Comment on Why are mental hospitals run like prisons?

• Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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  • AlissaSameer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I don’t want to hurt anyone else, just myself. I can’t help it at this point so I don’t think mistreating me is going to solve it

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      If you want to hurt yourself, it’s their duty to make it as difficult as possible for you to do a very thorough job of it. Unfortunately, it’s a long line of patients before you, who came up with very creative ways to bring in weapons, that made the staff put you through that humiliating experience. They have seen too many deaths, and suffered injuries themselves.

      And remember, if someone jumps a woman on the street and beats the shit out of her or cuts her open, she hopefully gets some kind of support. But if she’s a nurse on the job, her supervisor will react with “what was your failure that caused this to happen?” They can’t really control what goes on in their patients’ heads, so they control the things they can.

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      • AlissaSameer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I thought I had bodily autonomy? I can get an abortion if I want, not sure why I can’t blow my brains out if I want to under the same principle. Seems a weird reason to incarcerate someone.

        And again, I never hurt anyone there or anywhere, I’m not a violent person. Isn’t that what matters, only if you want to hurt others?

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• FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  It's not just you that they're worried could get stabbed, it could be anyone.

  I took some psych courses in University and one of my profs was full of anecdotes about patients he'd cared for, there were people who were perfectly nice and calm and then in a split second something would go unpredictably wrong and they'd be savagely attacking whoever they could get their hands on.

  And then a moment later they'd be beside themselves with dismay over having "lost it", apologizing sincerely and profusely. He said it was really hard keeping on your toes in there. He permanently lost his hearing in one ear when one of his patients slapped him out of the blue one time, to both of their surprise. If anything remotely like a weapon was easily accessible it could go very badly.

  I'm sorry your experience was unpleasant, and of course I can't remotely speak to it myself - it was your experience, not mine. But it could be that the stuff that was done was for everyone's protection.

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  • AlissaSameer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Thanks but they had no reason to think I’m going to hurt others

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    • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I think you may have missed a significant chunk of what I wrote. The prof told me that they couldn't know who was going to try to hurt others. Often the patients themselves didn't know whether they were going to hurt others.

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      • AlissaSameer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I’m not a nutcase so there’s no threat of that.

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• NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Touché salesman

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