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Jun 17, 2013, 07:16 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2013
Location: USA
Posts: 1,486
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Originally Posted by Nessa213
I've never been in the hospital, but the thought of going kind of gives me a panic attack. Why someone would fake it JUST to go to the hospital is baffling.
Like those people that fake being suicidal just to get some kind of sick attention. Makes my stomach churn. Literally.
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It sickens me as well, though largely because I work in healthcare (I'm a certified Spanish Medical Interpreter -interpret for Spanish-speaking patients all over the hospital, inpatient, outpatient, ED, procedures, etc.) and I see how people sometimes have to wait in the Acute Psychiatric Service in the ED for available beds -they can be hard to come by. I also see people get discharged rather quickly when the inpatient unit is full. So for someone to take up a bed when they're just there for attention or similar reasons makes me really mad sometimes.
I've read on different forums people saying they miss being in the hospital after discharge. (For some people) at the end of the day, it's a place where you have no daily life responsibilities (you're fed, you're fully taken care of 24/7, you have group, individual, talking with the nurses, etc.).
Although I can't know why this person was there and what she had been through, I remember a few months ago in the inpt unit, waiting for the doctor I was going to interpret for, seeing a young girl (maybe early 20's) in no apparent distress sitting cross-legged on her bed with another young girl, merrily chatting away, and it literally looked like a college dorm roommate chat. Again, I can't know what she was going through, but the picture bothered me. I was going to interpret for someone I had before, who I knew to have come in acutely psychotic, and now was on so much Depakote that she had become incontinent (the really awful kind). And that day she was calmer, but still in very bad shape, quite disoriented, miserable. I sometimes wonder how staff deal with these things, don't know if they get cynical or what. If someone claims to be actively suicidal, they pretty much have to admit them, at least for a couple of days, even if they may not buy it.
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