does this consider as PTSD ?

well few years ago i was adminted to a mental hosptial by force. and the one of the nurse there isnt very good. and i remember there was once i and other patients almost started protesting becuase of her.

And a few weeks after i was admited she grab my chocolate and i was angry and i grab it back. she seems very unhappy and move after and i was try to claim myself down thinking i was safe. but she when to call the "crisis team" and take me by surprise when i'm still trying to claim down, i struggle alot trying to get free but i fail and got tied up by the nurse and the cirsis team. and after i was untied i started shivering non-stop and that night i couldnt sleep even i have taken my medicine (inculded sleeping pills) and i was still shivering in fear the next morning. and i told the psychologist about it and they dont even care about it.

and i lose trust on psychologist and the medicine they give since then.

and few months after i was discharge from the hospital. i started to lost sleep and sometime having nightmates on what happned in the hosptial. and i didnt tell the psychologist during out patient treatment, fearing that they would ask me to go back. and few years later it still haunts me sometimes.

What a terriable thing to go through! I don't know why you were in the hospital, but what they did was abuse. So I think you might be suffering from PTSD, do you have a therapist to talk to about this?

Sorry that you had to experience this. It sounds like PTSD but you should really get a diagnosis from a doctor. Here's a link about PTSD from this site that I found helpful:

http://psychcentral.com/resources/Po...umatic_Stress/

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Missi

I am so sorry you went through this. I hope you have some support. gg

i was in for some grief and depression issue.

but i dont have any support from anyone. and i dont think i can go to a doctor or therapist for a diagnosis. since i cannot longer trust them and i think i have some fear in them. afterall what the tell their patients are actually lies. and its hard to point out what they say is real and what is not. and also they never take words from their hospital patients for real, so no matter what you say they never believe in you.

Some health care workers aren't any good, but most are. I encourage you to not let your experiences in the hospital keep you from seeking help. All doctors and therapists are not the same, many tell the truth, many believe us, many are of great aid.

If one therapist does not work for you, you can change to another in most all cases. And you may ultimately find that you have one person for diagnosis and meds, another for talking and other therapy, along with another who works mainly with physical conditions. Plus maybe even a case-manager. In other words, you can build a team of helpful people, each person with their own strengths.

You deserve good help and guidance, we all do, and it is available.

[I just noticed that you are in Singapore, I don't know what the state of mental health care is there, I'm in U.S.A. Hopefully you can indeed find a good team of people to help you, or even one person, someone trained and able to hear you. Good luck.]

well actually my parent ask a team of psychologist, cousellers, and nurse to do a home visit not long ago.

since i and my brother both suffer from mental illness. and when they arrive to my home i dont even dare to look at them. and i started to get Anxious and i barely able to talk to them maybe due i might suffer from selective mutism as well, since i hardly speak to anyone other then those that are very close to me.

and after the leave i started to think about what has happened in the mental hospital again.

Nido,

It sounds like your parents really care about you and your brother to have a team of psychologists, counselors and nurses to do a home visit.

I'm sorry that you became so anxious when they visited. I would think anyone would be nervous in that situation after such a negative experience with the hospital staff.

It will be hard at first but part of getting better will be learning how to remember that not all doctors or nurses or counselors are going to be mean or treat you poorly.

A lot of us have had very negative experiences in hospital settings and are further traumatized from those stays. It can happen.

I wouldn't be typing this right now unless I learned how to trust doctors again after many years of being afraid. It took me a long time and a lot of talking therapy along with medications.....but I have other disorders that require medications too.

Talking is hard but very important to figuring out if your experience did indeed cause a PTSD reaction. The more you are able to talk about it with someone trusted and safe the easier it gets eventually.

I wish peace for you.

I'm sorry you had such a bad experience... but then, that is almost the norm for lock up units... not a nice place to be. Since you were medicated at the time, I would suggest that you allow that you are not remembering it all correctly, and maybe that would let you seek good therapy.