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RE: How do I find out if there's ever been any complain... - 11/8/2009 4:53:25 AM   
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Status: offline 		Please make corrections where necessary. I want to make sure I understand your situation before commenting further.

OP, you've been having problems with anxiety, anger management, depression, and diet, as well as sleep. You've also have increased stress because of money issues. This all occurred prior to any medical or psychiatric attention.

You met with your physician to discuss the abusive situation you've got going on with your boyfriend, and to get help with some mental health issues that have recently increased. After your appointment with your Dr., you had an intensive at-home therapy session. Was there a state certified counselor/advocate present for this therapy session?

You are upset with your Dr. for reporting your domestic violence situation to the police. The police came to your home to meet with you and your boyfried, but neither of you have actually spoke face to face with the police.

You started having side effects for your prescribed medication. I believe you mentioned Resperdal? These side effects included itching, dizziness, lethargy, and falling.

You went shopping with your boyfriend, and had a minor breakdown over not being able to make an unecessary purchase. However, your mood improved after getting a massage. Your legs were massaged as well, to help with some chronic edema you've been experiencing.

For some reason, a day or two later, you had a panic attack to the degree that you felt the need to self commit to a mental health facility because you did not feel safe in your own home. I believe you mentioned that it was related to a domestic violence type situation with your boyfriend.

While in this facility, you were given medication to help with the anxiety. This medication started to cause more falling, and did not alleviate your anxiety, as you were not permitted some personal items that you brought from home. I believe you mentioned some type of stuffed toys. You are 26, correct?

You feel this facility is substandard because they did not cater to your whims. I have to ask, were you denied access to a bathroom or shower? At any time was your movement restricted by physical restraints? You were permitted to leave when your Dr. determined that you were not dangerous to yourself. But, because the facility staff did not immediately notify you when your parents arrived, and you thought you did not have a ride home, it was necessary for you to call your (abusive) boyfriend at work, so that you could leave the facility immediately. Were you the only patient at the time, or were there other patients that may have had a more urgent need for the staff's attention?

Seriously, if any of the above is mis-stated, please correct as needed.



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RE: How do I find out if there's ever been any complain... - 11/8/2009 6:04:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		Tfb it seems with every post you are coming up with things trying to get someone to be shocked or agree with you regarding this place.  Suddenly there is now a sexual predator?  I am not saying there wasn't but what was that a forgotten issue you have with this place?  IT just seems you are fishing to make some kind of complaint against this place because it wasn't a spa resort nor was it a vacation and a fun place to relax away from home.

If you have a complaint then make a complaint but don't keep trying to come up with things here or in your mind to somehow validate your feelings of having been abused in this facility.  The fact you are now saying this about a sexual predator makes me wonder if you are just trying to find something wrong with this facility.

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RE: How do I find out if there's ever been any complain... - 11/8/2009 7:22:03 AM   
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Topping,

Just because someone is in a clinic it does not make them a 'real crzay', you have your problems (emotional and mental, which would in the eyes of many people make you a real crazy) and those in clinics have their problems, different ones yes, but that does not make them any more 'real crazies' then you. My son is in a day clinic for children and guess what his only problem is ADHS, but I guess because he is in a clinic he is a real crazy.

Your problem is that you never grew up and cannot take responibility for yourself or your actions. I have been following your posts for a while now and you love to be the centre of attention, as soon as you fade from the limelight you start a new series. Try working in one of those clinics for a few months and see what it does to you. The workers in those clinics have a lasting rate (on average) of maybe three to four years before they break down.

You want to be careful how you word things, regardless of if you are drugged up or not. I said what I just said with the aim to make you realise, WORDS CAN HURT. A person is not a 'real crazy' as you put it, just because they are in a clinic. They are people who like you their problems.

I am sorry for the pain what I said might have done. But you need to learn sometime, that life does not accept excuses. It is going to go on with or without you.

You have a problem, you need to decide to make the changes, no the changes are not easy, no they will not happen over night. But using excuses is opting out of making the changes that you have said yourself that you need to make. I hope you sort things out with your partner and with yourself. Good luck.



