Nurses of psych wards, what did a patient do that left you speechless?

[@UnderSparked]

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[@Omy-p1x]

Ok

[@leo-fe1mv]

i am currently on a psych ward with schizoaffective disorder and according to the nurses, one night I became delusional snd thought that the ghost of the Queen of England was my long lost mother and was coming to visit me so I slept on the floor so she could have the bed. Not as extreme as any of these but quite funny. I'm glad I can look back and laugh at it.

[@__ru_]

LOL

[@BombBusiness]

Haha, that was a pretty good story. Didnt know you could have tech in a psych ward

[@Ifinallychangedthis]

@@BombBusinesssome of them allow it, was put in one few years back 😭 but it was limited

[@my.fav.no..is.12.point.9]

Will I go to hell for rolling around laughing from that?

[@amyeli33]

I'm surprised you can use your phone there. The places in this area don't allow them.

[@erichinkle7891]

I worked as a CNA on an Alzheimer’s ward. We had this one lady that would always hit on me. I never wanted to hurt her feelings so I would make up an excuse as to why we couldn’t Shnook(😬🤢) I once told her I couldn’t because I had to go to work, she looked me dead in the eyes and said “ well hunny you could work on me”. I turned a million shades of red and ran out of the room lol🤦‍♂️

[@puppydogs68]

Oh no 😭😂🤣

[@starrby7790]

Lady had rizz and confidence.

[@Ra1ndr0p]

More like the rizz ward goddamn 💀

[@mineandmine4528]

Eewwww

[@chroniclesofoddities8893]

BRO YOU MISSED OUT💀

[@trashpanda9380]

I was a patient in a psych ward. One of the nurses was convinced that I wasn't taking showers because I was done showering in about 5 minutes. She always said that I wasn't showering and threatened to lock me in the bathroom to make sure that I would shower. On my last day there, I stayed in that fucking shower for 3 hours straight. When I got out, the nurse just looked at me and I said "I took a longer shower tonight. Hope you don't mind."

[@A_Borden_History]

I hope you reported that nurse, as a psychiatric nurse we aren’t allowed to say that to the patients Its actually a major liability

[@GloomyFish]

that's a horrible nurse right there

[@trashpanda9380]

Sadly I never reported her. I didn't realize that I could do that when I was there. I was more focused on getting the fuck out as fast as possible.

[@Hollyucinogen]

I used to take 5-minute showers in the hospital too, because they would barge in there to check on you to ask if you were okay every 10 minutes. It's not easy, but it is possible. In the hospital before that, though, I didn't get to shower for 2 years (my hair was so matted that I had to cut it all off and get a special medicated shampoo from my hairdresser), so I guess that's fine. 🤷‍♀️

[@trashpanda9380]

@Hollyucinogen outside of that place, I'll take 30 minutes to 1 hour per shower because that's the one place I can fully relax without having to worry about anything. When I was in there, I was extremely scared that someone would break through the door and attack me, so I took very quick showers to lessen the amount of time I spent being vulnerable. I also learned how to sleep on my back in case I needed to spring up and protect myself (I'm usually a side/stomach sleeper). But hey, it's been 7 years since I was in that place, so I guess it all worked out.

[@user-ix3jx9hf7r]

You have to remember that these are people (or completely made up stories for clout lol) and that they are really struggling. Don’t just think damn they are crazy because any one can end up like that in the right circumstances. Remember to give them respect

[@therealjammit]

I view their brain being "broke" the same as an arm being broke.

[@plantboy6249]

Doesn't change the fact that sych ward patients are crazy. It's why they're there.

[@inuslava]

@@therealjammit oh i see, so if you have pneumonia your lungs are broke?

[@therealjammit]

@@inuslava Sort of. We can heal from a broken arm, or pneumonia. Someday we'll understand the brain better and will be able to mend it.

[@LibertyPowell]

I've had mental illness and known people with mental illness and their right it is just that their brain is broken

[@ellesandralady8596]

I respect nurses and doctors because they deal with sad, heartwarming, and sometimes stupid patients. To delivering a baby into the world, bringing sad news like death or a serious illness, to dealing with people who are dealing with mental health stuff

[@hisshoota]

The animal that ‘spits blood as a defense mechanism’ is a species of lizard who actually shoot blood from their eyes to horrify, confuse, and disgust predators for enough time to escape.

[@axelf9947]

The horned lizard, yeah! It actually has chemicals in its blood that makes it smell and taste awful for the predators that get hit with it, so that’s what makes them back off lol. It’s similar to how a skunk’s spray works in that regard.

[@uranian-Umbra]

It’s the equivalent of that one person who got catcalled after some dental surgery and just let a bunch of blood out of their mouth and scared the catcaller away

[@llamawalrushybrid]

Somewhat similar in method to the hedgehog. Which coats its quills in dirty stuff so that you get poked and hopefully infected

[@R3spect_y0urse1f-Br4ge]

And then run after the car laughing. IM DOING THAT NOW LMFAO ITS SO FUNNY WHEN YOU ACTUALLY THINK ABOUT IT​@@uranian-Umbra

[@woo-sahbodyworks5859]

I came here to say this

[@CedarBlankenship]

It’s absolutely ridiculous that you can’t use the word suicide, but you can describe the ways people try to ‘un-alive’ themselves.

[@rykatemom]

Gotta love the stupid algorithms and refusal of parents to monitor their children's social media/phone/internet. Causes asinine crap like "un-aliving" oneself. It isn't freaking "un-aliving", its SUICIDE, and to bring awareness, proper terminology needs to be used. Not griping at the content creater/channnel, but at KZbin's stupidity.

[@pamelaadam9207]

It really does not help suicide awareness and reduction going back like this. Suicide and completed suicide needs to be named.

[@CedarBlankenship]

@@pamelaadam9207 Totally agree. If someone wants to commit suicide, they won’t be dissuaded just because you used the phrase un-alive in your KZbin video. Plus there are tons of opportunities for comedy with the whole stupid thing. I like to imagine all of the hilarious shit George Carlin would have to say about all this new sensitive Gen Z pussy language. He’d have a field day.

[@tiamod]

It’s just censorship in general and it’s really stupid. It’s not as if we don’t hear worse in real life on a daily basis

[@CedarBlankenship]

@@tiamod You got that right.

[@recognizablebrandname]

I feel like the OP was expected “horrible psychopath stabbed me ahhhhhhh” but really, psych wards are just places for people to get the help they need. It’s important to respect those who are/were in them, and also need to understand that they are *people* too.

[@paulk8072]

That is generally true, although meth-induced psychosis is a whole other matter.

[@recognizablebrandname]

@@paulk8072 fair. Still something deserving of empathy; addiction is a disease, and a horrible one at that.

[@paulk8072]

@@recognizablebrandname I agree, although they really put pressure on the system and other patients suffer from the resources being redirected to contain them. I understand that the selfishness is chemical based, due to dependance.

[@Elodie-xi3pp]

I’ve been to a psych ward, we are human, but there is a lot of crazy things that go on there. They are funny surreal and traumatizing all at once those places destroy you. I feel like the OP expected stories like. A whole unit of pre-ads decided to make havoc in the middle of the night, running up and down the hallways. Not horrible like that.

[@eminempreg]

Yeah I've been in the psych ward twice and people def think it's so lawless circus . When really it's like. Idk. I've met some of the nicest people there. Like yeah it might be a little unsettling when your roommate mutters to himself every moment of the day, but when you actually to them they're just people.

[@GailGrandel]

I was on a psych ward for just one night. I have debilitating anxiety and some how putting me in an isolation room was thought to be a good idea. I was not checked on once during that night and every time I came out of the room to go to the bathroom, the security guards laughed at me. The girl in the next room was beating her head against the wall, and it sounded like a watermelon hitting cement. She asked for a drink of ginger ale as her blood sugar was out of whack. I heard the nurse and the security guards egg her on and laugh at her. Don't tell me about the compassion shown by these supposed angels of mercy. Let us add that the medication I was on was slowly poisoning me. I was on four times the safe dosage. The fine psychiatrist that saw me in the morning said there was nothing wrong with my meds and sent me home. Later blood tests showed that I was suffering from Valproic Acid poisoning, which can kill you. I have little faith in the mental health care system.

