[Victoria'smom]

I know a lot of us protest hospitalization. Funny stories from others may help us. So anyone with a funny story I think that it'll help us to hear it.

Off the top of my head I can't think of a "funny" moment particularly. I have met some really nice people there though. One of the most healing parts of being there has always been getting to know other patients who just so completely understand what I am going through.

I have also found the staff to be so kind and supportive. I've always used the same hospital, and much of the same staff has been there the whole time -- a testament to the quality of the facility from my viewpoint. They always remember me, always remember my name and even my husband and sons names. I find that pretty amazing when it is sometimes a year or so between admissions.

[~Christina]

First time I went inpatient .. The first meal there was breakfast . I have Fibro really bad and I have made HUGE changes in my diet .. eliminated many foods etc ..

So I arrive and I see nothing that I am able to eat , not a thing ..So I had cranberry juice . Of course the nursing staff monitors your meals . Pdoc hears about my refusal to eat ( day 2 at this point) He insists that there is food there to eat . I refuse each time because literally there is nothing there that hasnt been salted seasoned to death or full of artifical flavor or colors ..

He finally shows up for a meal with a Dieitician with him and I again refuse to eat .. she asked me why I would refuse X foods I explained to her why and she laughed .. looked at him and said " Shes right ! none of this is good for her " .... LOL

He was an asshat and god complex so it made me smile and laugh knowing he wasnt all knowing !!!

Anyway it was funny to me

Well, I spent $15 in quarters on the pepsi machine and one night I tried to play scrabble after taking seroquel, lunesta and klonopin before bed...I couldnt move the tiles correctly and had my fellow patients telling me to go to bed.

[Mental reward]

Hmm.. While waiting for a room I was so delusional and sleep deprived I believed the nurses were members of the bloods and crypts gang and were initiating me. Idk I mean that's kinda funny.

[likewater]

Originally Posted by ~Christina

First time I went inpatient .. The first meal there was breakfast . I have Fibro really bad and I have made HUGE changes in my diet .. eliminated many foods etc ..

So I arrive and I see nothing that I am able to eat , not a thing ..So I had cranberry juice . Of course the nursing staff monitors your meals . Pdoc hears about my refusal to eat ( day 2 at this point) He insists that there is food there to eat . I refuse each time because literally there is nothing there that hasnt been salted seasoned to death or full of artifical flavor or colors ..

He finally shows up for a meal with a Dieitician with him and I again refuse to eat .. she asked me why I would refuse X foods I explained to her why and she laughed .. looked at him and said " Shes right ! none of this is good for her " .... LOL

He was an asshat and god complex so it made me smile and laugh knowing he wasnt all knowing !!!

Anyway it was funny to me

Good story. I love that word "asshat"

[likewater]

Originally Posted by Mental reward

Hmm.. While waiting for a room I was so delusional and sleep deprived I believed the nurses were members of the bloods and crypts gang and were initiating me. Idk I mean that's kinda funny.

Yeah, must have been scary for you too. I wonder why you thought both the bloods and the crypts would initiate you? I thought they were rival gangs, but what do I know I live in Colorado. We have the Banditos, but they are scary too.

[BipolarDenial]

Another good one:

When I was psychotic, I thought that the guy I was seeing was trying to kill me so I was afraid to go home.

I walked into a Barnes and Noble and casually sauntered into the Ladies room around closing time. I turned off the light and crouched down behind one of the filthy toilets. When a worker came to close up for the night, he saw that the light was already out and probably assumed another worker had checked the stalls.

I had this urge to go and scarf down a blueberry muffin from the Cafe or make myself a Venti Macchiato, but I was sure they had motion sensors and I would be caught.

Needless to say, I didn't get a good nights sleep. When the cleaning crew came in the next morning around 7am, I just pretended I was a worker using one of the toilets. And damn they sure did clean that Ladies room!! They must have been in there for an hour. And all the while I am supposedly taking a 'dump' for an hour!

When they left, so did I and went on to the next town....

[LiteraryLark]

I've only had one hospitalization, and before I came out of it I thought the whole thing was funny.

When I became manic I thought I was Harry Potter. I thought that my dad was Professor Dumbledore and my mom was Professor McGonnagle and that they were supposed to get married again to become full wizards.

When I was in the hospital, my parents came to visit and I was showing my dad the outside patio. I told him that there was place just like the Order of the Pheonix on the streets below and my dad thought I was still manic, but I showed him that there were really fancy expensive cars tucked away in some shady alley and that it seemed really odd, just like in the Order of the Pheonix.

When I came out of the hospital, I shaved my hair to a pixie cut about the same time that Emma Watson cut her hair to a pixie cut, so my mom told me "I stopped being Hermione when Emma Watson stopped being Hermione"

I have many funny hospital moments, I made some wonderful friends who I still keep in contact with.

I remember being manic and having so much energy that the nurses gave me exercises to do. One would say - run up and down the stairwell 5 times, so I'd go do it, then madly run around looking for another nurse with another idea. I wasnt allowed leave so they'd make me run around the fountain, do sit ups and push ups in my room, jumping jacks when I felt like doing something impulsive, when they ran out of ideas I started cartwheeling up and down the halls.

When I was in locked wards we'd fantasize and plan our escapes, some of them were pretty elaborate and hilarious. Mentally ill people come up with the most outrageous ideas sometimes.

