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Termyn8or -> Two questions psychiatry related but..... (8/25/2007 6:26:42 AM)
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Of course I am a bondage nut.
I would love to have a Segufix system, or Humane Restraint, but something has occurred to me.
Other than possibly for transport which would be closely watched by an attendent or officers, why do they need to be locking ?
I mean do they leave a patient tied to a bed while the others mill around ? Or are some of the staff too softhearted and would release a patient prematurely ?
I've read a bit and it seems most civilized countries have some pretty strict rules about restraint, especiall on patients, not so much prisoners. Don't you think it a bit unwise to leave someone restrained but not isolated, or only in the room with others who are restrained ? )other than staff)
Now I can understand about transport, especially for the criminally insane or those incarcerated, they could have friends on the outside ready to try and spring them, but in a locked room alone, why ?
Now of course there are the ambulatory restraints, many times the wearer can easily reach the other limbs, so they have to be locking. But if you look at bed restraint systems, there is just about no way one can free themselves. Or are some people such great escape artists ?
Or do they do it for the psychological effect ? As much as some would very much appreciate locking hospital restraints (wink wink), why do they exist, other than as ambulatory restraints ?
The aside is this : I had a few buddies who abused a prescription drug called preludent. Taking the name along with exactly what it was, takes on an ominous light in my mind. The pill was a very powerful amphetamine with a thick coating of a powerful barbiturate. Now these pills were of course stolen, as is any really pure PCP anyone gets their hands on. Actually PCP is a horse tranquilizer, since horses don't sleep in the usual sense, they pretty much have to operate on million dollar race horses standing up sometimes.That drug has such a numbing effect you could cut your own arm off and not even blink. But the preludents were intended for humans.
I believe that preludents existed because mental wards needed to make more money. Give a patient one of these the day before a sanity hearing and the gravy train does not stop. They slept, but now are speeding in the morning.
A long time ago I sometimes abused drugs, not all the time, but occasionally. I don't anymore. But I did do a washed preludent a long time ago. By washed I mean the speed heads would wash the coating off and just take the amphetamine. Some would cook it down and run it, but I never ran anything. The point is, I took I think two washed ones orally and I was up for three days. Literally drank and couldn't get drunk, didn''t need to eat or sleep at all. And let me tell you, I had tried other ampetamines and none of them even worked on me. I could do a bunch of black beauties and go to sleep. Some people are like that, it is not a matter of tolerance, it is a matter of body chemistry or something.
For this small amount to work like that, I can guess what the effect would be of preludents on a person who reacts normally to such drugs. Perhaps, perhaps if I were to be given this treatment, in a mental ward, given this pill, the way I am I might be able to remain coherent on the stand. Over the years many ex-drugabusers have learned how to act straight when the cops are around, or clear their head to handle an emergency. Not the optimum situation, but better than having someone around to rescue you who can't overcome their buzz and figure out what to do.
Is it possible that the things we see in the movies sometimes really happen ? A Woman at the desk of the head of an institution giving him a pile of money saying "And keep him here".Another example is Terminator 2, one of my favorite movies. Sarah Conner was in a mental institution, yet evidence existed that she was not nuts, and telling the truth. But for year she languished in a mental ward while they explored the future technology. She was there because they wanted her silenced, and wanted the technology for themselves.
Now there is alot of stuff in movies that happens very rarely, but how rarely. This is mass media and they are openly saying that this can happen. When the movie is not some whacked out sci-fi, it has every possibility of happening, and it would be a safe assumption that it does, because the same fictional motives and greed involved are extant in real life. (really ?)
So we know it happens, we just don't know how much. Things like this make me start to really wonder just how many innocents are in prison and how many sane people are in mental institutions.
Insurance companies pay big bucks to keep someone in a mental ward, likewise, in this country the federal government imburses money to the states for incarceration, on a per head basis.
Let's put it this way, any of you got big money, invented something or such ? Getting to where millionaires can be called trash ? About to unviel a new product, and got a greedy nasty spouse who is pissed at you ?
Let's say when Bill Gates was younger, getting rich but say 25 years ago. Some people at Apple have some connections. Put something in his drink. Get him in a mental ward. They got plenty of money. IF they would have conspired to get rid of Bill Gates in this way, with no legal culpability, they would probably be alot more prosperous.
T
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