[@thefriendlyallay]

ok that's too much shit to leave you alive i call made up

[@GailGrandel]

Call it what you want, it happened. If you haven't been through it, don't bash someone else.@@thefriendlyallay

[@bunnylacy2097]

I completely understand what it is like to be failed by the medical system but I try to remind myself that their are nurses who are angels on earth. There are doctors who care and put the work in to find out what’s wrong and do their best to help. There are EMTs who put their lives at risk to save others. There are good medical professionals out there. Unfortunately there’s also horrible ones and those ones shouldn’t be in that field. They spoil it for the good ones because people who are failed and laughed it may not seek care later on or they may lie to their doctors later on out of fear or may be rude because of how they were failed previously. It makes the good ones have to work even harder. It also makes patients suffer. Sometimes they die because of these horrible staff members. But just know, good ones are out there. I have many chronic illnesses. Physical and mental. I’ve been abused by a nurse in hospital. I’ve been laughed at my nurses. Dismissed by doctors. I’ve left many a doctors office crying or left the hospital crying because the ER doctor refused to even make sure I was okay while bleeding out of my ass while having a history of gastric varcies (basically something that can cause deadly internal bleeding of the GI tract if not treated right away). Luckily it wasn’t the gastric varices bleeding… thank god! But point is, I know how badly they can fail us.. but I’ve also come across wonderful doctors, nurses, etc. that went above and beyond to help me and showed me that they actually care. Don’t let this stop you from reaching out for care if / when you need it. Advocate for yourself and whenever possible have someone you trust with you to advocate for you especially when you’re too sick to do so yourself. Always listen to your gut. I’m so sorry they treated you and the other people there that way.

[@bunnylacy2097]

@@thefriendlyallaymaybe don’t comment if that’s how you feel because if it’s not made up, which I wouldn’t be surprised if it is true just from my own personal experience with medical care, it’s a horrible thing of you to say… to invalidate their experience. So, if there’s even a chance in your head that this story is real then you should really keep your negative comments to yourself.

[@thefriendlyallay]

@@bunnylacy2097 jesus christ use enter dude it's not that hard

[@lovelylonely974]

When I first got in psych ward I was horrified, I think I age regressed (unvoluntarily, trauma based) so the nurses talked to me like a kiddo for a while until I felt better and snapped out of it. They were really nice. God bless them. ❤❤❤

[@RoseQuartz-fe4xv]

Age regressed?

[@basilcreates8146]

@@RoseQuartz-fe4xvage regression is a person reverting to a younger state of mind psychologically

[@RoseQuartz-fe4xv]

@@basilcreates8146 Thank you!

[@MarkGray-r5v]

To how old?

[@exoticjadeyyy]

@@MarkGray-r5vprobably 3-10 if they talked to them like that

[@cynthiaholland13]

Not doing voices for mentally ill people is respectful. You got a new subscriber

[@SnaltyPotato2]

Same

[@thereadingextrovert]

Yes! I thought the same.

[@saltykitty9215]

He literally mocked a woman's funny accent one minute ago before saying that 💀💀💀💀

[@g.sergiusfidenas6650]

A pal of mine had to interview a really disturbing patient once, he claimed he had killed numerous sex workers out of "love" as being him the son of one he thought to be liberating them from the same horrible life his mom had lived. As far I know there is no proof he truly was a serial killer, no physical evidence and even the "cases" he provided most details did not match any missing person or cold case so is quite possible it was all in his mind but to him it was real and my friend told me he was quite convincing in that regard and he felt immense relief once that assigment was over even if by that point he already was aware the police were almost certain that those "murders" had never been real.

[@Totally_NOTANAI]

Jack the ripper?

[@AdorableFloof1999]

My only thing about this is that because he claimed to be murdering prostitutes it could be they weren't reported missing or the cops just didn't care enough to investigate thoroughly due to them being prostitutes. There's a serial killer in Canada named Robert Pickton and he murdered prostitutes, most were indigenous women, and even though they actually were reported the cops brushed it off and said they probably just moved suddenly or went with a john or whatever and he wasn't discovered, even though I think he was reported for suspicious activities once or twice, until someone reported him for owning firearms and then they discovered he had killed at least 26 women, he claims to have killed 49, and was only charged for 6 of them, all second degree (he didn't plan to murder them at first) even though there was evidence it should have been first degree (the murder is planned out) and he is going to be released in 2027 because the life sentence in Canada is only 25 yrs.

[@g.sergiusfidenas6650]

@@AdorableFloof1999 it might be, I am aware that a lot of killers target sex workers not only because they are easier preys but also because they are low priority cases even if they are reported missing at all, so one cannot completely discard the possibility that that guy might had been one of numerous anonymous serial killers but in this case it seems that regardless of how real were those fantasies for him thankfully it seems there were just that. My friend and I talked about that particular experience more than once (long time after the fact) and he gave me plenty of details but without revealing identities or specific places and dates or crossing any line that could get him in trouble in an ethics review or with the police for revealing details about the investigation even if by that point it already had been closed and the guy dismissed as suspect; it seems this guy's whereabouts through most of his adult life had been rather easy to track since he has been in and out of jail and mental institutions for petty crimes and incidents related to his deteriorating mental state and substance abuse and while there are some completely blank periods in his timeline, some of his alleged murders took place during periods in which he was locked up and besides a bar brawl the rest of his crimes are non-violent. Now to completely dismiss his claims the police would have to investigate and disprove each one of them and they probably ain't gonna do that but the info they gave my friend seems convincing enough to make him think that the guy is indeed a very sick and even potentially dangerous person but one whose dark fantasies have not been put into action.

[@Curlyblonde]

Fortunately we don't have to worry about him anymore getting out of prison.

[@soundpreacher]

I was a patient in the Army. Everyone there was suicidally depressed except for one guy. I don’t know why he was there in the first place, but he was going to be discharged. However, he refused to answer to his name. I mean, as if he wouldn’t acknowledge that was him. I think he had been there for about 9 months, getting E-6 pay deposited into his bank account and having no responsibilities. Not sure if he was insane or brilliant.

[@sparklepugtea]

Certified genius right there 😂

[@JFKismyhusband_]

Thank you for your service, I hope you’re doing better

[@D.C.L.ANTECHRIST]

one time I was in the ER waiting to be transferred to a psychiatric facility, and the ER was full so they had everyone who wasn't terminally ill had to sit in chairs. I was sitting next to this dude and he was high out of his mind. We struck up a conversation and I asked him what he was in for. he lifted his hospital gown to reveal that his leg was obviously broken. He started giggling, and I didn't know what to say so I just sort of.. sat there. Eventually he stopped giggling, tapped me on the shoulder, looked me right in the eyes, and said "there is always someone out there who loves you. and if there is a god, then he isn't good enough for us. never let anyone jump off your rollercoaster." I thanked him, I didn't know what else to say. and he said "Don't thank me, thank scientists." and that was it, not a peep out of him after that. no context, nothing. I got moved to a bed. i wonder how he's doing now. I hope he didn't let anyone fall off his rollercoaster, whatever that means

[@SarafinaSummers]

It means don't let someone walk out of your life without a fight.

[@GigiBranconi]

Nice dude

[@JackFrost008]

rollercoaster? could he mean rollerscates?

[@addinoir]

i’m so glad people are able to share their stories and the stories of other people. as someone who’s gone through (and still going through)severe depression and has attempted suicide twice, i tend to view things differently from others; especially since i have an abusive father and i was constantly yelled at and made fun of because of my issues by him and by my classmates, unable to truly express how i feel. It warms my heart knowing people can talk about it and get support, but breaks my heart that people go through terrible things. 10/4/24 edit: I doubt anyone will see this, but yes I am alive! i almost attempted again after ANOTHER heartbreak, but I didn’t, keyword almost. My parents still don’t understand me, and I doubt they ever will. I have autism and adhd, and that’s just the start. I’ve been bullied my whole life, and I was put in a mental hospital when I was 8. I don’t even remember it. I honestly don’t remember a lot of my childhood either, and I don’t think I would even call it a childhood since I matured so quickly and never got the chance to be a kid. I’m still struggling a lot, and i’ve thought of giving up countless times, but I haven’t. Please don’t give up. I love you.