I wholeheartedly agree with this post.  My son had to go to a facility for a short time when he was in grade school because we, as parents, did not have the knowledge or resources to give him the help he needed at home.  He needed to have the restrictions and care that only trained professionals were able to give.  At a tender age, he was diagnosed with juvenile bipolar disorder which presents itself (most of the time) in the form of wildly altering moods mixed with uncontrollable anger.  It was with the most unbelievable sadness and feelings of failure, that I, as his mother, had to check him in, and leave him in the care of strangers - even though I knew it was the best thing for him.  Knowing that my baby was over an hour's drive away from me and his dad and the rest of his family, was heart-wrenching.  However, it had to be done.  It also made the most profound impact in the course of his getting the proper diagnosis and treatment, which is ongoing to this day.  He only had the one stay, but we have always followed up with the appointments with doctors and counselors, and have made his school aware of the way things manifest themselves if his moods start to unravel.  Most importantly, HE is more aware of his disorder, the triggers, the coping skills he uses to bring himself back to a place of being able to function even when the world doesn't treat him the way he believes it should. 

He is a teenager now, with all the stressors of being a hormonally mixed up mess of being a young man in a grown man's body, and I have seen emotional growth in him over the past 6 years that I never would have thought possible the night I had to kiss my baby son goodbye and walk down that corridor, hearing my precious gift scream, "Mommy, please don't leave me!  I promise I'll be good, please come back, Mommy!  Will I ever see you again?  Mommy, do you still love me?  Please, Mommy, please!!!"  How the fuck I ever made it back home that night, in the pouring rain, crying my heart out, driving in unknown territory, I will never know.  But I can tell you this much, God bless those people who took care of him, even when he thought that they were being "mean" and "awful."  If it weren't for them, I may not have my son in his magnificent state, as I do now.  Hell, I may not have him at all, because he was so impulsive at the time, he may have gotten himself killed.  Treatment is not easy, nor is it fast.  It is a process, a stint at learning the best route for the individual so that he or she can come to live a full and productive life, regardless of what circumstances life throws at them.

Signed,

Red, Proud Mother of a "Real Crazy"

*edited for typo*

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RE: How do I find out if there's ever been any complain... - 11/8/2009 7:42:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		Greetings,

I am extremely proud of the steps forward my son is making, I am glad he is in the clinic and I am thankful for the help of professionals, what I hate is people with attitudes like Topping who make the hard work of the people who help those who cannot help themselves. I looked up the place she complains about and have found almost solidly good reports from past and present patients. Topping gives the impression that she is not able to help herself. Sorry Topping but it is time to grow up and put the shoe on when it fits.
There is no such thing as a 'real crazy'. There is only people with problems who have seen they need help or who have people who care enough to notice they need help and have gotten it in such places. You are an egoistic person who cannot accept that she does not always get her way in life. My children are 3 and 7 and already know that. Sorry, grow up and stop blaming others for your rubbish. And STOP putting others down because you think you are better then them. You need to lose weight, a doctor cannot make you lose it. You have panic attacks, cannot control yourself, suffer ADHS, PTDS among a heap of other things. Stop complaining about these things, get of your backside and get help. I know it is hard, others know it is hard but we did what had to be done, so it is possible.
You can complain all you want, but do not blame others for YOUR life.

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RE: How do I find out if there's ever been any complain... - 11/8/2009 7:48:24 AM   
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Status: offline 		People who scream and yell that the world is ending we're all in danger the bad men are coming you will all die because they're schtizo is not someone I want to be around. People who WILL walk up to you and stare at you and follow you as you walk away all over the building which did happen, are not people I want to be around.

If you're  in a pych word, and are skitzo or believing the aliens are coming or screaming so loudly non stop that staff have to come drag you naked and screaming to the silent room and you are trying to kick down the door and screaming so loudly the entire ward can you hear and they now have to come put you in shackles because you're kicking dwn the door and trying to bash your head into the wall,  with the intention to break your head open and die, THOSE are people I consider crazy and that I don't belong in a ward with.


Your son getting into a day clinic that helps him is wonderful maybe I'd do a day clinic or something but I'd never ever again do a pych patient ward, I do not belong in one of those places, simply because I am adhd and ptsd,
quote:

ORIGINAL: estah

Topping,

Just because someone is in a clinic it does not make them a 'real crzay', you have your problems (emotional and mental, which would in the eyes of many people make you a real crazy) and those in clinics have their problems, different ones yes, but that does not make them any more 'real crazies' then you. My son is in a day clinic for children and guess what his only problem is ADHS, but I guess because he is in a clinic he is a real crazy.

