because “eh, they’re fine cuz they stopped crying or because their unlife attempt wasn’t _that_ serious.”
I'm 19 and I was a patient in the psych ward many times. The things that left me speechless are the 4 people who killed themself. Specifically a friend of mine, who I thought was better and we talked hours before she jumped from that bridge. RIP
Why is the vaseline man funny?
"My neeples"
he was too slippery to catch
Greased up not deaf guy.
I am a psych nurse. Definitely not everyone should work in this field. We commonly debate whether someone new will make it.
I do have stories, but don't like people to laugh at the express of my patients. In fairness, here in the breakroom I showed this to my coworkers and we laughed at our own stories
Blood stains? Use peroxide.
And no, it will not bleach your clothes.
Yes, you have definitely BTDT.
Or cold water with just a bit of salt. But yes, peroxide is perfectly safe.
Elizabeth Lingurar
I didn’t know that! Thanks for the tip in case I’m ever out of peroxide.
Katie Moehring no worries fam! Good luck with your bloody mishaps! 🙂
Elizabeth Lingurar
Ha! You as well!
*”YOU FREAKING PENGUINS ARE GONNA BURN IN HELL.”*
In regards to the 'cover self in vaseline story' i have a cousin who did that when she was about 2. Except she got outside and we had to run after her; since we were at an apartment complex near a busy road.
I heard a story from the Drake building at the infamous Trenton Psychiatric Hospital. A young lady kept going out in the hall at night asking staff and other patients for blankets, sheets and pillows. It finally got to the point someone went into her room and saw she was stoking a fire.
I'd enjoy it if the alarm was triggered, and everyone had to be evacuated. Also, if certain members of staff burned, that would be awesome.
The Vaseline story is the best😂
"Ohps"
"you fricking penguins are going to burn in heck" lmaooooo :')
I am surprised by the amount of people eating each other 😂
I wonder what my psych ward nurses be saying about me🤔🤔
0:53 reminds me of the greased up dead guy from family guy lmao!
on the psych ward i worked on in the early 2000, i was a nurse, we had a woman who said her husband was a spy and that the government was looking for her and she told us she was hiding in the hospital so they wouold not find her. Then one day two men from the governement, they literally looked like MIBs, came in and told us they were taking her out. If any of us did anything to try stop them they would arrest us. The woman was on my MAR list, she was one of the patients assigend to me, and the charge nurse told me to walk away, go in the break room. we never saw her again
creepy
Mental health work isn't for everyone but I find it fascinating. The psych nurses I know are wonderful and I'm lucky to work in an area that has a really lovely psych ward. I'm a community support worker not a psych nurse so I look after clients in community but they are all awesome and somewhat bizarre. I admire their courage.
I'm glad you managed to find decent psych nurses. Many of them deserve all the horrors the patients deliver, and far more.
Cool to see so many Nurse students taking clinicals. Can resonate with fellow student nurses having no part in psych. Had a fun time with mine and will never do it again. My notable experiences include a woman who thought she was the reincarnation of ghandi and knew all the cosmos secrets and introduced herself to me with the opening line of "shame what happened to pluto" and a man who ended every string of thoughts with "n**** I die for a reason"
'Cut off a butt check and threw it at me.' ............................................ For once, I have no words.
Psych patient my ex worked with: violent junkie. She was on a gurney with wrist restraints in a hospital gown. The nurse had to step out to consult with the doctor. Apparently she was VERY flexible because she had a lighter in some oriface and set herself on fire.
I worked at a memory care unit as a maintenance man. It was a lock down unit and this lady would follow Me and ask if her family was coming. Or she would ask me to hold the door for her so she could leave. She walked around for 10 hours a day.
if someone ever tries to put me in there either they or i am gonna die before
and i feel sad for many of the people on both sides of all this
I believe I would be freaking pissed if I had blood spat in my face, not just upset that my clothes were getting ruined lol
computer generated voice at start: speeEEechless.
Me: choking on my saliva laughing!😂😂😂😂
“I’m a cat burglar! I’m the joker!”
“I’m Batman!!”
This one broke me XD
The guy with the Vaseline took notes from the greased up deaf guy.
5:55 That can't be the first time the nuns heard themselves being called penguins. LoL
19:22 LoL @ "sorry I'm not that good looking" good comeback.
The Elizabeth one made me very unexpectedly start crying
28:19 Peter… the horse is here
l am a retired psych nurse. what did a patient do that left me speechless? one did a Exorcist on me and project vomit all over me and in my mouth.
Man there's a lot of crazy and disturbing shit in this video. Psych ward-yeah.
11:49 that was one of the reason a lot of mental health hospital was closed 1981. And the people were dumped on to the streets.
"IM BATMAN BITCH!!!"😂😂😂 I CAN'T! I just can't!
The old lady who thought the nurse was her daughter was so sad 😢..
I never stayed in a psych ward but when I was younger I was consistently checked into one because my insomnia was so bad I had really bad hallucinations, I'm olny fourteen and my grandmother(and absulute bitch btw)is still trying to get my mom to put me in a ward because I had suicidal tendencies at one point.