[@LibertyPowell]

This is gonna be such a weird question but do you have brothers named Nate and mason

[@AnaCarolina23y]

which country was that?

[@thefriendlyallay]

call a prevention hotline now.

[@addinoir]

@@LibertyPowell nope lol, only child

[@addinoir]

@@AnaCarolina23y I’m from the USA

[@omegadragons321]

can’t blame the girl for eating so many pudding cups, that stuff’s good. seriously, if you left me in a room with just pudding cups they’d all be gone within the hour

[@cold5529]

The wards ive been to only had the sugar free pudding cups so they were kinda nasty sadly

[@grebulocities8225]

Along with the spoon.

[@Ranpo_Edogawa954]

I don’t like pudding but if you left me in a room with jello cups they would be gone within 20 minutes

[@GigiBranconi]

Yeah, even the vegan pudding was actually pretty good 👍

[@ChristiColonel]

Yeah, at first I was like this is so G rated and lame. Then sticking the spoon in an incision blew my mind.

[@wolvesbane_and_buttercups]

as a kid i was admitted and i remember a few things; one kid showed me a massive scar accross his stomach that he'd caused himself while trying to kill himself. Two kids constantly got in fights, one even broke his hand punching a nurse. The other kid had to be isolated frequently and even almost started a fight after losing a bet (he did not wanna give up his pudding cup). Somehow, that kid went home first. Me and one other kid got a nurse to play Halloween At Freddys (fnaf fan song) for musical chairs. I got to go trick or treating during 2020 when no one else could bc i was in a psych ward.

[@InsanityMeter]

HALLOWEEN AT FREDDYS!? LMAO

[@wolvesbane_and_buttercups]

@@InsanityMeter it was Halloween and me and the kid both liked fnaf lmao

[@killuanatsume]

@@InsanityMeter I am an adult and I like fnaf there is nothing wrong with that.

[@InsanityMeter]

Ooo here’s an extra story for y’all!! When I was in the mental hospital, at about like 13, I was in the outpatient program , it’s basically school but in a psych-ward + you get to go home, we were in the middle of learning time when this girl randomly said she had to go to the nurse, well she got up and went to the area where the nurse was, I could overhear them talking about how she needed wipes, the nurse closed the door after that and we didn’t know what happened, like an hour later we were in group therapy and she was there for the time-being, somehow it got to the point where they were talking about earlier and the group therapist said to show what happened. She pulled up her pants legs and all we saw was her legs being riddled with fresh bleeding scars, I was in shock and everyone else was too. I recently went back like two weeks ago and I have another crazy story, quite a couple too

[@drgnfsh9006]

The spoon thing is so wild because that stuff happens all the time. Watched a girl eat a chunk of soap three separate times and every time the nurses refused to believe me until one of the staff caught her like 5 minutes later and literally yanked it out of her hands.

[@InsanityMeter]

The mental hospital I was in had to hand out soaps and shampoos because they didn’t want people eating them, also there was no bar soaps allowed because of some people trying to eat them

[@LaughingLlamaLodge]

@@InsanityMeter It does look tasty, ngl...

[@CreativeDrone]

one girl I knew CHEWED THROUGH SCREWS IN HER DOOR

[@drgnfsh9006]

@@CreativeDrone bro did she have diamond teeth or something?

[@CreativeDrone]

@@drgnfsh9006 idk how she managed it LOL

[@WillowTheTherian_]

My friend was put in a ward for depression and said this sweet young woman who had schizophrenia held a blanket everywhere because she thought she had a baby. It sounds wholesome.

[@catharsysgaming]

Makes me think of a time I had been in a psych ward and was chatting it up with a patient and their mother. We all three of us, suddenly were just 'instantly' drawn to a figure walking past the door of the room. Another patient, there for a detoxing, had walked past us in his towel (presumably from the showers, I didn't personally get involved in that) and he had just walked past when the towel fell to the floor. He kept walking as if nothing changed in his world. A few nurses suddenly ran behind him (he was out of eye-shot at this point) helping him to his room and helped him get at least a medical robe on. The three of us were stunned, not able to talk when the mother suddenly was like "Well, that happened.." To this day, I didn't see anything but that towel drop but I never want to see something like that again, period. xD

[@kpbennett7743]

My uncle was a nurse at a psych ward in Illinois during the 70s to 90s. He met both Gacy and Dahmer, and and likes to say they were the more sane people. One story that sticks with me (and even makes me laugh, morbid humor and all that) is when a patient sawed most of his penis off with a crushed soda can. The patient was taken to the ER, escorted by 2 male psych nurses, and was stitched back up. The patient wasn't restrained, and when he learned that he'd have to go back to the psych ward, the patient completely ripped off his penis, stitches and all, and threw it at one of the psych nurses. It hit the guy's face and went down his scrubs. Edit: I stand corrected. He cut off most of his testicles. They managed to save one but the other had to be removed. The man had thrown his remaining test at the nurse. Not his penis.

[@caseyslater09]

No way!!! He met Dahmer!! i need a full story about how it went down, what he was like and all that!!😭😭 And gacy!!

[@kpbennett7743]

@@caseyslater09 not sure what to story is with Dahmer (I'll ask later), but from what I know, Gacy briefly stayed while awaiting transport to Stateville, since the hospital my uncle worked at doubled as a minimum security prison. Edit: apparently it was a similar deal for Dahmer

[@paulk8072]

Dahmer and Gacy had personality disorders which are different from other mental disorders like schizophrenia, depression, bi-polar etc. They are generally of sound mind, as in that they are fully aware of what they are doing, they simply do not care if whatever they do is against the law and lack empathy. Psychopathy and sociopathy are generally incurable illnesses.

[@kpbennett7743]

@@paulk8072 I won't deny that. According to my uncle, the reason Gacy was even in the hospital in the first place (I think for less than a day/24 hours) was bc there was a complication with prison transport, and the hospital itself doubled as a minimum security prison. With Dahmer, similar deal, but he was there for maybe a week.

[@LaughingLlamaLodge]

Wow he met Dahmer? Not sure who Gacy is, but I suppose he's a famous serial killer too, right?

[@greyking8925]

the tooth guy literally sounds like 7 year old me. whenever my tooth was at the beginning stages of becoming loose, no matter the placement, I would grab toilet paper or a tissue, pull out said tooth, then proudly show my mom it. tried to teach some other kids this hack, but it didn't work for them. even pulled out a non-wiggly tooth at a sleepover.

[@millie..]

I LOVE UR ROTTMNT PFP

[@bottering_one]

yo wth how lol

[@enderger5308]

I was recently in a psych ward (I have what currently is diagnosed as depression with psychotic elements) and joked with other patients about eating crayons. The staff said it had already happened and they allowed them because at some point you have to accept the risk of nonlethal injury to allow the patients something.

[@EricLing64]

I think crayons are already nontoxic since there's a chance kids will eat them. There appear to be edible crayons, beeswax at least.

[@Doudou25870]

When my mom was in nursing school, she had an internship in a psych ward. She had a patient that was obsessed with measurements. They had a measure tape and they would mesure EVERYTHING, like when you go to IKEA and can't help but measure all the furniture even if you were never going to buy it in the first place. My mom would come home every night, with new information about the length of her different body parts, it was greatly entertaining.

[@MyLovelyvoice]

I can relate to the first story. I’m a CNA on the “memory care” unit at an assisted living facility (read the people had dementia or Alzheimer’s). One guy was a holocaust survivor and would always try to hide in closets or use furniture to barricade doors & entrances. It was so sad that he was reliving trying to stay alive during that horrible time of his life.

