It made me cry when I read your post and the responses. I guess I'm not alone but I wish to hell I was, because I know what it does to a person.

One night a week after my father's death I had a flashback and my family panicked and called the police. My therapist was called, but he had been sexually harassing me for months. Anyways my therapist left that night and filled out a form involuntarily admitting me to the hospital.

Police came the next morning and placed me in hand cuff (triggers) and drove me to the hospital (fear) and placed me in a locked room with a guard (triggers). Finally the psychiatrist came and she decided to admit me against my will for observation because she was relying on the therapists word and I was agitated. I was escorted by security (triggers) and placed in a room. I wake up from a sleep and completely freak out. I start looking for away out and someone starts following me(triggers). When they are almost on my heals I start pulling fire alarms because I am frightened and dissociating. I get tackled from behind by 3 security guards, dragged to an isolation room, injected with major anti psychotics, stripped of my clothes and left in isolation for 7 days with no contact, no food, no water, no bathroom. After I was released from isolation, they released me from the hospital 3 days later. I finally got to explain that all I had was a flashback which started off the whole event.

I was already diagnosed with PTSD before this. But now it's has gone extreme. Not one doctor in my city knows of another case as extreme. This hospital trauma only re-enforced the trauma of when I was taken hostage, raped and murder attempt.

It's a year later and I barely leave my house. For 9 months I cried for about 6 hours a day. I slept for 12 - 18 hours a day. I was also suicidal for 6 months and I have never been suicidal in my life . I'm lucky I didn't die in the hospital and didn't take my life because of what happened in the hospital.

I don't think that I will ever feel the same way again. It's like I'm still stuck in the isolation room or that I died in there.