This is why, when I had psychosis, the intake person told me to go home (and not go through admission) before I was further traumatized. I’m glad I did.
You're very lucky! Not everyone gets that option! Depending on how ill you are you could get sectioned like I did ...the police literally arrest u and Depending on what section will determine your length of stay....
I spent 7 years in a psychiatric hospital from age 13, until I was discharged at 21 years old. It was horrendous. You’d cry or have a panic attack and they would get 4-6 male staff members to pin you down, pull your pants down and inject you in the bum with acuphase to sedate you. Or you would be put into the secure room, where there is just a big foam block for a bed and a toilet in the corner and a staff member would sit and watch you behind a glass wall. I suffered so much awful abuse and treatment from staff and other patients over the years there and wasn’t the only patient there to go through similar. I am now 35 years old and still struggle with PTSD from it.
It’s been about a year since I was in the psych ward, I am diagnosed with ptsd but, I still have flashbacks from getting shots while in a depression induced psychosis.
@@Cupcake123Cupcakke where I lived at the time didn’t really have any care in the community set up (a small town in the UK) and many patients spent a long time in hospitals. They didn’t know what to do with you and you end up becoming institutionalised, which then made it harder to discharge you back into the community. You’d get lost in the system.
In my home town a man tried to get help from our psych ward. He went 3 times in one day begging to be helped and that he was going to kill himself if he didnt get help. He wasn't there enough to give his identity so he was sent home. The last escorted out by a security gaurd. He ended up going to our near by park and drowning himself. His death was listed as suicide. Personally I think.. his death should be listed as medical neglect.
@@leaann4550 it was tragic. One of the times he had his cousin with him. The details of the story make no sense to me. But it's enraged everyone including his family.
that doesn’t make any sense….if you go to a hospital and announce you want to kill yourself, at that point they are obligated to hold you for at least 72 hours….i don’t get how they were able to turn him away?
Hate how often this happens. My partner recently stayed in a ward and one of the other patients had just returned bc he told them he was not ready, they made him leave, and he tried to kill himself again.
I’m from Australia. My time on a youth psychiatric ward nearly killed me and left me with PTSD. Mental illness is the most absolutely exploited, unethical unit in the medical system. I was played games with, ridiculed, disenfranchised, bullied and mistreated. I have so many stories from my stay, but I’m lucky I got out before it spiralled into weeks long holds.
Wow it's crazy because when your somebody looking on the out you'd have no idea certain things like this happens in psychiatric wards I'm glad you got out sooner than later 🙏❤️
it is heart breaking that psych wards are the place you're supposed to go when you need help, i can't imagine how a situation like this could better anyone's mental health. Nia is SO STRONG! I'm so proud of her for being able to stand up for herself and other people around her who couldn't.
I saw a patient being abused at a psych center called rose wood in Baltimore . We snuck up there at night as bored kids and I peeked through a window , I saw a older white man tied to a chair being slapped repeatedly . His whole face and chest red . The nurse who was doing it was a older black woman and when I banged on the window I swear this woman looked like the devil as she turned to look . She looked scared after I banged … I remember security chasing us through the woods and a few years later the center was closed down for good because of too many abuse complaints …. My dad told me to stay away from there and I found out why that night
I have PTSD from my stay at a psychiatric hospital. It took me a decade to finally look up the facility and read other people’s stories and unfortunately I was not alone. Mind you everyone suffered mental/physical abuse, SA by other patients and staff etc. they also refused basic necessities such as water. They hit you. They do whatever they want with you. I’ll never go back.
My friend went through a similar thing. They were abused and sa by other patients in the ward, and the staff didn’t do much of anything to help. It’s just awful. Some psych wards out there can genuinely help a bit and make you feel safe, but others are so, so bad. Mental health awareness is slowly improving, and I hope things will get better ♥︎
I’m so glad that this interview exists I have never heard someone recount their experience at a psych ward with a story so close to my own and so similar to my experiences, this shit is so heavy and crazy and so hard to make sense of when you go through it first hand, made me really emotional to hear her say it out loud in words because it’s been so difficult in my experience to even make sense of or verbalize all the fucked up things that go down in state run mental facilities especially with all the gaslighting tactics of staff, it’s so degrading and dehumanizing. Listening to this brought me so much comfort thank you so much for sharing, abuse experienced in psych wards isn’t talked about enough if at all, and the way you have to reconstruct your whole life after you get out is so overwhelming and scary and hard and heartbreaking
You almost get scared to speak up about it psych wards are like government ran concentration camps. I hate to say it like that but leaving with more trauma isn’t productive for anyone after seeking help
This is an issue outside the US too, I've had eerily almost identical experiences in youth psychiatric hospitals here in Germany and heard many stories from other European countries as well. Abuse runs rampant where young vulnerable people desperately need help.