[@dalemartindale5372]

I'm a memory care CNA, too. Saddest story I've dealt with is a woman that paced the halls looking for her children to the point of falling from exhaustion despite getting meds to help her sleep. She cried the entire time. Day and night. That in itself was heartbreaking because she was inconsolable. Found out from her family that all of her 4 children had been murdered in front of her. I cannot understand why she wasn't put into a psych facility so she could get better med management. She didn't have dementia... she was locked in a never ending nightmare. She passed in her sleep and I think her heart just stopped from her endless grief. I hope she found her children waiting for her and finally found peace.

[@kelllefae3026]

We had a holocaust survivor ... he kept stealing food to stash in his wardrobe " in case anything happens " the boss opted to stock his wardrobe with tinned food n takeaway anything that would rot ... it worked and patient became more settled

[@clubbaddie1629]

Did 6 months of clinical rotation through a sate-funded psychiatric facility in nursing school. I had this one girl who had a giant distended belly and I couldn't figure out why (I hadn't read her chart yet). Everything the patients used were only given to them if they came up to the desk and asked permission for it. For example if you wanted a pen, you'd only be given one if you had no history of harming yourself or others with sharp objects and you can only have it for a short, well- monitored amount of time. So this woman with the big belly came to the desk and said to me "can I have some hand sanitizer? That table over there is so gross I just want to wipe it down." In her defense, it was a state facility and yes, the tables and chairs were old and gross. I didn't think anything of it so I handed her a small dixie cup of sanitizer. She took it, walked away, looked back at me, and took it like a shot down the hatch. I then realized why she had a distended belly. She was drinking hand sanitizer because she was addicted to alcohol and thought she could get it through the sanitizer. I looked through the chart after this and everything checked out. Unfortunately for her, all hospital and facility sanitizer is alcohol free for this exact reason, I made sure she knew that.

[@JackFrost008]

she probably died. that slop is NOT a drink.

[@titanicvibes648]

I like how calm you stay throughout all of these

[@strategygalactic]

How should he be?

[@titanicvibes648]

@@strategygalactic Didn’t say it was bad

[@jajajau9136]

The important thing to remember is that all the people in all these stories are human beings who are struggling. Movies and horror stories can lead us to believe that mentally unwell people are dangerous, when really their disorders or illnesses are hurting them more than anyone else (Though, obviously, that doesn't excuse violence). People are at psych wards because they need help, not that they're a danger to people

[@iinsomniick]

i was a patient once and there was this girl repeatedly talking about wanting to harm herself or off herself, and as someone who was there for a self deletion attempt, that triggered me hard and i was in a depressive episode the rest of my stay

[@NadoriKaija]

My mom and I used to both work on the same unit, but at different times. Once there was a pt who had hallucinations...like bad. He was so sick of seeing things he knew weren't there, it was driving him literally insane. He had to be put in a 5-point harness on one of the beds in isolation. Somehow he managed to sit up just enough to contort his body down so he could get his eyes close enough to his hand and proceeded to gouge his eyes out. Sadly for him, you see with the back of your brain, not the eyes themselves. So even after he gouged out his eyes, he was still seeing the hallucinations.

[@cynthiaholland13]

Now this is horrific

[@paulk8072]

Horrible yet interesting. Never knew that was possible.

[@kariissmol9172]

Why restrain someone. Restraints are aweful. Try to sleep in restraints. I'm keeping myself from insults so hrd right now.

[@NadoriKaija]

Restraints are to stop them from being physically violent. They aren't used unless absolutely needed. @@kariissmol9172

[@Larszard]

Oh my goodness that's so incredibly tragic. Instead of stopping the hallucinations he made it so that they were the ONLY thing he could see.

[@marypalmer1027]

I worked as a psych tech while I was obtaining my masters in counseling, The saddest thing I ever saw was a woman In a clearly psychotic state, who was, Strapped down and being wheeled in on a gurney, pleading with the staff saying, " You can't teach through cruelty." This is contrary to what the media would tell you, Mental illness is not fun,but tragic.

[@slowstowns]

i don't talk about it a lot but i spent a week in a mental hospital when i was 15. one day during/after our shower time, i was walking back in my room and glanced into someone else's and saw one of the other patients trying to hang herself on the shower curtain. i ran into her room and untangled her and started giving her cpr (my dad certified me a while prior) and the employees pulled me off of her and refused to let me help, and none of them helped either. she was actively dying in front of us when she could have received cpr, but they wouldn't let us do it. they called 911 and she left on a stretcher. i never saw her again, and they wouldn't tell us what happened to her. i have many horror stories from just my week long stay but this is one of the ones that really sticks with me

[@drez3787]

Story 7 the one about the whiteout... So you are on suicide watch and people tell you you cant have things because you are on suicide watch and pointing out how silly that is because of the myriad of other easily accessible things you could do is just further proof that you should be on watch? What sense does that make? If I hold people against their will because I think they are going to draw on the walls and so I refuse to give them markers and they say "But there are crayons right there. There's pencils over there. I've got finger paints and colored pencils over here. I just want those markers right there." Why would it make sense to go "AHH It's True! You've been thinking of all the things you could use to draw on the walls with!"

[@TigerFucker]

I know! Psych ward doctors/instructors also often never see you in person and just assume "yupp, that's what this patient is truly thinking" and no matter what you say the opinion of the doctor has more weight so you must be lying and trying to un-alive yourself. (sry, if i wrote it a bit aggressive. This story hit too close to home. Have been in 3 psych wards and usually the patients are okay but the nurses are the worst)

[@LibertyPowell]

We had only crayons at mine and we could have paint brushes and paint but only supervised and we had to pay fictional currency for them first

[@SewardWriter]

​@@LibertyPowellFictional currency doesn't sound like a smart thing in a psych ward.

[@LibertyPowell]

@@SewardWriter it was like a point system... This was a kids psych ward so they wanted us to be able to get prizes. We basically got rewarded for participation and had 1 chance per week to buy toys off a cart

[@LibertyPowell]

@@SewardWriter the problem is some kids went home before getting to use it or couldn't behave enough to get points then they would throw a fit

[@WaryJester]

Im sorry- "Quick as snot on a doornob"?? One that doesn't even make sense, and two even if it did thats so gross Also, why would the psych ward remove BIRTH CONTROL? I mean, people are assaulted by other patients all the time. Thats kind of irresponsible ngl

[@alexa_366]

probably an implant that needed replaced that hadnt been replaced yet, or she refused it being replaced. we dont know what kind of birth control it is, or the circumstances.

[@carpathianken]

My sister was sedated & raped by one of the other patients in a psychiatric hospital & the judge let him off with a slap on the wrist because he raped her "gently"

[@carternotsteve2242]

"I'm not doing voices for mental patients, its in poor taste." also him, fifteen seconds prior, "MAI NEEPELS, MAI NEEPELS FOWR DE CHEELDREIN"

[@micahscott3895]

The one with the flirty old lady was just hilarious

[@StaceyGardnerRN]

i have benn a nurse for 30 yrs but half that time i worked in psych. i once worked in a state psych facility. one guy had cut off his manhood. another guy unalived both parents but then stood fast that they were both in the middle east...and the number of stories could go on for an entire 36 hour work week. boy the book we could collectively write!

[@Lachefnoob]

Nah that "you shouldn't stick your lightsaber in your mouth".. Bro had the mind of Anakin

[@CrankyNovelist7335]

When my grandmother started her nursing career, she started in the psych ward. One of the female patients there became obsessed with my grandmother and was convinced they were going to be together. Grandmother told her a couple of times that she was married and wasn't interested in women, but the patient didn't care. One day when grandmother had a day off, she found the patient on her front door. The paitent had apparently convinced herself that she and my grandmother were going to run away with each other. Grandmother was furious and told the patient to leave before she shot her. My mom and her brother were inside the house napping. (This happened in the 70s). Grandmother called the police, who took her back to the hospital. We never figured out exactly how she escaped in the first place.

