A Funny Thing that Happened in the Psych Ward | Tales from the Schiz

[@abbleshawce]

when i was admitted i met a little kid named chrishawn who taught me how to freestyle rap by 'sipping the champagne bottle from the sky', or acting like your singing into a microphone while looking up. For whatever reason....freestyle rapping is what made my brain reorganize and changed the way i thought. Thats what brought me out of psychosis and out of the psych ward

[@SandyTheDesertFox]

Oh lord. It's rather inappropriate in a way, but also iconic enough that i can't help but share it over and over again. Behold the tale of the yaoi psych ward nurse So when i was hospitalized in the spring of 2018, myself 17 at the time i took a manga (Japanese comic book) of my favorite show with me for comfort. It's called RWBY, with a lot of kickass female characters that i loved in general but also helped me come to terms with my lesbianism. So one day this new nurse comes in, a guy, probably like 26 years old? He sees me with the manga and he just kinda goes "Ah." I didn't know what was so interesting to him and i honestly didn't care because my meds were giving me a killer headache. Next day though, he comes up to me and pulls me aside. He tells me to follow him so i do. He takes me to the reception and goes "wait here." He goes into the little office space behind the reception. Out he comes with a box. He drops it on the table in front of me. "Thought you might like these" I look, turns out it's a book filled with Japanese gay erotica (yaoi) I'm honestly baffled at this point, the images are really explicit. I asked him where he got them and he told me they were his, because he's gay and a friend got him into it or something like that. I told him i appreciated the gesture but i wasn't gonna enjoy it much since i, too, was gay and did not get much excitement from naked men We had a genuine heart-to-heart about being gay and i think of it fondly. Looking back giving stuff like that to a mentally ill minor in your care probably wasn't a wise decision, but i think it was sincerely meant to help

[@SchizoKitzo]

RWBY is something I watched up until the last few seasons! I remember being late to class in high school when the Red trailer dropped, it’s a great show I can’t remember why I stopped. But this was a funny story and I thank you for sharing it. Quite humorous!

[@JeffAiken-ui6hk]

Psych wards must be the same the world over. I so remember the ciggies, the deals, the crazy stories, the tiny outside space, the high barbed wire fence and no windows. I was the only non smoker and the funniest thing that happened was getting a head injury from one of the psych assistants violently opening the nursing station door on me. Being legally blind I didn't realize what was happening

[@jan-owennugent1932]

The wards I went to sometimes had windows but never cigarettes

[@michaelwiner3893]

I don’t know if everyone will find this funny, but one time I was admitted to this place around 3am and I’m sitting there waiting for all the intake stuff, and this guy started goose-stepping up and down the hall yelling “We’re all going to hell”. That was my introduction to the ward at that time. He ended up being a pretty cool dude though.

[@SchizoKitzo]

I met some wild people myself who started off on weird feet for sure!

[@nutterts]

Ok, story time! We didn't have barbed fences, we had a smoking room back in 2000 when I was there between now (28nov) and the day before x-mas. There was this rule that the smoking room coould not be decorated in anyway because, and I quote, "the smoking area should not be inviting". But everyone there at that moment was a smoker. At 6pm there always was a transfer meeting and we knew they're all be in they're central glass room not paying to much attention, especially to that corner of the ward. So in that time we moved all x-mas decorations for the living room area to the smoking room in defiance! I'll never forget the face of the nurse when she came to check and saw it. Instead of causing a scene, they let us have that night but when we woke up... it was all gone.

[@SuseMck994]

I remember the mad rush (the only time anyone moved with real purpose in the psych ward) was 10am every week day. A few nurses and those who were allowed to go out for a walk would congregate at the door, and all the smokrs would rush to place their orders with cash in hand, for the original nurse delivery service 🤣

[@wishywashy7000]

TALES FROM THE SCHIZ YOU ARE A LITERARY GENIUS

[@annasfakianaki7979]

😂 When I was at the psych ward there were some patients that were tied to their beds in some rooms with their doors open. There was a table for table tennis in the hall room and I was playing with the ball bouncing it between the rackets. I guess it was a soothing sound and one tied patient started trying to make moves with the bed and eventually came out of the room WITH the bed to the corridor to see who it was. It was SO funny!!! I suppose he enjoyed the sound haha. But the nurses put him back shortly after 😅😅😅

[@annasfakianaki7979]

I mean I hope it was a soothing sound

[@gckinsey]

Your Tales from the Schiz are always entertaining, and this one was no exception! That guy spinning an elaborate lie about where he got his cigarettes makes me think of something Wei Wuxian would say when he gets called out on breaking the rules at the Cloud Recesses, lol... same energy. XD Also the fact that he got to finish his cigarette cracks me up. Thank you for sharing this!

[@fredrikbergquist5734]

I also were in the closed clinic for a month. We didn’t have any ward to smoke but there was this 40sqft room with an eternal smog, you didn’t need any cigarette there to smoke! 😂 Being there was interesting in many ways, no-one was violent, just very depressive. I got medication that made me sleepy. There was a small library and I found a copy of ”Mein kampf” by Adolf Hitler. That must have been the weirdest time in my life!