Es tut mir leid, dass du das erfahren musstest. Das sollte nicht so sein. Die Gesellschaft hat versagt, wenn wir die vulnerabelsten Menschen nicht schützen ❤
This is interesting to hear. At least from my point of view, we in the US sometimes perceive other countries (especially some parts of europe that seem to have better healthcare systems) having a somewhat better grasp on the importance of medical facilities being up to par. But its lovely to know that poorly funded/maintained mental health resources are universally bad 🤩🤩🤩
I spent 2 weeks in a psychiatric ward in 2019 and can sadly relate far too much. At the time I was in a 3 year relationship with my abuser & had sustained a knee injury turned chronic due to a genetic disorder I didn’t know I had at the time. Walking/standing was excruciating painful & I depended on a wheelchair for getting around. I came into the hospital with my chair and it was immediately taken from me once behind closed doors with the promise there would be one waiting for me on my floor of the hospital. Instead I was forced to go 3 whole days without any form of mobility aid provided to me. I was horribly mistreated and dehumanized during those 3 days, forced to literally crawl/drag myself across the floor to get around. I remember breaking down day 2 sobbing outside the glass nurses station and begging for my wheelchair or at VERY least an office chair with wheels so someone could help me get to meals and meetings. Instead they decided it would be better to just put me in the solitary confinement room which was closer to the main meeting hall. This was a white room with no windows and a metal bed chained to the floor. How. Dehumanizing. On day 4 a family friend was assigned to my floor as staff & she was able to advocate for me getting a chair for the rest of my stay - there was a closet with 6+ wheelchairs on my floor. Among the many other questionable things I saw, I witnessed a girl get assaulted by a man who was known to follow girls around and try to touch them. A woman physically assaulted me by grabbing my braid and yanking my head backwards, right in front of the staff. Absolutely nothing was done about either instance. People were also allowed to leave while still actively su*cidal because of their insufficient insurance coverage. What can be done? How do we better advocate for individuals at the whim of health professionals behind closed doors in facilities such as these where there is so much room for mistreatment & malpractice?
Ive been to the mental hospital too and one of the workers got arrested after I left for sexually abusing a minor!! It's disgusting how these people prey on the vulnerable. I got sexually assaulted by a psychiatrist too. it happens very often.....
One of the mental health workers tried to connect with me on a dating site following my experiences. he helped pin me down on a bed and inject me with drugs. so disgusting.
I’ve gone to the emergency room at woodhull. It’s famously a truly horrible and scary hospital. I needed stitches on a Friday night and had a panic attack out of fear because it was so packed, dirty and unruly in the walkway from the triage to the deeper part of the emergency ward. I am sharing this it’s really not okay and things need to change in the medical industry and especially at woodhull.
Man this is so sad, I feel like crying just listening to her experiences 😢 I feel for anyone who had to go through this , terrible! Glad she's speaking on it to cause awareness. Good job Dev, you're doing so well on the podcast love that you bring on so many different people who have important stories we all need to hear!
thank you for sharing your story. i was taken advantage of , had my pants pulled down and was sedated by 7 nurses and security guards at a mental hospital. they mocked me as well. laughed at me when i begged to speak to someone. drugged me really badly in january. i was only there for 24hours and the effects that had on me still effect me rn. i still have a pain where they sedated me at. when i got out the way everyone treated me when i told them what happened messed me up even more...i didnt have and friends or families support. no one cared. i live in nyc too, this happened at a hospital in the bronx. the way no one care for mental health patients sickens me. i wish i could do something to make a change. i commend you for having the strength to tell your story.
I related to her so much with my stay in the psych ward. Especially her saying that they told her “you don’t belong here, so don’t look like it” I didn’t know you had to “look” a certain way to be in a psych ward.