[@lowellp4603]

Not to make light of the situation but that’s some crazy grandparent lore

[@dogma-z4r]

Not only did she escape she managed to somehow get a loaded gun

[@CrankyNovelist7335]

@@dogma-z4r my grandmother had the gun.

[@dogma-z4r]

@@CrankyNovelist7335 oh I misread

[@robinkelly1770]

I was a sparky at an Adelaide hospital. One day l was changing a safety light in the psych admission section. When l climbed a 10 foot ladder l noticed a single footptint on the ceiling. It hadn't been there a month ago. No furniture in the room, the print was in the middle of the ceiling far from any wall and the ceiling was 13 feet (nearly 4m) from the floor...impressive

[@do3807]

That ice story is perfect lmao

[@jax631]

i was a patient 10+ times and one of those times this older guy got put into seclusion because he was throwing things and punching the walls, anyways they give him the famous "booty juice" and about 30 mins later he walks out of the seclusion room stark naked and started running all around the psych floor. they finally tackled him (took around 4 tecks) and the very next day during lunch he came and sat right next to me and i asked him "aren't you the guy that was running around here a55 naked?' he then turned to me and said "I did that??? are you sure it was me?" i told him to go ask any other patient and the staff that worked yesterday. Once he finds out that it was true he apologized to me and he acted pretty normal after that.

[@alexanderchapman2525]

What is the booty juice?

[@canadiangooseehg2775]

​@@alexanderchapman2525usually a combination of Haldol - an antipsychotic and Ativan - a benzodiazepine injected into the butt muscle that sedates an unruly patient.

[@idkcba]

17:16 It's not they they don't believe you, it's that they have to treat it seriously due to the fact that you're a psych ward patient. Only time I can think of they they would be less inclined to take it seriously is if the person that told them you did something was a known pathological liar.

[@nancyjackson8886]

I could never be a psych nurse. I became a nurse to help people and do what I could to make someone better. Psych nursing is a nightmare. Most times there is no way to make them better. All you can really do is keep them safe. My hat goes off to those that do work in psych nursing it’s a difficult job that takes special people to do it.

[@Kriasr]

I think that this is pretty untrue. A lot of people improve once they are on psych meds. Psych nurses, especially good ones, really have a positive impact on a lot of people. Sometimes people in crisis just need someone to be there for them, or just need to be on meds to help with balancing brain chemicals. I have had good experiences with some psych staff who made things much easier and comfortable for me as I got on meds that stabilized me

[@weedes0001]

I'm not naming the mental facility they sent me to but they've been known for bad practices however I got sent there for a 3-day mental evaluation for my disability. I got there and settled in about 3:00 a.m. there's a bunch of guys and one room and the guy beside me literally stop breathing I jump up run to the front where a bunch of nurses were sitting around and told him the guy beside me has stopped breathing they told me oh he does that he has sleep apnea! That was my first experience there, well later that day I got to meet the head honcho nurse there and she asked me when was the last time I had alcohol well 6 months before this incident I hadn't had any but two brothers passed away in an accident and as a part of their religious ceremony it was the equivalent of a shot for each brother 6 months had passed since the accident and I hadn't touched a drop and I had informed her this she had the audacity to call me an alcoholic! I looked at her and I said when did the nut take over the nut House! She was an Indian woman not native American from India and she asked me what do I mean I told her the drugs are for the patients not the medical staff! Are you sure you are not a patient pretending to be a staff member? She went the hell off I thought it was hilarious I was only there for 3 days however when I went in there I had just got on my pain medications refilled and all this other stuff I have a neurological disease I was born with it they kept all my pain medication the whole time I was there they gave me Motrin and while it's time for me to leave they kept my pain medication and said it was too addictive my regular doctor was furious needless to say they got another what's the word I'm looking for incident report and investigation slept against them and got find 170,000 because they did not know what happened to my medication it did not get logged and scheduled for destruction

[@LibertyPowell]

I got threatened by my psychiatrist like I'd have to be there for a month. Turns out he could only legally keep me for up to 2 weeks.

[@m00ndrxp]

I was in a mental hospital for a day and there was a 5 yo... Bro lifted stairs...

[@casey00X]

I was in mental hospital for 6 months. While there were a lot of incredibly tragic stories there, my memories are positive in general. It was a safe place to be yourself, and that’s good enough for me.

[@AshAndHarvey]

Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats.

[@RiseLeon_Turtle]

I have a few stories from my time in a mental hospital, but the only one im willing to share is this one When we were all getting ready to go to bed i was eating a snack before i was called to take my meds (i was in the mental hospital for wanting to unalive myself again), so i put my snack down and i tell my roomate (a girl who i will call B cause she was a bitch) B to not touch my snack cause thats one of my triggers (mind you we already knew about our triggers), so i leave and take my meds, and when i come back i see B eating my snack and laughing about it. I just stared at her before yelling about what the fuck she was doing, i stormed out of the room and screamed at the top of my lungs before pacing and punching a padded wall. The staff had to take B out of my room cause i was so furious about it while another staff calmed me down. So B slept in the common room / living room and i slept alone, until next day i got a better roomate. This is just one of the stories of my stay in the mental hospital and the only one im willing to share. Im much better now, but i still cry myself to sleep sometimes when im feeling down.

[@InsanityMeter]

She was so rude to take your snack!! Fr though, hands off the mental hospital snacks because you can’t get really nothing after the meals are done🙏

[@RiseLeon_Turtle]

@InsanityMeter agreed, I was pissed off cause that was my favorite snack, too.

[@InsanityMeter]

@@RiseLeon_Turtle double hit dude, that sucks so bad

[@bunnylacy2097]

Did they at least get you a new snack?:(

[@RiseLeon_Turtle]

@@bunnylacy2097 no they didn't and I was hungry..

[@Zeylo89]

story 4 sounds like schizophrenia, i know alot of ppl with schizophrenia (im schizo myself) and a good amount thinks ppl try to poison them

[@JFKismyhusband_]

The WW2 vet part is devastating I absolutely adore veterans and veterans having to relieve some of the most horrific moments of their life is just devastating poor man

[@carnage0685]

Indeed. May he finally rest in peace now.

[@hisshoota]

Imagine having some grandma tryna rizz you up💀

[@ZoeSFX]

Not a nurse, but a patient a few times as a teen... Craziest rule... face the wall, for the first 4 hours. Copy rule book word for word. If you finish early, sit there quietly until time is up. Craziest behavior... watched a girl, in the blink of an eye, steal something (can't remember what it was) from our cleaning cart (supervised chores were mandated) and chug it like it was water. About 3 gulps. 🤢🤢🤮

[@bunnylacy2097]

Ah oh no! I hope that girl was okay and someone made sure she was taken care of after ingesting that much cleaning solution.

[@ydnasdcdcfsacds]

