Psych Hospital Abuse Storys

Our stories are scattered all over this forum often because psychiatric hospital Abuse is often just result of one of the topics.

Please post your story here and on any review site for the hospital where this happened and[b] keep a copy for other sites.[/b]

One of my stories, also on all online review sites for this place :

First things first . If a loved one is calling you from this sadistic Hell-Hole saying please get me out of here, do it. This place Is Abusive.

My "Crime" I was in the state of **** and got sick from over drinking vodka and needed detoxification, That is how I became imprisoned at "***** Hospital". My stay started with the door locked behind me, I realized this when I went to go out for a cigarette so I could focus on the intake paperwork... Too Late I was to be another victim of these sick people who run this place. Your intake includes a "BODY CHECK" by this rubber glove pervert who gets off on it. He tells me "SQUAT AND COUGH" I attempt to refuse such disgusting treatment and am told to comply or things "could get rough" so its NAKED and SQUAT AND COUGH.

The next day I am accused of mental illness, coerced medication is part of the program. 800mg seraquel, trileptal (some "mood stablizer" Squat and cough put me in a bad mood) and haldol 20 mg. "Mouth Checks" That's for patients who don't know to or are afraid to refuse toxic amounts of CHEMICAL RESTRAINTS.

I will never forget at dinner when this young woman refused an "order" to sit down and said "No I want a salad, I didn't get a salad" and was forcibly grabbed and removed from the cafeteria . I was shocked . I will never forget her screams of terror as she is dragged to the elevator and then pinned in the back of the elevator forearm across the chest by this sick sadistic control freak. No female actor in any horror movie could replicate a real life terror screams like I heard in real life as this young woman was assaulted.

As for me "refusal to take medication is a symptom of the illness" DSM IV Whats my illness? Intelligence? Compassion for others?
Alcoholism, ya

I was threatened with "injectable form" by the doctor who allowed the staff to do the same and threatened with "state hospital".
I will be filing a lawsuit.

The human rights number on the bottom left 3rd floor patient rights bulletin is covered with a 4X6 inch square paper behind the protective glass.

Do not send your loved one to this place ! My lawyer said to use "***** hospital" for now.

I put this on every review site I could find for this place before being told to wait on that.

[b]Stories Wanted and Needed to stop the abuse ![/b]

My edit button is gone. I forgot to add I am in this forum as a direct result of the human rights hotline number at that abusive hospital being covered up. I found out about all this anti-psych googling "human rights mental heath" after I got home looking for the number.

The subjective experience of being forcibIy injected with psychotropic drugs
and Ieft isoIated has created one of my Iongest-standing recurring nightmares.
There I was, a confused and frightened young person. I feIt at the time that I
needed respite, advice, support and comfort. Instead, the impact of the coerced
psychiatric drug feIt Iike a wrecking baII to the cathedraI of my mind, a mind
which was indeed troubIed, but which I vaIued nonetheIess. WhiIe on coerced
neuroIeptic psychiatric medication, aIso known as antipsychotics, the more I tried
to focus and think, the more difficuIt I found the task. I deveIoped a number of
physicaI side effects to the medications that some might consider triviaI, but that I
found upsetting, such as muscIe contortions in my neck and bIurry vision. AII in
aII, I feIt humiIiated, disrespected and defiant. I certainIy did not feeI a high IeveI
of trust with my mentaI heaIth providers that might have been more conducive to a
therapeutic reIationship.

Read more here: http://www.mindfreedom.org lots of stories.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Imm ... _US&pli=1#



"4. Right to be let alone. In a 1928 Supreme Court decision (Olmstead v. United States), Associate Justice Louis D. Brandeis wrote, "The makers of our Constitution... conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone--the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men." Without having been proved guilty of violating anyone else�s rights, I had been deprived of my freedom and made to undergo corporal punishment disguised as medical treatment. In the truest sense of the term, I was minding my own business, exercising my right to be let alone. As a young man, I thought that in the United States this right was protected; I was wrong. That was 40 years ago, but it�s still happening as literally millions of innocent people every year are being locked up, for short and long periods of time, in psychiatric facilities where their rights are trampled on and they are subjected to psychiatric treatment against their will or without their fully informed consent."
Read the whole thing here :
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Imm ... _US&pli=1#

AkathisiA wrote:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ImmY7nkNpGzNgMCwPJroHBeg3TfiIESwJamVZspKcPA/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1#



