Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Support Group
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My wife was attacked at work. She is doing a lot better. Me not so much I am still having trouble. I am having troubling sleeping. All I keep seeing is my wife getting attacked. I am afraid if I tell I can open up her wounds again. Still not comfortable with her building, the resident that attacked her has be removed from the building. Their building/staff is not equipped to have mental illness patients with viloent behaviors(bipolar,IED(Intermittent explosive disorder) angry outburst that can't be controlled lasting anywhere from 30 mins to one hour. I hope they don't let any other residents in that is threat to staff or other residents.
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Hey all, i know its been quite awhile since i posted on here. Its been a summer all right. Its been something else........... You know how they say not to open the can of worms? Well a few months ago i decided to find out what my due date would have been for my first baby, the one conceived by r***. My baby would have been due on March 4th of 2006. They would be 20 years old. I was R**** on June...
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Hey All...I hope that you have a lovely, peaceful beginning of your weekI have a bunch of chores that need doing but may put them off til tomorrow and just hang out with my landlord/roomie todayWhat about you?...Anything special going on?Have a great day and take good care of you!!..Xo
What about getting some trauma therapy for yourself??
https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/advocacy/state/workplace-violence2/
Patients that are confused, in pain, on drugs, have ptsd, and a million other reasons, will often strike out thinking that they're protecting themselves. It doesn't help that certain lawmakers and a lot of people think that all nurses do all day is play cards or mess around with unneeded paperwork.
Lo and behold, just after we sent him up to the second floor, the rival gang member who had shot him showed up at our ER door. I was standing in the doorway when he arrived. Wielding his pistol in his right hand, he bowled me over, physically knocking me down to get in through our ER door. Then he plowed his way through our ER staff, got the elevator, and got to the second floor.
Security corralled him on the second floor before he got to his enemy's room to shoot him again and finish him off. I don't know how they prevented a gun fight up there because I wasn't there.
It was just one night of ER work at my Chicago hospital as hospital chaplain. I kept a standing weekly Thursday PTSD therapy appointment during work hours that my boss arranged for me so I could debrief about events like the one I describe here.
With the support of my boss and therapist, we got my hospital to authorize a meeting between myself, hospital counsel, and my boss and gang leaders to address weapons on our property. We agreed to include them in HIPPA law information as next of kin in exchange for an agreement never to allow their members to bring weapons on our hospital campus again. They kept the deal.
I tell this story because while working in an ER in Chicago meant I accepted risks when I signed up, I also found that since there was violence to be expected on the job, I worked for people who wanted to do as much about it as possible. If a balance of the two isn't struck like it was for me in Chicago, then working in such a place is a problem, isn't it?