I’m not a nurse I’m schizophrenic(schizoaffective bipolar technically also autistic) and have been hospitalized multiple times because voices scream at me to do stuff like jump off of bridges because I was either depressed or invincible, crazy stuff(pun intended) however I normally come to my senses in the intake rooms and realize “oh shit it’s the psycward again” the nurses and staff are always wary of me at first, but I’m normally placed in “low security short term”. I will use fake names in this to protect identity’s This last time I had a psychotic break after a really really bad day at a new job which was at Wendy’s still wearing my uniform where they found me after a long stupor with the sucicide hotline, they ended up calling me baconator, when I got to the intake rooms I was quite confused and scared and there was 3 people out in the halls during intake too, the lights were too bright to sleep and I was cold with no blankets so I went to go to talk with the other patients, one was an older lady who when she discovered I was 19 gave me all of her blankets(God bless her heart) and the other one was a guy named Lee who just got done with a bad break up with his gf and the other was a meth addict who I don’t really remember why he was there. Luis and I were sent to the same wing and like always there was a bunch of guys playing cards, since at this point after staying in the ER and going 2 hours away to the psyc hospital I was medicated and calm and not an emotional wreck who was kinda used to this unlike all the first timers there, I made it my mission to help as many people as possible I tried to get as many guys as possible playing cards to take their minds off things, I’m a quite charismatic guy and only wish to use that guy and only wish to use that for the good of others, because I know what being mislead and hurt feels like, I remember there was this one guy named Anthony who would get angry at everything, he wouldn’t attend group therapy and wouldn’t talk to anyone, he too like half the guys in there were in there because they had a bad break up and eventually there was a low function autistic kid who was 18 who got in after him and got out before him, this pissed him off, because you see when your a wreck you don’t think right, I eventually pulled him aside during lunch and started talking eventually he admitted and I’m paraphrasing here “I’m pissed because they are letting this r3***d out before me dude” and I told him “he’s low functioning autistic can’t you tell? They can’t help that and his parents are probably worried sick, quit being angry over things you can’t change, mind your own Business, you gotta focus on yourself right now can’t you see what your letting your emotions make you into?” Then he continued to question why they were not letting him out yet saying how bullshit all the group therapy was and I told him “listen man I know it’s bullshit, but the people here have all gone to college and dedicated their whole lives to helping people like us just to get payed shit salary’s, just because their methods and therapy is bullshit dosent change the fact that they really care, they can’t help you at all, only you can help you, all they are trying to do is force you to help yourself” After that whole talk he started playing cards with us and talking with people and attending group therapy I later heard him making up with his gf over the phone, he was scheduled to go a day out after me and he said the day I left “thank you man, you really helped change my perspective and you really helped” and that warmed my heart in some kind of special way. There’s a lot I can talk about about this stay, about how the (we thought she was lesbian and I’ll be honest she probably was) black women mental health advocate pulled back no stereotypes and decided to tell us alllllll about ourselves even when she was insulted, or about how “expersional therapy” which was really just a bunch of dudes talking and one women who was an absolute boss would tell us what she thought, or how my roommate was literally a local celebrity for his affiliation with the “hobo king”(real thing look it up) and also he had the absolute most snazzy and best top hat with goggles and tattered rags for clothes, but at the end of the day I just want to end the stigma around psycwards, they are not a place for looneys but real people, and it’s not vacation it’s more like being at a boring school with spades and blackjack and the stigma around mentally ill, and maybe look into becoming a peer counselor.

[@christinaprn]

Nurse of 34 years, here. I’ve seen crazier stuff than every single one of these stories.

[@Totally_Not_A_Pigeon]

As a former psych patient I can say watching my friend wheels (he was in a wheelchair so we called him wheels) getting tackled after punching a nurse in the face, during the whole ordeal I was a bit manic and was throwing bowls of cereal I had snuck into my room at the nurses.

[@baddieog420]

I was a patient at 17. My room mate was the youngest in the ward, a 6 year old girl that “POKED” (with a sharp object) her puppy to “expiration” and hid him in her mothers kitchen cabinets.

[@Seven_Red_Suns.]

5:29 There is a species of lizard that shoots blood to fend off predators.

[@snoobnoob9343]

Not a psych ward nurse, but my dad is a retired paramedic (think 30+ years of service). He told me about one guy he saw twice within a few days. First time it was for suicide watch, second time was because somehow, at some point, someone had slipped up somewhere and the guy had gotten a plastic butter knife with his dinner. Like, the kind you get with your food at cheap takeout places, the flimsy white ones that can barely handle toast. He ended up sawing a hole in his stomach, through his intestinal wall, and into his large intestine, using the shitty plastic butter knife.

[@calebelliottguitar]

I am not a nurse, but I work maintenance in a hospital. Our psych patients are generally not malicious or violent, usually they either don’t talk to us at all, or just thank us for unclogging their toilets lol, but we’ve had a few doozies over the time I’ve worked here. Had one get violent, bodied 3 campus officers and absolutely smashed through the windows protecting the HUC. Another ripped off the door handles off several doors. There was the lady who accused us of stealing her blood and offered us to try her poop. Wasn’t too wild, the nurses told us she might say something like that, but having personal friends who have shizo disorders, it really put into perspective what they have to deal with. Props to anyone out there dealing with severe mental diseases on the daily. Respect for yall

[@mrow7598]

I was fixing some networking in the hospital. There was a teen who plug the sink's drain and filled the gap under the door and flooded his room. Maybe 3+ feet of water. And the door swung into the hall so all the water was holding the door shut. He was in there playing in the water like a pool. The poor nurses maybe 100#s soaking wet tried pushing the door open but couldn't due to the water. I had to push the door open for them and when I finally cracked the door open I nearly face planted from the water rushing around my feet.

[@InsanityMeter]

DEAR GOD how tf did it go so long un noticed?? When I was there, one of my patient roommate’s almost completely flooded the bathroom area and it leaked out into room too

[@dankstars5303]

First one: Imagine being in an intense war, imagining this could be your last day suddenly you are teleported to future where you are an old man in a hospital.

[@alexandriarennie5992]

That grandma smooth af

[@thesupertaco1934]

Bro was so cool that a insaine person told Satan to f off

[@theresivy]

to any medical professionals, pls explain to me how that one guy that predicted his own death coded an hour later without any red flags 😰

[@Curlyblonde]

Not unusual, have heard of this happening many times. People can get strong premonitions of impending Doom. They can also not feel like their usual self or suddenly feel unwell, like in the cases of sudden heart failure or early indications of a heart attack. There is often a heaviness in the chest and other symptoms that alert them.

[@m.s.1067]

Was in a psych ward for severe depression. Except for one nurse everyone was great. I ended up relearning how to have fun and trying to fill time with the other patients led to a lot funny moments. From playing chubby bunny, sock throwing fights, playing „there’s a bomb in that backpack“, annoying that one nurse with googly eyes and playing table tennis on roller skates. I sort of forget the difficult moments and mostly remember having a surprising amount of fun. We even managed to make the nurses laugh on occasion. I suppose they didn’t see a lot of people walking in carrying a box of jell-o in swim trunks in the middle of the city with a googly eye stuck to the forehead. But if you’re in the psych ward already you might as well act like it.

[@chlochlo_the_T_BAG]

PRN roughly means, "as the situation demands" for those who dont know. basically just a worker who only comes in when theres understaffing, a need for more staff, etc etc

[@theTwilightSystem]

Haven't been to a psych ward, but was placed on a 24 hour watch because I admitted to a nurse that I had tried to unalive myself...5 years prior. They legit kept me a full day because I had tried to end myself five whole years before that day. I went to the ER because I was in pain and thought I had broken a rib. They held me without pain meds or scans or anything.

[@KittinPyro]

8:46 You gave this man Tylenol?! Why? Tylenol doesn’t treat pain! It treats fevers and fevers only. He may have had a slight temp if it was a tooth abscess but you didn’t bother to check by the sounds of it so why in the world are you giving Tylenol? Ibuprofen or an actual painkiller. That’s what you should’ve done. No wonder he came back and ripped his own tooth out of it hurt that bad, if you deny a mentally Ill person pain relief they’ll do crazy things sometimes to fix the pain. And I realize these guys aren’t doctors, however my sister has worked with mentally handicapped, assisted living and with the elderly both visiting their homes to assist them in their daily lives individually and in a care facility. So because of that I do know that at the very minimum you are required to go through training courses to be certified to do certain things with these people. For example to administer medication, you have to go through a course and receive certification otherwise you can’t give things like insulin, or other medications your patient might need. They may not always be doctors or nurses, but they are sort of a couple tiers below. They get some medical training, and should get enough to know that Tylenol wasn’t the best thing to give here.

[@dragonspirit996]

Just a quick Google search tells you it is a pain reliever though? Yes its other major function is for lowering fevers, and that's also a common use, but I'm just kinda confused why you say it isn't a pain reliever when a quick search and even the packaging of Tylenol says it is? Sorry, I don't mean to be rude, just confused.

[@furioushugger4887]

I take Tylenol, and it is definitely a pain reliever.