[@witchdylan]

I was forced off cigarettes and alcohol and weed and not given anything except nicotine gum, I got upset and then they strapped me to a table and made me piss myself multiple times

[@ChrisSummers-AlienFaeRE]

Sadly these tactics are common enough. Anything will be used to maintain control over patients.

[@catherines_castle]

We watched distant fireworks on the 4th of July from our bedroom windows which of course couldn’t be opened to hear them. Silent fireworks turned out to have that familiar hallucinatory quality.

[@ThomasMuethingDotCom]

I honestly was shocked in your earlier videos when you said there were people who smoked in the hospital. This was a cute story. Thanks.

[@taylorsteiner9273]

I got one more....the first time in my Dad came to visit. We looked alot alike back then so we had the idea to swap clothes so I could see of i could get past the gatekeepers and get out. It didn't work but we had a good laugh about it 😊

[@SchizoKitzo]

That sounds like a wild, albeit unsuccessful, escape attempt!

[@taylorsteiner9273]

@@SchizoKitzo yeah the nurses laughed too lol

[@FenrirWolfganger]

Not psych ward but with psychiatrist, only being going to him for a few months. One day I've expressed basically nutty opinions (BPD) and he's patiently reasoning with me until I throw my hands over my face and yell "Stop making sense"... Well, I clearly meant it but😂

[@johnphantom]

You are lucky you don't smoke. 90% of us schizophrenics and 50-60% of us bipolars use nicotine in some form. We are obviously self medicating with numbers like that.

[@xronald619x]

@@johnphantom I vape like a chimney

[@EpicStrZ]

Zyn time for me

[@alsbigsmoke]

Im schizophrenic and I smoked since I was young, I recently got off tobacco and started vaping.

[@andrewoats]

When I was in the psych ward I was prescribed a nicotine patch and I don’t smoke. They just add it to everyone’s med list because smoking rates are so high among crazy people.

[@jan-owennugent1932]

Been nicotine free about a month

[@taylorsteiner9273]

I was playing the game trouble with another patient and we had been playing for 10min or so and he was winning. He only had to roll one more place to win. But my turn was up and i rolled the exact right number to jump him and win. We looked at eachother and laughed pretty good 😂

[@ChelseaG.-nm7rl]

So karaoke night was like every night at this hospital I went in-patient at. There was this rather magnetic, rather Narcissistic, or should I say very definition of, older man wailing away at AC/DC’s “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap,” like it needed to be said because he was surrounded by women all fighting for his affections. He went as far as to buy all the nurses roses then try to explain to his wife what he had done and why. She was not having it. Was rather one-sided. Anyway, she had to foot the bill. I even watched the first “True Grit” with this guy. Some serious game he brought.

[@jan-owennugent1932]

Wow I’ve been in the psych ward like 20 times and they never let us smoke. But one time my roommate snuck tobacco in and we smoked, and then he got kicked out of the psych ward. They didn’t even move him to another hospital

[@theresas740]

I wasn't inpatient at the time, but this during a regular session with my psych NP who writes my meds. Now everyone knows what Christian Nationalism is but this was about 4 years ago. So i'm trying to explain the threat of Dominionist/Christian Nationalist activity that's been gaining power for decades and my NP isnt following. I try a second time from a different angle. Then I realize: "You are a mental patient trying to explain a secret conspiracy between the Government and the Church. To your Psychiatrist. Just stop."

[@aaronburratwood.6957]

I was on the fifth floor around the same time and they gave the smokers nicotine patches. No one went past the red line on floor in front of the first set of double doors. Unless you were escorted and leaving.

[@brandonhansen7998]

I’ve known so many people who smoke and bum cigarettes off of others. Soooo many people

[@eco2geek.]

These days, where I live, cigarettes cost ~$10/pack (!) and every hospital campus in town is "smoke-free". So everyone who goes into a psych ward these days is probably going to have to quit cold turkey. Being committed to a psych ward *and* not being able to smoke would not be fun.

[@jan-owennugent1932]

This damn country

[@BBB-vm7xu]

I’ve always wanted to ask if there is any difference between your dreams and the dreams of a person who dosen’t experience psychosis? I'm really curious! Love your videos and as a psychology student I appreciate the inside you offer to your illness! I belive it helps a lot of open minded professionals on this field to better themselves! Wishing you all the best!

[@JeffAiken-ui6hk]

I specialize in psychotic nightmares that seem to go on the whole night and leave me wrecked for the day. Zyprexa doesn't stop them and they even seem worse on bigger doses

[@xronald619x]

One time I was at the psychward and a fight broke out during visitation hours a patient went at it with someone's family member, staff immediately grabbed the patient, injected him and put him in seclusion he slept for two days straight

[@AGameCharacter]

That’s intelligent deflection 😂

[@marc31415]

the nurses gave us cigarettes back in 2009

[@professorJorge11]

I've got the Schiz, and smoking for decades

[@xronald619x]

@@professorJorge11 I vape like a chimney

[@roberttravers7587]

Great video!😁

[@sarahakin]

Why can't people share cigarettes? I don't smoke but that seems a bit cruel.