Your problem is that you never grew up and cannot take responibility for yourself or your actions. I have been following your posts for a while now and you love to be the centre of attention, as soon as you fade from the limelight you start a new series. Try working in one of those clinics for a few months and see what it does to you. The workers in those clinics have a lasting rate (on average) of maybe three to four years before they break down.

You want to be careful how you word things, regardless of if you are drugged up or not. I said what I just said with the aim to make you realise, WORDS CAN HURT. A person is not a 'real crazy' as you put it, just because they are in a clinic. They are people who like you their problems.

I am sorry for the pain what I said might have done. But you need to learn sometime, that life does not accept excuses. It is going to go on with or without you.

You have a problem, you need to decide to make the changes, no the changes are not easy, no they will not happen over night. But using excuses is opting out of making the changes that you have said yourself that you need to make. I hope you sort things out with your partner and with yourself. Good luck.


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RE: How do I find out if there's ever been any complain... - 11/8/2009 8:04:13 AM   
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If you're  in a pych word, and are skitzo or believing the aliens are coming or screaming so loudly non stop that staff have to come drag you naked and screaming to the silent room and you are trying to kick down the door and screaming so loudly the entire ward can you hear and they now have to come put you in shackles because you're kicking dwn the door and trying to bash your head into the wall,  with the intention to break your head open and die, THOSE are people I consider crazy and that I don't belong in a ward with.


Tfb, what i am about to say may sound VERY mean and very wrong to some but i want you to actually read what you have written here and then go back to every single post you have made about your reactions to your boyfriend when he triggers you.  You may not be abusing or attacking walls and doors, but you do violently by your own words react against a human being and attack him violently and uncontrolably.  You maybe did not do it there, but you do do it against him many times you have said. 

You call those people crazy --- which i disagree, as hell everyone in the world is somewhat a concept of crazy.  They are people with issues - issues that i am sure all have triggers.   It may be a different environment wherein you are seeing people reacting violently and irrationally to triggers  but that's just geography.

angel

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RE: How do I find out if there's ever been any complain... - 11/8/2009 8:18:24 AM   
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Status: offline 		Schizophrenics are people too. I'm sure full-blown psychosis could be scary to someone who's not used to it but what you have to realise is that underneath that is a real person with real feelings just as much as you are, underneath the panic attacks and hypomania and whatever else. And to be honest I've seen plenty of people with medicated and controlled schizophrenia who are a lot more rational about the world and their own behaviour than you are.

I don't think you're as different from the "real crazy" as you think you are.

There is certainly plenty of evidence of delusional thoughts and ideas in your posts, you've admitted it yourself. Maybe you aren't hallucinating but you're certainly acting in an irrational and violent way. Most schizophrenics, by the way, are not and never will be violent.

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RE: How do I find out if there's ever been any complain... - 11/8/2009 8:28:05 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Toppingfrmbottom

People who scream and yell that the world is ending we're all in danger the bad men are coming you will all die because they're schtizo is not someone I want to be around. People who WILL walk up to you and stare at you and follow you as you walk away all over the building which did happen, are not people I want to be around.

If you're  in a pych word, and are skitzo or believing the aliens are coming or screaming so loudly non stop that staff have to come drag you naked and screaming to the silent room and you are trying to kick down the door and screaming so loudly the entire ward can you hear and they now have to come put you in shackles because you're kicking dwn the door and trying to bash your head into the wall,  with the intention to break your head open and die, THOSE are people I consider crazy and that I don't belong in a ward with.


Your son getting into a day clinic that helps him is wonderful maybe I'd do a day clinic or something but I'd never ever again do a pych patient ward, I do not belong in one of those places, simply because I am adhd and ptsd,
quote:

ORIGINAL: estah

Topping,

Just because someone is in a clinic it does not make them a 'real crzay', you have your problems (emotional and mental, which would in the eyes of many people make you a real crazy) and those in clinics have their problems, different ones yes, but that does not make them any more 'real crazies' then you. My son is in a day clinic for children and guess what his only problem is ADHS, but I guess because he is in a clinic he is a real crazy.

Your problem is that you never grew up and cannot take responibility for yourself or your actions. I have been following your posts for a while now and you love to be the centre of attention, as soon as you fade from the limelight you start a new series. Try working in one of those clinics for a few months and see what it does to you. The workers in those clinics have a lasting rate (on average) of maybe three to four years before they break down.