[@michaeld8514]

As a case worker for homeless patients at the state psychiatric hospital, I visited a locked ward for the first time in 1991. The night before my visit, a male patient had "emasculated" his male roommate during the night. This man had ripped his roommate's testicles off with his bare hands. Nobody on staff had heard anything unusual during the night, and the incident was not discovered until bed check the next morning.

[@AdamM-zw7fp]

Former Recovery Coach here, I had multiple stories but one that was very interesting was during my NOC shift I was doing my rounds and was told to stay by the nursing station and at first I was confused then I saw a patient who was very aggressive towards people and I stayed thinking everything was normal. Nursing station opens and the patient says "I want to talk to her" one nurse is holding the door halfway open the patient at the speed of light goes right through the nurse (keep in mind she was really skinny) she starts choking the hell out of one nurse and I was able to pull her off, however my thoughts were (I need to find a better job)

[@Sully_bc_yes]

my mom is a nurse in a regular hospital, but most of the people were demented or had hospitals. She once had a patient who ripped out his balloon catheter and didn't feel a thing. When my mom walked in, there was blood everywhere and he casually said "i found a worm:D". When they put it back in they said "remember what happened last time?" and he said "blood bloup bloup bloup?". Earlier this month he was re-admitted and he had to have another catheter. As soon as my mom left the room, he pulled it out and said "i found a snake:D". My mom then asked, "didn't that hurt?" and he responded "yes." while expressionless

[@vissitorsteve]

I worked on psych wards for about a dozen years. One of the most memorable of incidents I saw was when a 24 year old woman, without warning, calmly pulled her out and was reaching for the left eye, I when intervened and stopped her. At no time did she exhibit any pain.

[@misscornbread]

why are all the entries of ask reddit “Not a __, but..” “Im not a __, but i have a friend who is and…” “obligatory not a ___ but…”

[@X2Lazy2WinX]

The worst bit of my psych ward stay wasn't even the psych ward. I got stuck in the ER for over 24 hours. One man came in mid suffering from alcohol poisoning (the noises...the terrible noises) and another personal around my age came in threatening to kill himself and his family while tweaking off ketamine. It was quite the anxiety inducing experience

[@jannisares]

It can safely be said that job would never be boring.

[@Litch016]

My mom works in a psych ward here at the county hospital. She was working at the place part time at the current time, but this was still enough for someone. There was this firefighter there due to some bipolar issues or something like that, and he liked to do art. Not sure if he sometimes showed my mom art, but one day one of the other workers noticed the guy doing art of her being hanged. Terrifying shit.

[@barbaraayarza5352]

When I was 12, I used to volunteer at a hospital my mother worked at. I would help feed severely mentally impaired patients. One day, the young man I was feeding put his finger in the crease of his eyelid... and shoved it in so far... HIS EYEBALL POPPED OUT!!!! it was just dangling by the muscle thingy it's attached to. Then he looked at me with the eye that was still in the socket... and smiled like a Cheshire cat and burst into the most haunting laughter!!!! The eye just dangling... I almost fainted. The staff immediately tended to him... apparently this was not the first time. 😬 I LITERALLY blocked this memory out until just now...

[@chillero3heftig712]

how come so many mentally disabled people are able to not feel pain???

[@theblackcatgirl7013]

I mean- Seems like a question answering itself.

[@chillero3heftig712]

not really, saying because theyre sick neither exposes any detail nor is it more than a theory@@theblackcatgirl7013

[@shadow_shine3578]

You can become divorced from your pain receptors in times of adrenaline rushes. Also if your brain chemistry is really messed up, you might not notice. Or the fear of a hallucination is great then the pain

[@chillero3heftig712]

thank you so much^^@@shadow_shine3578

[@argo8276]

I dont consider myself clinically insane but in my experience its probably because you're irrational and your reality is too distorted to comprehend the severity of your situation. I remember deep-c*tting my wrist in our school while laughing and bragging how i finally know how to unalive myself with no self-inflicted physical injury involved.

[@gailsieglaff8362]

I was a student nurse and we were taking psych patients outside (in an enclosed area) for some fresh air and activities. One guy who had ptsd, climbed the fence, climbed a tree band hung upside down on a limb. Then was escorted back inside. He smiled and said, i just wanted to see if I could do that.

[@susanlanglo-killian7096]

When I was a student nurse, back when they had long term psychiatric hospitals, a group of eight of us started our psych rotation on a locked ward. Each day a different student had a key and had the responsibility of opening the door for the other students to come and go. The patients always watched for who the key person for the day was and would follow us hoping to rush the door. Being naive we were terrified before realizing that there were orderlies on the other side of the door to stop them. The freakiest experience was on the first day when one of the residents walked past us as we huddled near the door and said “Richard Speck is my hero” since we were all from the Chicago and this infamous killer of student nurses was a very well known. Not a good experience for a bunch of student nurses on their first day of psych clinicals.

[@seraphinapalmer979]

I don't work at a psych hospital but I've been in one,(I have Schizoaffective disorder and wasn't taking my meds and I was in a depressive episode) So one of the days that i was there, there was this girl who had behavioral problems and what not she called the police and tried ordering pizza for some stupid reason, since i was on the phone with someone at the same time as she called she blamed me for the whole thing, The thing is the phones have numbers on them and what time the phone number has been called, so i couldn't have called the police if i wanted to, and me being completely bias right now, I'm not stupid enough to call the police for no reason. Anyway, this asshole proceeds to blame me and says that she over heard me calling them, then no less than 20 minuets later she was talking to 3 other patients and bragged about blaming it on me, I over heard this and started to argue with her till we all had to go to our rooms.

[@DN-fs2kb]

There was a girl who i was a patient with at the psych ward and she smashed a plastic bowl and i saw her keep the shards in her pocket and walk back to her room. Later, we heard screaming and had to go to our rooms, through the shadow under the door we saw her being carried away by two nurses screaming for an hour. She ended up kicking a hole in the wall too. Hope she’s alright

[@ClaireSamuelsVA]

You know you love your job when you get off from your shift in the psych ward and watch a video about stories from the psych ward

[@simonederobert1612]

I worked a series of psych wards in my job at a state psychiatric hospital. There was one male patient on one of the wards that every month at the time of the full moon tried to kill me. Durng that time he apparently thought I was someone who, in his pre-psych life, he hated and had done him harm in some way. I found out that he had been an alcoholic prior to his admission and had drunk wood alcohol that had basically fried his brain. Once the full moon had passed, he once again, became the man just wandering the halls, harming no one.

[@TheRandom_Commenter]

That dude that wanted ice was unironically chill as hell… he was self aware on wanting and needing help and could actually snap out of his tantrums if something triggers a voluntary mental response.

[@Amber417]

1:01 that reminds me of my great grandma. She fit the sweet little old lady stereotype to a T, but she also had such a dirty sense of humor 😂

[@elizabethgant8291]

Ice chips, like frozen water, is incredibly useful in a psych hospital.

[@InnocentChild0_0]

Why?

[@cweidmann312]

Just wanna say good call on not doing the voices for this one.

[@CranberryCake]

I've almost had to go to a psych ward a few times after my home burned down and I barely escaped. Listening to these, I'm glad I never had to go there

[@markwilkinson6519]

we had a young girl on the unit, she mixed bleach toilet cleaner and whatever else she found together and injected it into her arm. shes missed the vein and over the next few weeks her arm started breaking down. they took her into hospital and operated on her,,cleaned out the wound and skin grafted it together again, she came back to the unit got a scalpel and cut everything they did away..was awful, she lost her arm in the end. then moved away got married settled down, and died in her mid 30s of a heart attack..

[@ljones3007]

I had a pt from the institute for criminally insane temporarily in the 6th floor lock down psyche unit in Montreal years ago. This pt was in four point restraints and had a police officer at his room 24/7 but when he ate or needed hygiene care or bathroom visits he was escorted by officer and a nurse (we do not have orderlies in psyche, we have nurses, a charge nurse and code white team). This pt was absolutely terrifying as he would stare from his bed and we coukd do our best to ignore his verbal assaults, threats and intimidation tactics but one night as he was supervised to sit up to eat with officer, I went in to give hom hid medication and the officer and myself had casual conversation and somehow this pt/inmate lit his bed on fire...yes, I know sounds impossible and nobody to thus day can figure out how he did it and if you tell me it sounds impossible I would have thought the same myself until it happened...he was a criminal and criminally insane and it's what criminals do. I swear I'd believe it if you told me he started it with his him, he was possessed...one look into his eyes would make your blood run cold. Anyone who would go into his room would swear it had a creepy heaviness to it.

