[raspberrytorte]

So... after my hospital stay in July I decided that hospitals are a lot more fun when you're a raging maniac.

I had a great time swearing and raging at my nurse the first day I was there and ended up getting a shot, the first night there I tried to escape, my heroin withdrawing roommate wanted to try escaping with me the next night and decided a good way for us to escape and go partying in a different city (this really sounded like a lot of fun at the time!) was to go through the ceiling.

Anyway, so she ended up crashing through the ceiling. Thankfully I hadn't gone first or that would have happened to me! She was fine. Broke four bones in her hand though. Then I got blamed for it by a bunch of nurses, which wasn't fair because I had thought it was a bad idea and had wanted to do it my way, so I ended up swearing at nurses again and actually said **** you to one of them.

I almost had an affair with a fellow psychotic patient.

The inpatient doctor thought I would run away, so he had me shackled when I had to go to court. That was actually a good judgement call on his part because I would have run away if I wasn't cuffed at the wrists and the ankles.

Overall, crazy experience.

What was your craziest hospital experience?

[21stCenturySM]

My room mate stole my cigarettes. So I picked him up, hit him, and took them back. He apologized and i saw fear, even though im not very big. He got transferred to the state hospital and I got out a few days later. I saw on the news the day I got out that this same guy escaped from the bus and killed 13 people. Could a been me.

[raspberrytorte]

21st - omg that sounds scary!

[faerie_moon_x]

So my craziest is experience is with the ER. I've never been hospitalized. When I was younger no one cared enogh to take me. Now that im older I can't afford to go.

But last year at the end of August things were bad. I got home from work and flew into a rage. I threw my husband's headset across the room (not at anyone, just tantrum style,) and broke the TV and his headset. So, mother-in-law took me to the ER.

When I was there the social worker or therapist or whatever comes in. I get my meds from my GP because we can't afford a pdoc, but had been off them for a while due to fear of kidney damage.) She tells me they can't admit me for treatment because I don't have a pdoc. She tells me I'm probably not bipolar and only have depression. She also tells me to be careful about breaking things or I'll go to jail. They send me home with paperwork on how to get into the county system.

The next day I take off work. I still feel totally off balance. I call every single place on the list. I don't qualify for county services because I make too much money and I have private insurance. ($8,000 deductible before they pay anything.) I end up talking to a peer counselor on the phone. I make an appointment with my GP who refills my lithium and adds kolonopin.

That's a true story from the US healthcare system right there.

[jacky8807]

When I was manic I had a roommate who liked to be naked and I was forever fighting with her while starting up an affair with a fellow manic patient which continued out of the hospital where the real craziness began (a regrettable story for another time) I broke my phone and trashed the "quiet room"
They were really nice about everything when I think of it.

[jpb4815]

I got off of the ward by using a jedi mind trick on the weak minded person that was leaving. I made her not realize that I a mental patient in a gown, was inches behind her tailgaiting my way out. I still dont know how the nurse who buzzed "us" out did not see me. I was gone for over an hour, I went out front an bummed a smoke, I tried to talk a released ER patient out of her Dilaudid, thank god mom was there to shoo me off. The demons then told me to go to the cafeteria (they had instructed me to do everything else).

Possible trigger:

The demons wanted me to break into the kitchen and find a metal knife, to release me from the hell I was in

I got caught near the hospital cafeteria, put up a fight and it took 3 big guys to get me back to the unit, I weight 155 pounds soaking wet.

That was scary, but not the worst, I have stories of cruelty and abuse from being sent from jail to a mental holding facility. I don't know if I am ready to share that yet.

[gina_re]

Goodness I've never had anything that crazy happen to me. I just don't remember getting there. I vaguely remember the ambulance ride to the hospital. But then I was transported to a private psychiatric hospital. I still have no recollection of how I got there. I woke up and I was in one of those rooms where they have a camera on you. I was apparently on suicide watch because of the OD. I looked a HOT MESS!! When one of the nurses was giving me my meds, she had to look twice at the chart (they take a picture of you when you come in so that the meds are dispensed to the right patient). She was like this does not look like you!!
My roommate had schizophrenia who saw blood dripping from the walls. One day I was getting dressed after taking a shower. Since the doors don't have locks on them, she opened the door to get back into the room. I shut it back because I wasn't dressed yet. She flipped tf out! Then acted like nothing happened 10 minutes later and confused as to what happened.
And the stories I heard in groups...

[MobiusPsyche]

I was in a Catholic hospital and a priest walked in on me while I was in my undergs (getting dressed). Loved the look on his face, as did the rest of the ward and the nurses!