You want to be careful how you word things, regardless of if you are drugged up or not. I said what I just said with the aim to make you realise, WORDS CAN HURT. A person is not a 'real crazy' as you put it, just because they are in a clinic. They are people who like you their problems.

I am sorry for the pain what I said might have done. But you need to learn sometime, that life does not accept excuses. It is going to go on with or without you.

You have a problem, you need to decide to make the changes, no the changes are not easy, no they will not happen over night. But using excuses is opting out of making the changes that you have said yourself that you need to make. I hope you sort things out with your partner and with yourself. Good luck.





WOW just wow!


Have you ever thought that someone with maniac behavior to those with schizophrenia are "real" crazy and they may not want to be around you?


How incredibly........... Nevermind.

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RE: How do I find out if there's ever been any complain... - 11/8/2009 8:29:05 AM   
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I had to kiss my baby son goodbye and walk down that corridor, hearing my precious gift scream, "Mommy, please don't leave me! I promise I'll be good, please come back, Mommy! Will I ever see you again? Mommy, do you still love me? Please, Mommy, please!!!" How the fuck I ever made it back home that night, in the pouring rain, crying my heart out, driving in unknown territory, I will never know. But I can tell you this much, God bless those people who took care of him
Red...i have the biggest lump in my throat from reading this...and an even bigger level of admiration for you as a mom. The strength it took for you to do that is simply amazing.

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RE: How do I find out if there's ever been any complain... - 11/8/2009 12:16:35 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: sirsholly

quote:

I had to kiss my baby son goodbye and walk down that corridor, hearing my precious gift scream, "Mommy, please don't leave me! I promise I'll be good, please come back, Mommy! Will I ever see you again? Mommy, do you still love me? Please, Mommy, please!!!" How the fuck I ever made it back home that night, in the pouring rain, crying my heart out, driving in unknown territory, I will never know. But I can tell you this much, God bless those people who took care of him
Red...i have the biggest lump in my throat from reading this...and an even bigger level of admiration for you as a mom. The strength it took for you to do that is simply amazing.


Agreed. And it's also a bit uplifting to hear about a positive experience, as others I've heard have been less than so.

Glad to hear it worked out for you and your son.

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RE: How do I find out if there's ever been any complain... - 11/8/2009 12:42:04 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: sirsholly

quote:

I had to kiss my baby son goodbye and walk down that corridor, hearing my precious gift scream, "Mommy, please don't leave me! I promise I'll be good, please come back, Mommy! Will I ever see you again? Mommy, do you still love me? Please, Mommy, please!!!" How the fuck I ever made it back home that night, in the pouring rain, crying my heart out, driving in unknown territory, I will never know. But I can tell you this much, God bless those people who took care of him

Red...i have the biggest lump in my throat from reading this...and an even bigger level of admiration for you as a mom. The strength it took for you to do that is simply amazing.


No way to put it better.


TfB, you might be a different band of "crazy" than those people you are putting down, however, considering your host of psychical and physical problems, you are at least as disturbed as them, and a longer stay in a closed facility might just be the help you need.
At least it would help you to distance yourself from a toxic situation, and equally toxic pople at home.




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RE: How do I find out if there's ever been any complain... - 11/8/2009 1:19:24 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Toppingfrmbottom

People who scream and yell that the world is ending we're all in danger the bad men are coming you will all die because they're schtizo is not someone I want to be around. People who WILL walk up to you and stare at you and follow you as you walk away all over the building which did happen, are not people I want to be around.

If you're  in a pych word, and are skitzo or believing the aliens are coming or screaming so loudly non stop that staff have to come drag you naked and screaming to the silent room and you are trying to kick down the door and screaming so loudly the entire ward can you hear and they now have to come put you in shackles because you're kicking dwn the door and trying to bash your head into the wall,  with the intention to break your head open and die, THOSE are people I consider crazy and that I don't belong in a ward with.


Your son getting into a day clinic that helps him is wonderful maybe I'd do a day clinic or something but I'd never ever again do a pych patient ward, I do not belong in one of those places, simply because I am adhd and ptsd,
quote:

ORIGINAL: estah

Topping,

Just because someone is in a clinic it does not make them a 'real crzay', you have your problems (emotional and mental, which would in the eyes of many people make you a real crazy) and those in clinics have their problems, different ones yes, but that does not make them any more 'real crazies' then you. My son is in a day clinic for children and guess what his only problem is ADHS, but I guess because he is in a clinic he is a real crazy.

