[thickntired]

I just got out of the psych ward a couple weeks ago. Everyone in my life is all

ok let's roll : D

What's wrong with you? Your Dr said it was no problemo for you to be released.

Why are you carrying on? Why are you avoiding me? I do the best I can you know!! Are you blaming me??

Do you need to go back to the hospital??

Holy crap!!! If a person is in the hospital for a physical ailment who acts this way? I mean it's not like damn skippy you've had a very successful heart bypass so let's go rock climbing.

I swear other people make me want to avoid everything. I feel like a wind up doll in public.

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[smmath]

I'm sorry you are dealing with this. I too got out of the psych ward recently, so I can somewhat relate.

Let me know if you want to talk about it.

[Hellion]

Yeah that can be frusterating.

[trying2survive]

Originally Posted by thickntired

I just got out of the psych ward a couple weeks ago. Everyone in my life is all

ok let's roll : D

What's wrong with you? Your Dr said it was no problemo for you to be released.

Why are you carrying on? Why are you avoiding me? I do the best I can you know!! Are you blaming me??

Do you need to go back to the hospital??

Holy crap!!! If a person is in the hospital for a physical ailment who acts this way? I mean it's not like damn skippy you've had a very successful heart bypass so let's go rock climbing.

I swear other people make me want to avoid everything. I feel like a wind up doll in public.

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it amazes me how stupid people really are these days..it's stupid comments like those that those people said to you that are making me really start to hate people..and they say we are the ones that are messed up

[thickntired]

Originally Posted by smmath

I'm sorry you are dealing with this. I too got out of the psych ward recently, so I can somewhat relate.

Let me know if you want to talk about it.

I hope you're not having the same Problems. Be sure to shut out those kind of people and rest! I've been spending a lot of time just chilling and trying to comprehend the what/why/how of going inpatient. Especially how to avoid future stays, it's not exactly a Hampton Inn like some people believe. It's also scary leaving the hospital. I was just dazed for a week.

Tnt ♥

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[Anouk]

Just because the scars and wounds are invisible to people -- it means that they cant see things so they think they dont exist.

Try to formulate some assertive replies so that you arent caught unawares when this happens.

[thickntired]

Originally Posted by trying2survive

it amazes me how stupid people really are these days..it's stupid comments like those that those people said to you that are making me really start to hate people..and they say we are the ones that are messed up

I know!! What are we living in the bronze period and someone forgot to tell me?? Even a lot of employees in the mental health field are completely ignorant. I believe if you've never dealt with MI first hand it's hard to get but don't those people have to like read books and go to a few classes? It's the blind leading the blind.

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[trying2survive]

Originally Posted by thickntired

I know!! What are we living in the bronze period and someone forgot to tell me?? Even a lot of employees in the mental health field are completely ignorant. I believe if you've never dealt with MI first hand it's hard to get but don't those people have to like read books and go to a few classes? It's the blind leading the blind.

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i don't even know if they pay attention to what they read..then they say we are too difficult????it makes me want to say if you weren't so f*cking stupid i wouldn't be so difficult!! i'm really an easy person to get along with, then you get the morons that first time things get iffy they say stupid things like " do you need your meds upped?" 'are you having an episode?" NO, NOT YET..but if you keep asking stupid questions i'm going to f*cking explode!! THEN you'll see the episode you keep asking about!!

[thickntired]

I was crying on the psych wing and wanted a vystral. The peppy art therapist told me oh I'm sorry the nurses are busy getting night meds ready. Would you like a pencil and piece of paper so you can journal about your feelings. Wtf?! I wanted to get violent up in there after she grinned and spoke to me like I was a 5 yr old. Like you posted, I also consider myself easy going and respect others. And, like you were threatened, they upped my meds. I think mental wards are probably akin to gereatrics. We get jello, pills, and make arts & crafts like we're all functioning on a very low IQ level.

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[Fuzzybear]

I'm sorry they're acting this way towards you, especially since you've just recently came out. They need to relax a little and give you time to breathe; I'm here for you if you need someone to talk too.

[thickntired]

Originally Posted by Fuzzybear

♡♥♡♥♡♥

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[trying2survive]

Originally Posted by thickntired

I was crying on the psych wing and wanted a vystral. The peppy art therapist told me oh I'm sorry the nurses are busy getting night meds ready. Would you like a pencil and piece of paper so you can journal about your feelings. Wtf?! I wanted to get violent up in there after she grinned and spoke to me like I was a 5 yr old. Like you posted, I also consider myself easy going and respect others. And, like you were threatened, they upped my meds. I think mental wards are probably akin to gereatrics. We get jello, pills, and make arts & crafts like we're all functioning on a very low IQ level.

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it is insulting really, it is. today i was having a bad day, i'm ok now.i don't know if i will be ok later on. everybody has bad days, i just have a lot more trouble regulating my emotions than most people, it doesn't mean i'm a mindless moron! these people are really something
in all actuality we are a lot smarter than them, arts and crafts..i love art as much as anyone else but that doesn't mean i want to sit around making things all day!

[thickntired]

Especially when making arts & crafts runs you hundreds of dollars a session.

