When I was first diagnosis with paranoia schizophrenia I was in a mental hospital. I wouldn't eat for the first week. I would only drink chocolate milk and coffee. I would walk the hallways all the time talking to myself and could never sit still. I wanted clean washcloths and towels and waited 45 minutes at the front desk for them. I then ****ed at the girl who was always talking on the phone and got strapped down and had my first Haldol injection. I was doing stretching exercises in the morning for a back injury I got in a car accident and one of the girls seen me and I got put in the lock down ward for that. You see a psychiatrist for a minute a day in those places. You get no real testing or evaluation. They wanted me to feel out state aid papers and I told them the county put me here by court order the county could eat the cost. I was no better off when I went in then when I came out. Those places are mean and abusive.
That sounds like a horrible experience, Jane. I know people who say they had better treatment but still that no consolation for the cold shabby treatment you got. It seems some hospital are better than others, its not your fault. I would do everything I could to avoid a place like that or move to somewhere where the services are better. Someone or place taking control of me is the worst nightmare I could imagine.
First Diagnosis
Posted - 02/07/2008 : 16:22:21