I was manic as hell and started scribbling all over the table and ripping paper up, which bothered another patient there. She screamed at me "How old are you?!" and I screamed "Cosmic masters have no age!" and picked up a chair and piled it on top of another chair and ran out of the room. Then I ran into my room and took the mattress off the bed and ripped up more paper and used toothpaste to stick the paper onto the windows. Later that day I threw my food because I thought the chicken was maggots.

[21stCenturySM]

What I said earlier is scary, but my absolute worst experience was in the state hospital. TRIGGER One of the guards was raping the girl next to me in her room. When he came to my room I decked him (I was 13 So it didn't do much) he hit me with a roll of quarters and knocked out my left lower 12 year molar. /TRIGGER. Ifyou live in Texas, do whatever you can to stay out of terrell state hospital. It is hell. That was almost 19 years ago though.

[HALLIEBETH87]

This happened in February during my first psychosis. I don't remember much about that first week but can't forget this....

It was late at night and I had no roommate becUse I was psychotic. I paced all the time during the psychosis so I was up pacing in my room when a guy across the hall came to his door and tossed a jolly rancher across the floor to me. I was confused but just picked it up and kept pacing. Then he tossed a bag of popcorn he'd hidden from the pantry across the floor to my room. I remember picking it up and kept pacing. THEN I look over in his room as I'm pacing and he's on his bed masterbating while watching me!

I went and told the nurse and a tech took care of it. The next day they moved him to the last room in the hall.

The nurse decided we would have a movie night.

The genius thought it was a good idea to for us watch A Beautiful Mind with Russell Crowe.

Well....all the ETC patients nearly started a riot.

[BipolaRNurse]

When I was IP, a housefly somehow made its way through three locked doors and buzzed us constantly during groups. Drove us nuttier than we already were. One of the patients named it Carl, another drew a picture of it, and I added a poem that could be sung to the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies TV show. We gave these things to our group leader, who was in on the joke. I know...only in a psych unit could a simple housefly be the source of so much amusement.

[MobiusPsyche]

Originally Posted by BipolaRNurse

When I was IP, a housefly somehow made its way through three locked doors and buzzed us constantly during groups. Drove us nuttier than we already were. One of the patients named it Carl, another drew a picture of it, and I added a poem that could be sung to the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies TV show. We gave these things to our group leader, who was in on the joke. I know...only in a psych unit could a simple housefly be the source of so much amusement.

Same for me but it was crickets.

[zijax]

I fell in love and am still dating same guy two years later. A girl started beating up my roommate and I got in a few licks. First time I was ever in a fight.

[wildflowerchild25]

Personally I'm pretty subdued in hospitals. I've never been one to lose control. For the most part.

Once when I was 15 I tried to strangle myself with my shoelace. The nurse saw the marks around my neck and followed me back to my room. I got pissed and refused to leave the room. Two big guys "escorted" me out and put me in the quiet room. I ran around the quiet room screaming until they threatened to shut and lock the door (I'm terribly claustrophobic). Then I just sat in the middle of the quiet room and bit a hole in my wrist, just to prove to them they couldn't keep me safe if I didn't want to be safe. Then I was given Thorazine and passed out. I ended up in a residential group home after that.

The night I got to the group home one of the residents climbed up on the roof of the house and jumped off, then ran away. One time my roommate slept in the closet. Another time a resident left and went to dunkin donuts for a vanilla chai, then tried to steal a staff memeber's purse.

As an adult, I don't remember a lot of most of my stays, but a couple stick out. One time I was woken up around 2am to another patient screaming and cursing at staff because they wouldn't give her breakfast. She thought it was morning and thought they were intentionally denying her.

Another time I was admitted into the ward in the middle of the night, maybe 3 or 4am. My roommate was sleeping but I must have woken her. She started talking quietly. I thought she was talking to me until I realized she wasn't speaking English. I was mixed as hell and wanted to put a pillow over her head to get her to shut up. So I got up and started pacing In the dark next to my bed. Eventually she was practically shouting to herself in another language and I was pacing and trying to tear my hair out. We made quite a pair.

One of the most bizarre things happened the last time I was hospitalized. About six of us were sitting in silence in the day room. Everyone seemed calm. This was the acute care unit so we were all very sick. My husband had died just a week ago so I was practically mute. All of a sudden, this small, quiet, polite girl just gets up and runs full speed at the screen door, punching it with all her might. It was reinforced but her hand started bleeding heavily from the wire lining the glass. She just sat back down as if nothing had happened, and no one batted an eye. I looked around, waiting for someone to say something, but no one did. So I got up and informed the nurse. They took her to bandage up her hand. I'm still amazed that no one even reacted to what happened.