I was in once with a man who has schizophrenia, he thought he was the holy trinity. My very religious grandparents came to visit and I introduced him as my new boyfriend, he then proceeded to tell them about how he was god and they have been mislead their whole lives. The look on their faces was priceless! After we had a great laugh, he was a good fun bloke.

So many more stories. Im so thankful that I have some good memories from those terrible times.

[BlueInanna]

A few years ago when my son was 14 & hospitalized around Halloween, he and some other patients made costumes covering their entire bodies with toilet paper and scared the nurses.

[Mental reward]

When I was waiting for a room in the hospital this time last year, I thought the nurses were initiating me into the bloods and the crypts. By the colors of scrubs they were wearing. Yep. I can't think of anything else that would be not sardonic, cruel, or completely self depricating that would be funny :/.. The toilet paper Halloween story was cute

[gayleggg]

I went into the hospital because I was severly depressed. They messed up on my mood stabilizer and cut it in half, needless to say before they got it fixed, I went manic on them. I threw a fit in one therapy session and had two boyfriends by the time i left and I was married. Not good.

They released me at 6:00 in the evening and my husband wasn't able to come get me untll eleven. They, at least, let me stay on the couch in the common room.

I saw my roommate streak from the shower room to our bedroom. She was notorious for using my stuff so I followed her and sure enough, she was drying off with the blanket from my bed. I told her to keep it and she thought I was the nicest roommate ever.

[Bloem]

A year ago i was admitted on a closed section because i was manic. I had so much energy, the department was too small. I ran laps and was very cheerful. The radio was on i did the volume up and began to dance. After a while other clients danced with me and the staff clapped for us

[RLG2]

My doc wants to put me in the hospital but I have never been. I got him to hold off and promised I would call him. Can anybody tel me what to expect? I have also had a nurse suggest partial inpatient programs and intensive outpatient programs. But doc specifically said inpatient.

I am glad to hear at least there are some funny stories that can come out of it.

Rob

[EternalWinter]

I was only in the mental health ward once in the hospital for eight days. I would always crave cigarettes after 11pm where they no longer let you go out for smokes so I would use extra clothes to seal the bottom of the door and hang things on the inside, do the same to the bathroom door, smoke inside the shower.

I was doing a puzzle at 3 am in the unit. Everyone else was sleeping in their rooms. Most of the lights were off, it was dark, very quit. I was sitting at a table doing the puzzle...

Then I hear a loud bang and its the door flying open with a guy screaming, naked besides a gown that didnt cover very well, with three security guys taking him down "BUT I LOVE HER!!, I LOVE HER!!"

I dont mean to laugh at anybody esles problems, but he was doing pretty good the next day.

Originally Posted by RLG2

My doc wants to put me in the hospital but I have never been. I got him to hold off and promised I would call him. Can anybody tel me what to expect? I have also had a nurse suggest partial inpatient programs and intensive outpatient programs. But doc specifically said inpatient.

I am glad to hear at least there are some funny stories that can come out of it.

Rob

I posted my experience under the quitting antidepressants thread if you want to look, its kind of encouraging I think.

[Ryuguu_Rena]

I can't remember anything particularly funny, but the first time I was hospitalized, there were quite a few colorful and very friendly people there. I was so scared and upset..I didn't want to leave my room. A tech passed by and lead me out to the day-room where there was a group playing cards, and they asked me to join them. It was fun and we talked about a lot of stuff. There was a really loud woman who was playing cards with us who would always get one of the older lady's nerves;;

My second trip to the hospital, I was welcomed at the door by a boisterous man in scrubs who I thought was a nurse until I saw his white snakeskin dressup shoes! He was just a very friendly excited patient!

[bipolarchickk]

Last time I was inpatient there was this lady who kept calling her "lawyer" so he could send her letters to the president and the mayor so they would get her out of the hospital. I couldn't help but laugh. I know I have my problems too so I probably shouldn't say anything...

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[Mental reward]

Originally Posted by likewater

Yeah, must have been scary for you too. I wonder why you thought both the bloods and the crypts would initiate you? I thought they were rival gangs, but what do I know I live in Colorado. We have the Banditos, but they are scary too.

They are , but that's just it it was like watching the nurses talking to each toothed, but I thought they were having like a throw down so to speak. It is so indescribable bit permanently imprinted on my memory. I'm glad. It was one of the most profoundly interesting states of being I've ever had.

[Anneinside]

I was in group therapy on an inpatient ward. Several of us encouraged a woman to get back at her husband who had molested her daughters. The nurses in charged became upset and flustered and sent us all to our rooms. Later we went to the TV room and rebelled by watching all the videos that were marked "Not to be watched without psychiatrist permission".

Another thing happened at the same hospital. Every morning three or four of us would go to the piano and while one woman played the rest of us sang the song from Mash..... if you don't know the name..... it is "Suicide is Painless". One day we went to sing our song and the music was missing.

[manicplanet]

There was a man in the hospital that was teaching me how to speak chinese (both clearly manic) and everytime the nurse would give me my meds I would swear at them in chinese. Him and I would die laughing but they thought I was saying thank you and couldn't figure out what we were laughing about.

Pretty amusing at the time.

[BipolaRNurse]

Thanks for telling all these stories! They make the hospital seem a little less threatening and scary for those of us who haven't (yet) been inpatient. Keep 'em coming, folks.