[@SchizoKitzo]

Yeah I thought it was a weird rule myself

[@SamirCCat]

@@SchizoKitzo I believe it's because no one should "owe" another person cigarettes, like be in debt. If you're in for a long time there's no way to pay it back to a stranger who's out already. Debt could also lead to fights, stress or anxiety. And since it's the same rules in Sweden where I live, I'm guessing it's universal everywhere. I don't even smoke, lol.

[@MidnightOtter-19]

So do you see and hear things constantly? I'm not diagnosed with anything but I see, feel, and hear things constantly. I can blindfold myself and still see the movements of my arms and hands but it doesn't look like me and the things I constantly see are weird.

[@SchizoKitzo]

I do not thanks to meds!

[@cuddlebug8106]

This story gave me deja vu. Are you sure it’s not in another video? 🤔

[@lnvalliencia3440]

It popped up and the popped off. 😁

[@Catnipvalentine]

Have you ever thought you were channeling the spirit world like a psychic medium ?

[@XrsN]

barbed wire? it's a hospital not a prison. people are being helped not punished. what's the 'helping professionals' thinking? being rational actors, the mentally ill will be deterred from leaving by the fear of being torn to shreds by the barbed wire? ottawa canada

[@juliemauger6183]

Many people are there on an involuntary basis. One psych ward I was in had metal bars. And security guards by the entrance. And padded cells, without the padding. Cold, cement floors and walls. Patients are forced to take medication against their will, others have ECT, also against their will. Sure, rather laugh than cry about it, but being inside a psych ward is not exactly a picnic

[@juliemauger6183]

Oh, & when you're psychotic, you're not particularly rational. It doesn't mean it's right to coerce you to undergo treatments that you can't give informed consent to.

[@XrsN]

@@juliemauger6183 my mother had schizophrenia in the 70's and had ect. when i took an overdose, i too experienced being forced to stay in hospital and how authoritarian staff could be

[@damnablethief]

Some of the rules, while they do serve a purpose, feel stupid restrictive. I was in in a place back in 2016 that was faith based recovery...it was ridiculous, we couldn't do much of anything, could only read the bible, christian literature, and the AA handbook (this was a detox, but seems relevant since my past drug problems were me self medicating) and they had that same rule too. No sharing cigs...idk we had one dude who was diabetic and on insulin...they wouldn't let him have it because it was an injection, and they had a strict rule about no needles...idk if he lived or not. I saw him leave on a stretcher a couple of days in. Wasn't a pleasant experince, watching him suffer. It wasn't a pretty sight. But ya, another reason why I avoid any faith based recovery, church...all that. Been an atheist for years and I am pretty sure my mind is made up.

[@damnablethief]

Sorry, I tend to ramble

[@alwaysmiss12]

would you consider making a discord community maybe in the future?

[@Alxndr57834]

Do you think this person made up a ridiculous lie in purpose or do you think he was mentally unwell and genuinely believed there was a pop up shop in the courtyard?

[@WWS322]

maybe there was a pop up shop. don't be so doubting.

[@horizonblack]

😛

[@SchizoKitzo]

🤔

[@petercampbell386]

As a fellow schizophrenic, I found it, most impossible, too get respect from people, when they found out I was mental. And respect in the workplace, was non existent. Its, sad too see, you calling yourself a skitz. It is not what you are, please dont focus on the illness. Its not what its about anyway, its getting yourself together, and getting your act together. And perhaps being your own boss. Living right, and being righteous, is what its about. I am glad that you dont smoke. The only psyc ward story, that might be a bit funny, but not too me, was when a staff member, pissed in my bowl of soup, fed that too me, and snickered with laughter, behind a door. I knew, from the first mouthful, that he had pissed in it. I didnt eat the rest, and I knew what he was laughing about. Its just another example, of the lack of respect, for the mentally ill. I know my haters will think it was funny. And the staff member got away with it, as they usually do. Perhaps, with your videos, you could better help, other mentally ill people, get their act together. Get them off drugs, off bad habits, like smoking and drinking heavily. Stable, on a therapeutic dose of medication. And keep them out of hospital. I usually keep my mental illness, top secret. As I cannot get any respect, any other way.. Only amongst other mentally ill people, who understand, and people who are close too me, do I get respect.

[@toddolson3521]

Hmnnm outrageous yes... funny? .... Count your blessings you are very fortunate to have only spent a week...

[@SchizoKitzo]

Oh I do, trust me!

[@PaulFlint-po9jl]

3 months for me. Then another 4 times all for Mania and acute manic psychosis

[@lisatomihiro3488]

😆

[@PaulFlint-po9jl]

I've given you a shout-out on my channel. So you get more likes etc. I will be talking about my bipolar etc. while I go on nature walks. Hope this is ok for you. Your channel has been an inspiration for me, to destigmatize mental illness. All the best, Paul

[@Gabe94dotcom]

Nice

[@ChrisSummers-AlienFaeRE]

Heh. .hello strangah opens duffle coat cigarette shop

[@SchizoKitzo]

Okay this made me snort 😂

[@traserx]

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