[@ljones3007]

*started it with his mind*..... I also had a pt who thought I was che Guevara's wife and he was hysterical thinking I was going to be assassinated every single evening.

[@illyGalSloth]

Man, videos like this make me rethink my dream of working in a psychiatric hospital. I'm not sure if I can mentally handle the worst cases. To be clear, I have had two placements in psych wards (one was 6 weeks and the other 8 weeks long, spent most of my time in the more "stable" wards) and they were quite pleasant, actually. I really enjoyed it! But, that was only because I was given the easier cases. When I actually qualify, that won't be the case and, over the years, I will definitely encounter patients like the ones in this video. I'm not sure if my sanity can handle it, lol. If anyone reading this has worked for 2+ years in a psych hospital, do you think I should go ahead with this dream? For context, I'm an undergrad OT student who is set to graduate this year. I'm really, _really_ interested in anything to do with mental health (or illness, should I say), and it's something I'm passionate about :)

[@clumpofdirt1193]

im a high school student currently, but ive also been looking into working in the paych field. most of these seem to come from hospital psych wards, which are typically a bit more intense situations. there are behavioural health hospitals that specialize in all sorts of psychiatric cases. also, usually working with adolescents tends to be less intense. im personally planning on working in an adolescent eating disorder residential program. but if you think you wont be able to handle working in a hospital setting, then you probably shouldnt. you know yourself best, so if you think that would be too much, then it might be. i commend you for looking into this and reevaluating

[@illyGalSloth]

@@clumpofdirt1193 Thank you so much for your reply! Now that you mention it, the adolescent cases I encountered _were_ less intense than the older patients. Plus, it would also help me feel a bit more confident about handling an agitated patient (angry older people are more frightening to me, lol). Not sure if I want to choose a specialized area because I quite like the variety, but maybe it would be easier to start off in a specialized area and then move on to general MH practice when I'm more experienced. Thanks again! :)

[@SeanScheiderer]

Mabye work at a childrens mental hospital?

[@bunnylacy2097]

It’s always worth trying and perhaps you could find a job that’ll allow you chose what ward you work in so maybe you’d have easier cases? Although, im sure that job would be the most wanted one as most people would likely want avoid the more difficult cases. You may surprise yourself thought with what you’re able to handle. Making sure you know a variety of deescalation techniques will likely come in handy and maybe help make those harder cases easier for you to bare. If you’re not able to handle the psych hospital there’s other things you can do that involves helping those who are mentally Ill but not hospitalized. You could work doing an outpatient program for example which will be with people who are better off than most patients in the hospital.

[@bunnylacy2097]

I will say, the person saying that working with children tends to be less intense isn’t always true though. Teens especially go through so many hormone changes, their brain is still developing and learning how to handle and cope with trauma and the mental anguish they’re going through that sometimes those can be the hardest cases. There are many cases where teens become violent… so please don’t assume working on an adolescent ward in psych hospital will be easier. It will have some easier cases but it’ll have hard ones too. So like I said, there’s lots you can do that doesn’t involve working with the most intense inpatient options. Outpatient, lower security wards, being a therapist or psychiatrist… and I’m sure there’s more options that just that. I’m not an expert. Just wanting to support people going after their dreams while also being realistic and open to all options in order to make their dreams work :) It’s worth trying it out and if for whatever reason it doesn’t end up being what makes you happy, that’s okay! There’s so many options out there. You’ll figure it out. It’s so wonderful that you’re wanting to help people. I’m considering going to school for forensic psychology.

[@RedCyanPhotos]

I’m riddled with health problems & I’ve been in hospital many times with cancer and major bone surgeries. Now about the worst I different from a ‘crazy person’ once was one of the times I had cardiothoracic surgery, so you can imagine there’s lots of people who had serious tissue, bone (like myself) & lung cancer surgery & are very delicate. Occasionally the hospital used to force this ward to take A&E patients. It was nowhere near A&E & it really shouldn’t have been done, but it was more than the staff jobs were worth to deny these patients, although they weren’t very happy about it because their specialist was chest surgeries. So anyway I was in HDU after having I believe it was my third of seven major Cardiothoracic surgeries and some patient from the next room came towards me with a sharpened pencil she’d stolen from the nurse’s desk area. Now I’m not one of these that lay there half dead, I get walking all over & I certainly don’t feel sorry for myself. I detach everything because it all runs off battery for so long & go around the hospital chatting to staff, to the shops etc. But I had literally just come back from the surgery (5 hours) so I was wired in, just settling down for a little bit, she came in & tried to stab me multiple times with the pencil- not easy to dodge in bed unable to get up! Now thankfully the staff came in very quick as I managed to press the buzzer. They are very good on that ward & in that hospital overall but it was a frightening experience, especially she didn’t get moved & I had the whole night having to escape the ward while very sick, with my drips, pecas, blood pressure & heart monitors, multiple drains etc and I never sleep in hospital anyway, but I was so just worried that she was going to come back when I was absolutely exhausted & not feeling very well so needed to rest after so many hours. The excuse was she had Alzheimer’s & I know working in a care home, having a gran with Alzheimer’s as well as a grandmother In Law that people can be violent with it, but I’m sorry I don’t believe it for a minute. I think she was off ‘mental health’ medication, perhaps there was a touch of dementia/Alzheimer’s as well & actually I think she was drunk. It wouldn’t be the first time we’ve had drunks having sex in the toilets & fighting on that Ward as it is- all from A&E because genuine patients certainly wouldn’t have the strength to do anything like that! Just makes me wonder why they actually house drunk patients overnight, because there’s nothing wrong with them except for them being drunk & if they’re able to move around well it isn’t exactly like they are there for their stomachs pumping & usually they do that in A&E & kick them straight out anyway, so it’s all beyond me!

[@HappyCrackers]

“I didn’t join her but her charisma was on point.” Wild.

[@MN-bg9ud]

Having been on psych wards myself, some of these sound more propaganda than truth. Unless these were at absolutely horrible hospitals this wouldn’t happen. Not that they can’t be true, I would just take these with a grain of salt. Most hospital patients are not violent or aggressive, I have seen a few that were, but more often than not they know something is wrong with them at the moment and desperately just want to get themselves back to normal. As normal at least as they can be.

[@Keith-ux9ku]

Two patients went AWOL and then called the local crisis hotline reporting they were in crisis.

[@LilNaeNaetheBear]

2 stories since I just got out of a ward: One night I was woken up out of my sleep at 1 am to screaming and banging as they had one new patient in a confined room for acting out. I came out to get water and to see what happened and the staff tried to offer me meds to put me to sleep. Like no sir I dont need the night night shot, that lady is just loud. Another day a new patient came in and she just kept pacing back and forth pants around her ankles with everything out in the open. I wanted to help but i wasnt taking the risk and besides the staff could see her so yeah. They finally helped her after a good 15 minutes. She comes into the group room with the rest of us patients while we were talking and the first words we ever hear her utter is "are you okay with him touching you like that? " directed towards me because my friend was rubbing my upper back since he could tell i was getting stressed and i responded " yes im okay but only if its him and no one else, if it makes you uncomfortable we can stop" silence followed by " thats inappropriate" and proceeds to walk away as if it wasn't inappropriate to have her pants keep falling off and we all see everything 😅

[@CreativeDrone]

in a ward I was in, even if hugging someone was consensual, you had .2 seconds before they would call a code. real story. one kid also threw a paper cup(he was not in crisis btw) and was instantly restrained. crazy stuff and it sucked to spend an entire summer as a 12 year old without a hug 😩