Hi HelgaDE..

Yes I have some PTSD from being involuntarily hospitalized..primarily dealing with restraints and since one of my primary issues during flashbacks is to either flee, escape, run, I had to be placed in restraints until they subsided. Unfortunately, I was abandoned in a pulic area while in them at a facility I was being transferred to, which has compounded any treatment I currently receive, i.e. as my providers no that I adamantly refuse that intervention (hospitalization) due to this event.

Restraints are now better regulated, I recognize that, but what happened only reinforced the traumatic memories of being restrained, trapped and humilated and now incorporates the hospital enviroment as being apart of the trauma drama which I relive. I am terrified of being a patient in any type of hospitals primarily because of what happened with the use of these restraining devices.

I hope you have a therapist, and continue to work thru these traumatic episode(s).

Evangelista..