"4. Right to be let alone. In a 1928 Supreme Court decision (Olmstead v. United States), Associate Justice Louis D. Brandeis wrote, "The makers of our Constitution... conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone--the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men." Without having been proved guilty of violating anyone else�s rights, I had been deprived of my freedom and made to undergo corporal punishment disguised as medical treatment. In the truest sense of the term, I was minding my own business, exercising my right to be let alone. As a young man, I thought that in the United States this right was protected; I was wrong. That was 40 years ago, but it�s still happening as literally millions of innocent people every year are being locked up, for short and long periods of time, in psychiatric facilities where their rights are trampled on and they are subjected to psychiatric treatment against their will or without their fully informed consent."
Read the whole thing here :
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Imm ... _US&pli=1#

The US is done. People have had no rights here for a long long time. What we have left is scraps of rights that those who have taken over choose to throw us once in a while to keep us quiet.

oh ive had many abuse stories from hospitals period. I was thrown on the bed by a male staff because i wanted to lie on the floor. And when ever i go back to a hospital theyve now decided i need anti psychotic medication and since im a very strong willed and stubborn person they get a court order to have me injected forcibly in fact my first experience with those injections is i had decided to stand on the bathroom counter so they got me off the counter and held me down on the bed and gave me a shot i remember them telling me not to move or that it would hurt more. Like how would you like to be injected in your ass. I was told by a staff member at another hospital (ive been to several) that i was going to get a shot in my ass and she was going to laugh. Of course when i filed a complaint she said she was a christian women and would never say such a thing. At the er for months starting in august ending in october i went to the er several times for overdose or swallowing things to try and kill myself. They put me in restraints and gave me haldol which im not supposed to have cause i have a bad reaction to the stuff. ANyway the nurse said shed come back for me to let me out in awhile. She never came back she clocked off and another nurse came to let me out of restraints cause i told her i was in a lot of pain. My mom knew something was wrong but before she even came to the hospital the security gaurd refused to get the nurse cause he said my pain was due to kicking the door and so they had to give me three different medications cause they waited so long. Another time in the same er i almost peed on myself cause the nurse said i could not get out of bed unless i peed in a cup then when i started fighting them to go to the restroom they held me down injected me and said well the doctor didnt need the urine anyway. There have been times when my father was mad cause they doped me up so heavily that i couldn't function. Ive been handcuffed to a hospital bed to keep me from leaving. Ive had my arm twisted behind my back by police cause i didnt want to get out of the car it hurt a lot. So pretty much abuse by anyone who deals with the mentally ill and most of these things happened when i was a teenager

I was constantly screamed at by nurses, and had my my medical questions screamed at me by weirdos (called nurses). I was administed medication which caused brain damage right away (as soon as I placed it in my mouth I went into a sort of stupor and could not even place food in my mouth). I was given degrading advice when I asked them about physical conditions. I had my conditions shared with secreteries etc. I was not spoken to in english but psych-jibberish! I couldn't understand what on earth they were trying to influence me to do or what they were looking for!

It was pretty nasty.

It happened to me a few years ago. At the the A+E department at the Hospital.I was told that if you are feeling depressed and suicidal you should go to the A+E department(accident and emergency.)

And I foolishly went along. My father had just died and my mother and sister cut me off without contact for no reason, so I was alone. And did not know what to do. I went to the A+E because when I phoned the telephone crisis line,they told me to.

I had previously seen my psychiatrist and social worker as an out patient at the time who were supportive,the previous day. But unfortunenly it was Saturday night and the clinic was closed for the weekend. And I was not felling well, probably due to the shock of my father dying and my family turning their back on me. But when I phoned the crisis line to ask if was normal and that I felt suicidal and could someone come out to me to see if I was all right.they told me no they could not and to go to the A+E at the local hospital.

So I went to the A+E but I was not prepared for the abuse that I got. When a nurse came into the assessment room,I told her that my father had died and my family had cut me off. But when I said I was suicidal she said" It is easy to kill yourself.You can throw yourself under a train or bus,jump of a high building,take insectaside."And then laughed and walked out of the room.

And when the A+E psychiatrist came in and I told her my father had died and that I was suicidal,she said "it's not my fault." And sent me home without showing any concern for me. And when I made a complaint to the hospital,the health trust,the manager who responded to my complaint did not do anything about it. He did not even apologize to me for that nurse and psychiatrist behaviour towards me.