Your problem is that you never grew up and cannot take responibility for yourself or your actions. I have been following your posts for a while now and you love to be the centre of attention, as soon as you fade from the limelight you start a new series. Try working in one of those clinics for a few months and see what it does to you. The workers in those clinics have a lasting rate (on average) of maybe three to four years before they break down.

You want to be careful how you word things, regardless of if you are drugged up or not. I said what I just said with the aim to make you realise, WORDS CAN HURT. A person is not a 'real crazy' as you put it, just because they are in a clinic. They are people who like you their problems.

I am sorry for the pain what I said might have done. But you need to learn sometime, that life does not accept excuses. It is going to go on with or without you.

You have a problem, you need to decide to make the changes, no the changes are not easy, no they will not happen over night. But using excuses is opting out of making the changes that you have said yourself that you need to make. I hope you sort things out with your partner and with yourself. Good luck.





barelyangel
Tfb, what i am about to say may sound VERY mean and very wrong to some but i want you to actually read what you have written here and then go back to every single post you have made about your reactions to your boyfriend when he triggers you.  You may not be abusing or attacking walls and doors, but you do violently by your own words react against a human being and attack him violently and uncontrolably.  You maybe did not do it there, but you do do it against him many times you have said. 

You call those people crazy --- which i disagree, as hell everyone in the world is somewhat a concept of crazy.  They are people with issues - issues that i am sure all have triggers.   It may be a different environment wherein you are seeing people reacting violently and irrationally to triggers  but that's just geography.

angel


Tfb
This is not to pick on you.

You have more issues than just PTSD and ADHD.
You have bi-polar disorder that is not yet controlled by medication.
You have mania and uncontrollable rage/outburts.

Did you know that hallucinations are a fairly common symptom in people who are manic?

Many mental illnesses cause differences in our perceptions.
This is something we have already talked about here:
You misinterpret reality at times.

It greatly saddens me that you see yourself as better than someone else who has a serious mental illness just because their symptoms present themselves in different ways.
Different is not better or worse, it is just different.
It is true that different can be quite scary.

I am guessing that there are times when someone who did not know you could interpret your behavior as scary.
You have talked about both verbal and physical outburts.

I am aware that loud noises frighten you.
They frighten a lot of people.
Likely there are times when your behaviors have frightened people.

However, many of the people you would label as "really crazy" could probably teach you about coping skills once their illness is better controlled with medication that is effective for them.

Again, this isn't to pick on you or de-value your feelings.
I just think that the impressions you carry about 'crazy people' are going to get in the way of your own path to getting better.

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RE: How do I find out if there's ever been any complain... - 11/8/2009 1:29:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		Peaches, I know that the long list of symptoms and.....errrr experiences Topping has had sounds implausible, but it is possible.

Let me tell you about the last week in my life. Started with a cyst on my back deciding to become the mutant cyst from Hell. It got infected which turned to cellulitis - bigtime.  The antibiotic I was given made me really ill and caused abdominal pain so bad I wanted to cry. Finally it all clears up.....and I wake up coughing on Saturday (yesterday) morning. Somehow while coughing I managed to "tweak" a nerve in my neck, which set off spasms which did make me cry. And nooooowwww the cold that has threatened since yesterday has hit full blown this afternoon. I swear I'm not making anything up.

There are times when I want to just stay in bed until I have proof things will be better.


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RE: How do I find out if there's ever been any complain... - 11/8/2009 3:09:52 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: sirsholly

quote:

I had to kiss my baby son goodbye and walk down that corridor, hearing my precious gift scream, "Mommy, please don't leave me! I promise I'll be good, please come back, Mommy! Will I ever see you again? Mommy, do you still love me? Please, Mommy, please!!!" How the fuck I ever made it back home that night, in the pouring rain, crying my heart out, driving in unknown territory, I will never know. But I can tell you this much, God bless those people who took care of him
Red...i have the biggest lump in my throat from reading this...and an even bigger level of admiration for you as a mom. The strength it took for you to do that is simply amazing.


Thank you, Holly.  *hugs*

And thank you, arrogance and sandra.

It was so ridiculously hard to do (though worth it in the end), and while I was typing that post this morning, I had to stop a few times because I was crying all over again.