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Originally Posted by thickntired

I just got out of the psych ward a couple weeks ago. Everyone in my life is all

ok let's roll : D

What's wrong with you? Your Dr said it was no problemo for you to be released.

Why are you carrying on? Why are you avoiding me? I do the best I can you know!! Are you blaming me??

Do you need to go back to the hospital??

Holy crap!!! If a person is in the hospital for a physical ailment who acts this way? I mean it's not like damn skippy you've had a very successful heart bypass so let's go rock climbing.

I swear other people make me want to avoid everything. I feel like a wind up doll in public.

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I've never been but I noticed a huge difference when I was diagnosed a few years ago. Everyone was all o.O on me...it was fu**ing annoying. I mean, where was all that concern before then??? & it's so irritating now because when my mood shifts I get treated the same way. I can't even count how many side comments I wasn't supposed to hear...

[nummy]

I hear ya. Mental breakdowns are like being hit by a truck. Ask them if they got hit by a truck, would they be cured once it got towed away?

[ifst5]

Originally Posted by thickntired

I was crying on the psych wing and wanted a vystral. The peppy art therapist told me oh I'm sorry the nurses are busy getting night meds ready. Would you like a pencil and piece of paper so you can journal about your feelings. Wtf?! I wanted to get violent up in there after she grinned and spoke to me like I was a 5 yr old. Like you posted, I also consider myself easy going and respect others. And, like you were threatened, they upped my meds. I think mental wards are probably akin to gereatrics. We get jello, pills, and make arts & crafts like we're all functioning on a very low IQ level.

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When i get confronted with this usual kind of idiocy from people who apparently 'work' in mental health services, i always smile politely and affirm that 'i'm crazy, not stupid.' Worth it alone for seeing their faces turn white.

I've just come out from only a week long stay at a therapeutic community (a kind of care home for those who yield very little from hospital stays). The staff were borderline abusive and i discovered that some of their better colleagues had left shortly after the last CQC inspection. So i had no way of knowing beforehand how bad things would really be. There was little to no structure, groups were practically non-existent and the residents were among some of the most skilled manipulators i've ever seen. The staff also allowed some poor elderly schizophrenic lady to sit outside my room most of the day and even spy me through my bedroom windows. I feel it was just another exercise in trauma that i could simply have gone without. Due to crappy lower level support back home, it appears as though that hard fought funding will just dissolve into thin air and before i know it, i'm back where i was at 15 years old.

SO, the point i'm trying to make is, other people can be so destructive and i hear what you're saying about them making you feel like it's better to avoid things. In some instances i personally see no other way. I'm sorry for your experiences.

[thickntired]

Originally Posted by ifst5

When i get confronted with this usual kind of idiocy from people who apparently 'work' in mental health services, i always smile politely and affirm that 'i'm crazy, not stupid.' Worth it alone for seeing their faces turn white.

I've just come out from only a week long stay at a therapeutic community (a kind of care home for those who yield very little from hospital stays). The staff were borderline abusive and i discovered that some of their better colleagues had left shortly after the last CQC inspection. So i had no way of knowing beforehand how bad things would really be. There was little to no structure, groups were practically non-existent and the residents were among some of the most skilled manipulators i've ever seen. The staff also allowed some poor elderly schizophrenic lady to sit outside my room most of the day and even spy me through my bedroom windows. I feel it was just another exercise in trauma that i could simply have gone without. Due to crappy lower level support back home, it appears as though that hard fought funding will just dissolve into thin air and before i know it, i'm back where i was at 15 years old.

SO, the point i'm trying to make is, other people can be so destructive and i hear what you're saying about them making you feel like it's better to avoid things. In some instances i personally see no other way. I'm sorry for your experiences.

I'm very sorry you were in what sounds like a worse situation. I was at AA yesterday and a lady picked up her 1 month chip. She had just gotten out of freaking Hazelton in Florida. That's like Betty Ford so I knew she was probably rich. The corporate jobs I had wouldn't cover that swanky of a rehab. It's the same with MI - if you're rich you'll get the best treatment. And people who can't afford the meds/rehab/Dr it's an issue with getting disability. It's a disgrace how many people fall thru the cracks and often become homeless and often on drugs. Medical health should have to meet standards no matter what it costs!! I bet restaurants are more thoroughly held responsible than rehab, retirement homes and psych wards.

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Originally Posted by thickntired

Medical health should have to meet standards no matter what it costs!! I bet restaurants are more thoroughly held responsible than rehab, retirement homes and psych wards.

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All too true

[trying2survive]

Originally Posted by thickntired

Especially when making arts & crafts runs you hundreds of dollars a session.

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absolutely, maybe they should pay for them! hee hee

[tametc]

Originally Posted by ifst5

When i get confronted with this usual kind of idiocy from people who apparently 'work' in mental health services, i always smile politely and affirm that 'i'm crazy, not stupid.' Worth it alone for seeing their faces turn white.

I think sarcasm is underrated as a coping skill. I like this response, because it probably shuts them up, and might cause them to think. I also like to remind them that, "I'm medicated for your protection."

[thickntired]

Hahaha @ I'm medicated for your protection.

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