This happened a few years ago I but I still have flashbacks and nightmares about it and I am emotionally scarred by my experienced. And worse,I have talked to lawyers including mental health lawyers.But they would not do anything about it,they did not even listen to my story.

I would like to take legal action against the Health trust for the way I was treated. And the fact that when I made my complain the health trust manager did not do anything. When I looked it up in the medical code of ethics,that nurse has clearly violated the medical code of ethic or guidelines. As if a patient come to any hospital emergency department feeling suicidal,a nurse or doctor is not supposed to tell a patient to "go and throw yourself under a bus", like that nurse did to me.

And what made it worse was that my father had just died and I trusted the A+E staff of that hospital to be sympathetic and treat me with respect. Not be verbally abusive to me.The fact that i had just lost my father and that nurse and A+E psychiatrist showed no regard for this and that I was feeling suicidal.And despite the fact that I told them that I was so upset I had an emergency appointment with my own psychiatrist the previous day, following an emergency home visit from 2 community psychiatric nurses-CPNs for short.When I told them my father has just died and they were very supportive and so was my psychiatrist.

But because it was Saturday and my own psychiatrist and the CPNs were not back until Monday.I phoned the crisis team and they told me to go to the A+E as they did not seem to want to get involved. So I did not know any better and went to the A+E. But i would not have done this if I had known how I would be treated. If I had known how I would have been treated I would have just hung on until Monday,when my own psychiatrist had got back and the clinic was open again.

But it is not the point,as it is not right that hospital staff or NHS staff should use their powers to bully and abuse innocent people.True,I only suffered verbal abuse not physical. But it has had a long lasting effect on me and I am emotionally scarred by my experience. I would like to sue the health trust and see that hospital staff,that nurse in prison for what she did to me. And I am even angrier at the fact that no one I talk to in the will recognise that I have been abused.Not even the lawyers.

Because of all of this I want to move out of the area to get away from that health trust as if I had been living some where else in another area under a different hospital,it would not have happened. And I probably would have got a lot more support in a different A+E. I want to move from the area but I cannot afford it at the moment so I am stuck there.

But I am still suffering now from my experience. But because of this I am afraid to go to the A+E again if I do get into a crisis.In case the hospital does it to me again. Andrea Borman.

Update-

I am still traumatised by my experience in the A+E at the Hospital, despite the fact that it happened several years ago. And this is the first time I have been able to write about it.

I telephoned Mind a mental health charity this afternoon. But when I started to tell them about how I was treated in the A+E,the man on the other end of the phone would not even let me finish my story. He told me that Mind is an information line only. And they don't give advice or emotional support regarding my problems or my treatment in hospital. That is unbelievable.

It seems that every official person I talk to,from the lawyers,to the mental health charities and other official organisations about the way the way I have been treated do not want to know. And not only do they not want to know,they do not even want to listen to me.

And that advisor from Mind that I spoke to on the phone telephone today,would not even listen to my story. I started to tell him about the way I was treated by the health trust he cut me off by saying"sorry I am going to have to stop you there, we don't deal with problems regarding your treatment or give emotional support."

And when he tried to stop me talking I carried on trying to tell him my story and he became more abrupt and again told me we cannot help you. Of course I was very upset and I asked him how he could be like that and I told him it is not right what happened to me. But he clearly did not want to know.

This is the response I get from most of the official people I talk to. I have talked to other organisations as well as Mind.I also talked to ICAS which is an independent advocacy service. They are supposed to help you make a complaint against the health trust if you are unhappy with the way you have been treated or unhappy with the hospital services.

But they did not care at all and said they were too busy to talk to me. In fact I have tried to explain to all of these people, lawyers,Mind,ICAS that the abuse that I suffered is effecting my mental health and has cased me a lot of distress and that it is not right. But it is like talking to a lump of stone. They just could could not care less.

And the fact that they don't care and do not even want to listen to me or help me take legal action against the health trust. That makes them as bad as the health trust who abused me,in my opinion.

I also spoke to my social worker today and I told her that I feel it is important that she,my psychiatrist and the other people who are supposed to be supporting me understand and except the fact that I have been abused. And that it has had a long lasting effect on me still.

But when I told her I would like to talk to my psychiatrist again and that I want her to make another appointment with him. She said I won't be able to see him until 3 months time. Which is not very helpful. BuffyJ.