(runs off to find Thing 1 and give him a hug)

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RE: How do I find out if there's ever been any complain... - 11/8/2009 3:19:16 PM   
GoddessImaginos


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Status: offline 		OMFG {{{*HUGS* Red so much. I have had to turn away with toughlove - under entirely different circumstances - two of My adult children. Eleven years ago, I fell to My knees in the driveway as the state of MA legally kidnapped all three of My children for the crime of our being homeless, no abuse or other supposed neglect whatsoever.*BLESS you*}}}

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RE: How do I find out if there's ever been any complain... - 11/8/2009 3:24:17 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: zephyroftheNorth

Peaches, I know that the long list of symptoms and.....errrr experiences Topping has had sounds implausible, but it is possible.

Let me tell you about the last week in my life. Started with a cyst on my back deciding to become the mutant cyst from Hell. It got infected which turned to cellulitis - bigtime.  The antibiotic I was given made me really ill and caused abdominal pain so bad I wanted to cry. Finally it all clears up.....and I wake up coughing on Saturday (yesterday) morning. Somehow while coughing I managed to "tweak" a nerve in my neck, which set off spasms which did make me cry. And nooooowwww the cold that has threatened since yesterday has hit full blown this afternoon. I swear I'm not making anything up.

There are times when I want to just stay in bed until I have proof things will be better.



Bless your sweet heart, zeph. Please get well and feel better, ok?

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RE: How do I find out if there's ever been any complain... - 11/8/2009 3:45:24 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: GoddessImaginos

OMFG {{{*HUGS* Red so much. I have had to turn away with toughlove - under entirely different circumstances - two of My adult children. Eleven years ago, I fell to My knees in the driveway as the state of MA legally kidnapped all three of My children for the crime of our being homeless, no abuse or other supposed neglect whatsoever.*BLESS you*}}}


*hugs GI*   God bless you all.  I'm so sorry that you had to experience such pain, with each circumstance.  *more hugs*

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RE: How do I find out if there's ever been any complain... - 11/8/2009 3:45:44 PM   
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Ihave watched this thread with some trepidation and apprehension..  However, I've decided to share my experience as a patient. I checked myself in... Every time...I checked myself in... Even the time I attempted suicide I checked myself in... I was never placed on any kind of "hold" or anything else. And to be honest with you...all except the last psych admission I was on the locked unit to protect my privacy due to being a professional... The last one though? The last one was because I had made a serious suicide attempt... I had been in ICU for a week and a half....Then I had been on the physical rehab floor for a week and a half.. Then I was on the psych floor for a week and a half... I will tell God, the free world and anyone else that will listen that this week and a half is most likely what saved my life.... It forced me to do some things!!! It FORCED me to eat!!!! It forced me to be social!! It forced me to interact with people!! It forced me to talk to people!!! Were there people in there that were truly sick? Yep....Were there people in there that were doing shock therapy? yes.... Were there people in there playing games? yes.... Were there people in there who needed to be more heavily monitored? yes... Bottom line? These people cared for people... I watched these people care about people!! I watched them care about me!!! I watched them come to my room and tell me every morning that I needed to be in group despite the fact that I did not want to be awake... I watched them come to my group in the evening and ask me if I was okay because they knew my parents had just left and they knew in the past that had not been a good situation for me.....I watched them sign me out to go to AA meetings with me sponsor....And watched them worry when I returned back from a pass a minute late.....I watched them talk about me as a staff as I (admittedly) tried to manipulate the doctor into releasing me before I was ready to be discharged. I will be forever grateful to that hospital, to that program, to those doctors, to the staff for everything they did to me....they did for me.... they did with me..Because they cared about me until I was capable and willing to care about myself... And they were willing to guide me....to push me... to nudge me into being able and willing to care about myself in caring and appropriate ways.... I am grateful to say that since that time I have not had to return to a psych ward since.
Am I crazy? No...What, for the record are my diagnoses? PTSD and Depression.... The depression, by the way is caused by the surgical removal of my thyroid....

For what it's worth.....I just wanted to point out that not everyone in the psych wards is really "crazy"......

Kali


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RE: How do I find out if there's ever been any complain... - 11/8/2009 4:04:39 PM   
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Signed,

Red,
mother of a bipolar child
daughter of clinically depressed parents
friend to many who are dx'ed with various maladies
personal dx: anxiety disorder mixed with depression

I am in great company, and don't feel any better or any worse than the next "crazy" person.

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RE: How do I find out if there's ever been any complain... - 11/8/2009 4:08:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		Kali, thank you, and I have even more respect for you, and everything you have been through.

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