I probably have a lot more but like I said, at this point most of my stays are fuzzy.

[Unrigged64072835]

There was a guy in the ward I was staying in who thought he was Jehovah. He threw Bibles in the toilet, peed all over the bathroom floor, beat up people who he thought were weaker than him. I was moved to another ward after a couple of days. He was still in the old ward when I left.

Well my own behavior was pretty lame but the incident I recall the most was when a developmentally disabled youth picked up a butter knife and held it not in an aggressive manner but a defensive one in response to a group of manic adults teasing him one time too many. Unfortunately the police had to be called.

[mindwrench]

I really shouldn't read threads like this, given my paranoia that every T or medical professional will throw me in a place like that if I say one wrong word. If they ever hint at it, there will be a hole in all the walls to the outside, shaped just like me the way they do it on cartoons, lol. Of coarse I will keep reading the threads, I'm just messed up that way.

Was in a really bad mixed episode. Becoming delusional. Went to this crisis hospital. It was really run down. Most of the nurses there were really mean. Only one pdoc. A whole bunch of stuff happened but one night I couldn't sleep and if I couldn't sleep I was allowed more Seroquel. I was waiting and waiting outside the nurses station. The nurses just ignored me. They didn't even have the door open but I could see them trough the window and they were just talking amongst themselves. I finally out of frustration started banging on the door. They knew I was there. They ignored me. So I banged louder. Finally a nurse opened the door and I had my hand on the top part and she slammed my finger in the door! It hurt really bad. I left that night against their advice. My family completely supported my decision bc so many other things that were really unethical had happened before that. I can't believe they are even allowed to operate.

The next day I had to go to the er bc I had no meds. The pdoc was really understanding tho and put me on a new regime. Anyway that was an awful experience...

[GennyM]

Having an angry ward nurse stick a suppository up my ***** as a form of corporal punishment! She thought I was being too 'uppitity.'

Originally Posted by escapeartist

I was manic as hell and started scribbling all over the table and ripping paper up, which bothered another patient there. She screamed at me "How old are you?!" and I screamed "Cosmic masters have no age!" and picked up a chair and piled it on top of another chair and ran out of the room. Then I ran into my room and took the mattress off the bed and ripped up more paper and used toothpaste to stick the paper onto the windows. Later that day I threw my food because I thought the chicken was maggots.

hehehehe yes, food fights!

a group of us didn't want to eat the fish and chips we were served up (because it tasted absolutely disgusting), so someone said- well let's have a food fight and throw the fish all over the room then the staff can clean it up!

well needless to say we did that (and through the plates, smashing about 20 of them) and we didn't care at all. laughed about it for ages

Possible trigger:

i have also seen someone commit suicide on the ward.

not a crazy eexperience, not even nice to watch, but i saw it

oh 1 time i woke everyone up because i was having a fight with the nurse and wanted her off me.. so she was trying to restrain me in the coridors- and i'm screaming at the top of my voice.. **** off, get the **** off me, leave me the hell alone, if you don't let me go, i'll make you lose your job- i'll call the ****ing police and tell them you tried to kill me (which she didn't, It just came out)

it ended up with me going outside, nnurse still in tact behind me, and a fight on the road between us- got very violent

Remember once we got our phones confused.

it was only when i was leaving it was like oh, i've got this other patient's phone!

they rang me and i answered and they were like.. so, your cat is missing- it's not come back, i know it's not what you want to hear but we'll do all we can

and i'm like.. um, sorry?. this must be the wrong number- i don't own a cat!
it wasn't jjust the wrong number, the wrong phone

Oh, I remember there was this one patient at another hospital that was just plain crazy. She didn't have anything really wrong with her, she just was very disrespectful and liked to break other people's stuff (but didn't dare break her own ****).
So one night I couldn't sleep and I was pacing the halls, and she comes out of her room. I continue pacing ignoring her. She says something like "why are you trying to intimidate me?" I go "I'm not, I'm just walking." And she goes "yes, you're trying to intimidate me with your sliding around." (I was sliding on the linoleum floor). So I respond "I'm just f'n sliding, it's not my problem you're intimidated by it." So she gets this chair and sits in the middle of the hallway and says "come fight me!" I yell back "I'm not going to fight you!" (Now at this time it's 1am and many other patients are yelling at us to go back to sleep). She kept telling me to fight her, so eventually I just screamed and tackled her. The staff didn't even care, they had expressed animosity towards her too. (Yeah, the staff at this hospital were not very professional)

[nativechic]

Don't like remembering hospital experiences but probably the craziest was when I was inpatient from December 2012 and both I and other patient had delusions related to the whole end of world Mayan calendar scenario that had been hyped up.