Horrible Psych Hospital Experience

They lied all over my medical records as well.

Anyone ever get a copy of there medical records and look at the stuff they write ?

I have copies of almost all of my inpatient psychiatric hospitalizations. Personally, I haven't read anything that wasn't true. I know that not all people have experienced things this way though.

When I found myself in the psychiatric system I soon realised that it was far more detrimental to my mental health than it was beneficial. The system's powers to detain and forcibly drug you can lead to the patient experiencing fear and paranoia. In a small secure unit you can find yourself detained with very intimidating people when you yourself might be very vulnerable and insecure. On one occasion I was in a secure unit and I had a violent encounter with another patient. We were both outside the office and he was spitting on the floor. I asked him to stop and we ended up face to face. The next thing I knew he punched me in the face very hard. I punched him back and then the staff intervened. I was lucky that I only sustained a bruise around the eye.

Yeah, I was sent to one against my will for only 5 days. I have not gotten my records but I know from the experience with the ER group that they lied on my records. So, I am eager to see what lies these people told. I can't discuss the lies the ER group told because I am going to try and sue these people and expose them. I am going to do the same to the behavorial center because of some things that happened there.

They are definitely liars and they think once they label you with some mental illness that no-one will believe you so they can do whatever they want to

They gave me rhisperdol which made me semi comatose. I would "argue" (politely) when the staff would talk about me up the hall.

When I was drugged, I couldn't move but I could hear them down the hall. I felt like Terri Shivo. They said, and I remember clearly "Thank God that b**ch shut up." I remember that it felt like jail and that the shower just did a spray. One time, a person stole my clothes and I didn't get them back.

It wasn't as bad as what you all went through, but it was bad.

I went into the hospital two times. The first time, I was pregnant and I was "strip searched" and felt light headed and disassociated. I was about 36 the first time and 40 the second time, both voluntary. With the strip search, the person was polite, but the procedure was very traumatizing. Because I was raped at age 19 and assaulted at 30, I was able to "handle" the situation. The second time, I was escaping someone and I had had an accident. I had ambien. This was the time I was treated more like a criminal.

I hate rhisperdol and will not take it. I cannot walk when I take it. I know two people who take it and they can still walk and talk. I get comatose. The grains of it will make me drunkish and ill.

I now take my mood stabilizer every other day with valerian, melatonin and chammemile tea. I don't know if I will ever be med free, but I know that I hate antipsychotics--be it "AbilFRY" which gets your skin, or Geodon, which affects the blood proteins or rhisperdol, with is powerdered death.

-- Fri Sep 20, 2013 9:38 pm --

Rhisperdol===POWDERED or PILLED. DEATH

One thing I like to suggest to people abused by the mental health system is writing a "ripoff report" http://www.ripoffreport.com , its an online consumer complaint site.

By filing a Ripoff Report it's almost like creating your own web site ..And, it's FREE.

Your Ripoff Report will be seen by other consumers. Search engines will automatically discover most reports, meaning that within just a few days your report will be found on search engines when consumers search, using key words relating to your Ripoff Report. Its almost always first page google search results ! for the offending hospital or doctor. Before the age of the Internet consumers had to contend with sending complaint letters and stuff. But unless the media picked up a complaint, it might usually go unheard about by other consumers. These days however, its different.

Also what happens is other victims start posting there stories exposing what often really goes on behind the locked doors of inpatient psychiatry forcing them to change.

If you want to do this just don't write the report when angry and remember there is no go back and edit button. You can post anonymously with this site.