how to survive a hospital stay

The thing about people getting raped at these hospitals? How common is that? Does it happen at the trauma specialty hospitals too? Is that just in England or America too? I'm supposed to go to treatment for trauma disorder as well as eating disorder and after reading this I am seriously thinking that it could make things worse.
How do you go to sleep with both eyes closed and under so much drugs if you have to worry about bullies and rapists? I've not been in one of these places but my aunt was in the state hospital and told me horror stories.

Cinderella wrote:The thing about people getting raped at these hospitals? How common is that? Does it happen at the trauma specialty hospitals too? Is that just in England or America too? I'm supposed to go to treatment for trauma disorder as well as eating disorder and after reading this I am seriously thinking that it could make things worse.
How do you go to sleep with both eyes closed and under so much drugs if you have to worry about bullies and rapists? I've not been in one of these places but my aunt was in the state hospital and told me horror stories.

////////////////////Its very rare, an this was a one off case in my hospital. But it shouldnt happen at all , go an have a look round the hospital , you can do that in england . Its the luck of the draw you will get sleepers at night for sleep. the bullying is not massive , its things like if you smoked you may get pressure to hand your cigs out ,that type of thing.If you make friends with people so you will be ok , dont hide away or be a loner.There are guard, s an a nurse on duty at night.

The only thing I can say in all my experiences of hospital stays, whether being actually admitted or seeking health care hospital day care services for what ever the health ailment. The worst experiences have always been in the Emergency Trauma Acute, Non-Acute, Out Patient areas of my English city hospital. I haven't been in a psyche-ward in seven years and the following the six months after my original major nervous break down. How many doctors and nurses in an Emerg Trauma area of a hospital ever hear, ("much less would believe in a heterosexual man") who tells them he was gang-raped, sodomized, tortured, beaten at Gunpoint by two men and one woman twenty-three years in the past (1979) and then speaking of it on the day of my major nervous breakdown January 3rd, 2003.

Doctors and Nurses in an emergency Trauma Acute Center get Mental Health Patients every damned fragrant day after day.
What's with another belly-aching person feeling downcast with no heart or soul saying that he was gang-raped in the past and speaking about it in the present?

The absolute worse thing any patient suffering from any affliction physical, mental or otherwise; is to experience ("Indifference") from a medical professional, when compared to all the people in this world. I strongly believe ("Indifference") happens to be on the top three worst behaviors adopted by in society. I was born fully bilingual speaking and writing fluently in French and English.
Lately; I've been going to the French hospital in my city. Honestly; I don't know for the life of me why I never thought of this before.

It has nothing to do with being partial or entertaining ridiculous bigotry to favor the French verses the English or vice-versa.
But for now in my French hospital I'm treated and listened to far better as a human being in a Out-Patient Hospital. I just don't know what gets into the minds of ignorant people today who judge people rudely.

And as some in this thread have already mentioned in a manner of speaking...who wants to visit a hospital in the first place.

Personally; I would feel far more at peace with myself walking into a forest to die in my last days than sit in a bloody hospital bed to croak and give up my last breath, but that's just me.

As i say , i have to go for my 6 month check up at the hospital today, I dont want to go but if i didnt ,its a bad mark on your file an you dont want any sort of bother, . Say they look back an say, you didnt come for your check so you must be ok , not that you were ill . Its the only life line you have so you certianly dont want to cut it. i am booked in to see a doctor i know , but i dont hold my breath on seeing him, in a busy NHS mental unit you see who they tell you its that or nothing. Now the doc has just picked up you file for the first time an you have 20 minutes to go over your life. Now my meds are not working to the way i want ,but they work as much as there going to. .An the choise is generic drugs anyway, with the exception of cymbalta an that is not a powerful med.So if he ask,s me do you want another med, i will say no, there is no point. You only get one main med in england , no fancy combo,s mabye a benzo at the start of your med. Or as in my case all the time as the hospital got me addicted 20 years ago. The main meds are ssris or snris , Iiprefer the ssris not so harsh to detox . Sertraline is the best for me , used to be prozac till it went generic an i crashed on that. NO me is going to cure you ,the best you can hope for is %70 if you hit that dont change your med

WTF are you talking about.

I got offered what ever meds I wanted and not generic - not that I wanted any, but I had no choice.

MCR_ROCKS, Your comment of " WTF" is not appropriate. We do not reply with confrontation here. If your experience was different you are welcome to share it in your own thread. But this is a support forum. Please do not be insulting.

Manic, I warned you that this thread could prove triggering for others. This is a support forum. This thread is not useful if the sole purpose is to share horror stories. I know you meant well, but it seems that this thread is upsetting people more than helping them.
I am locking it for now.
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