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deleted_user 02/03/2011

Well I went to the local mental helath clinic to try and get some sleeping ablets to help me sleep.

I was there a few hours talking to a a tdoc and a young tdoc. They start suggestion antipsychotics and I was, noi they arent sleeping tablets they ar eantipsychs. So i refused there treatment.

I just said I wanted something to help m esleep. The the next thing you know I go through two more pdocs with paperwork saying they wanted to admitr into hospital on the basis they thpught I wasn't mentally stable. So I got admitted last night against my will. They took my car to their impound and had te ambulance escort me to the ER.

I was detained with a security guard watching me for 4 hourd before the tdoc there came ibn and said she would get me a bed in the hospital.

By 10pm...trhey had admitted into a mental ward. They gave me some sleeping meds (finall) and tried to give me antispychoitics which I refused.

Anyway, I had a meal and got to sleep. The next morning I got to see anther pdoc.

We had about an half hour conversation, and he said that basically he could not contain me and he revoked the detention order.

I got some breakfast an they got me a cab back to the mentl health clinic and got my keys ad drove merrily home.

Great system hey.

deleted_user 02/03/2011

*mentally unstable"

deleted_user 02/03/2011

Sounds like hell. So sorry.

deleted_user 02/03/2011

The thing is if the pdoc that morning deemed me to be mentally unstable I would have been stuck for a min of 2 weeks and been forced treatment against my will. There is no magistrate here to over turn their decision. Pdocs decision is final.

Yeah, no more trips to the mental health system for me.

Fuck em.

acuriousfish 02/03/2011

obviously they were just trying to make some work for themselves - you can't get them from a GP?

deleted_user 02/03/2011

Wanted to know the system in this state.

The poc this morning said next tim ethey will hold m down and inject me.

Corruption.

Its all bullshit. We are all giving ourselves something do and something to talk about.

I have NO friends.

deleted_user 02/03/2011

Not sure where you are from, but in California, if you are picked up for wanting to comit suicide, they can bar you from owning guns for up to 10 years. They took away all my guns so 'You won't be able to kill your self in the future, we are doing this to help protect you from harming yourself." I asked them to take away my knife collection, my rope collection, my pill collection, my stained glass and razor blade collection too, but they said I could keep all those, they just did not want me to harm myself with my guns. This is what the politicion in this Great State feel I can harm myself with is guns, but the other things will not hurt me. So cheer up ervery one, move to California and as long as you do not own a freeking gun, you will never have to worry about commiting sucide because you can only do that if you own a gun in this freekin state.

veryblue 02/03/2011

so sorry you were treated this way, what a way to put you off getting treatment in the first place

they are crazy

deleted_user 02/03/2011

you can get sleep meds over the counter at a pharmacy, sorry this happened to you, can be traumatic.

deleted_user 02/03/2011

perx, I'm really sorry that happened to you. I have a lot of reservations about "so called" doctors. I think many of them have power trips. I wonder if they refused your request for sleeping meds because of street value - I actually have friend whose husband snorts ambien to get high. Despite that though - those of us who truly need them should not be denied. It's shit.

deleted_user 02/03/2011

Wow, I had almost the exact same experience a few days ago. Apparently if they think you are mentally ill then the words "give me my keys back so I can go home bitch" will cause them to make you stay overnight in a hospital and stick syringes in you.

This time when I get my $5000 bill for something I didn't agree to and hurt me; I am going to take a dump in the envelope and mail it back with a return address of "Pablo Picasso..."

I'm Picasso ROFL

deleted_user 02/03/2011

never understood why they use anti psychotics as a sleep aid, I can understand if nothing else worked but come on.....bored bastards.

hugs

heretic 02/03/2011

Good story, I gotta wonder how they made the leap to "mental instability" from a complaint of insomnia. Here they don't hospitalize for mental instability, they won't even hospitalize if you're suicidal - they'll just tell you to take yourself to the ER.
But what most intrigues me about this story is - how did they know which car was yours (I'd have said I got there by bus), how were they able to get your keys from you and why did the cab take you to the mental health clinic instead of the impound lot? Are you saying the clinic had your car towed while keeping the keys to it? Was it far from the clinic to the impound lot? Did you have to take a second cab to actually get back to the car after picking up the keys? Did it cost a lot to get your car out of impound? Strange but interesting story.

heretic 02/03/2011

Oh, I gotta add that in this state the mental health hospitals (just like the regular hospitals) are so overloaded that they do everything they can NOT to admit you. If you go to the ER in crisis the wait is usually 3 days or more - yep sitting in the ER - till a bed can be found for you in a mental hospital. It's nightmarish.They've done new stories on TV about it. Getting yourself into a hospital is almost impossible unless you are wealthy and can afford private care. Maybe I should move to your state where I could get a bed and a meal just because I said I couldn't sleep well!

SunCloudJD 02/03/2011

Anti psychotics do help to give you a really good sleep.. but so sorry to hear what a terrible time you had.. some of these state hospitals sound horrible.. Im glad we dont have them and Im sorry you do...glad to see you are home now.. big hug and a blessing for you..x

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