We are an OSDD system with autism who is also a survivor of institutional abuse in a psychiatric facility. Thank you for speaking up and spreading awareness! The hospital system NEEDS to change and be completely restructured based on correct social science and neuroscience. 🤕💪🏻
They kept me in an isolated unit for 22 days and gave me 4 mins to talk to a doctor before they started prescribing me 3 different medications and wouldn’t fed me until I took them.That’s separate from the ac being on 24/7 in December and a one blanket limit and the “booty juice” they injected in my arm everyday that made my arm bruise because of how many times they kept drugging me(couldn’t sleep on it and started asking them to do the other side out of pain) and that’s a summary lmao fuck psych wards got 0 help and was emotionally and mentally and physically abused. Won’t ever forget and hearing her story just shows it wasn’t just me :/
I worked in inpatient psych for years. I cried daily because it was so stressful and unfulfilling. I knew we weren’t even close to giving good care. The rules were asinine. That was just my first taste of how badly healthcare is collapsing. It’s only going to get worse (working as an RN for many years and fields.) It’s really really bad
Unfortunately the workers in these places also usually have it very hard :(( that’s why they stop trying. They don’t care anymore. They start to realize the help they thought they could give is futile under the system. So then patients suffer more as well. Our medical system is collapsing.
I will never forget when I shared with a teaching nurse who brought students about my sexual assault and she brought it up casually to trigger & silence me, in front of the students. The person who assaulted me was the son of the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. She referenced it as though it was a funny joke to the "human rights officer" who was an actual joke. She was teaching students from Endicott College in Massachusetts.
This happened to me too. I went to a hospital to get help and they made my situation way worse. It’s awful this is happening in our society, it shouldn’t b that way. It’s so heartbreaking/appalling that vulnerable disenfranchised people are treated this way.
thank you so much for sharing your story. i am currently in the process of getting my bachelor’s degree in psychology and used to work at a psych ward so i could obtain real life experience. it is almost to a t describing the hospital i worked at, which is why i left. basic necessities weren’t being met, patients weren’t allowed to take a phone call until a certain time and were only given 10 minutes, you weren’t allowed in your bedrooms until it was bedtime (which is an absolutely horrible rule considering that many patients are going on medications that cause drowsiness.) i loved the patients so much and wanted to stay because i felt like i was one of the only staff members that cared, but i hit my breaking point when a 9 year old child came up to me and told me a 16 year old was coming in to their room at night and sexually assaulting them and no staff saw it. when i went to report it to my manager, she completely dismissed what i was saying. this same hospital also has many lawsuits against them at the moment. i truly loved the patients and i still think and pray for them everyday, but being in such a toxic environment like that for 12 hour shifts was too much for me as an 18 year old at the time. thank you again for sharing your story. we need mental health reform and we need more people that care in the field.
thank you for sharing. i have an almost identical experience my first and only time in a physch ward. you really do feel "crazy" when you try to share your experience with people. as unfortunate as our experiences are, i am so thankful to hear someone else express the inappropriate treatment of many.
well that just seems horrifying. i cannot imagine how difficult it would be to feel like you're at rock bottom and then you come to the last option facility to get help, and people abuse you like this
I was forced into a psych ward as a teen 3 times by my abusive mom. Always the same one. I pleaded not to go but they didn't listen, so I begged the hospital to find a different one and they didn't care. They made me go to the same one. My mom thought she was helping even though I screamed and cried every time I called her telling her how HORRIBLE the place was. I won't name what place it was for privacy reasons but recently I saw a local news report that a staff there was caught kicking a CHILD in the head. There were also other disgusting things that were revealed. I hope that place gets shut down. It was so bad, I can't go a week without thinking about it.
Cat climbing on the table about 47 minutes in is iconic.. Also just want to say.. I spent time in adolescent psych wards as a teenager. One of the places I went wasn't so bad while my experience at the other place was traumatic.. it's genuinely terrifying how much care varies from psych ward to psych ward
Ive been locked in a secure unit whilst in psychosis. I only have vague memories of what happened but it was terrifying and has left me with trauma. I feel for everyone going through mental health treatment. Many times it is good but not all treatment is good. We are at our most vulnerable; we are not attractive victims, but we need protection. Peace and love to all survivors ❤
Looking forward to listening, as a survivor and activist/advocate. I was threatened with murder, threatened with physical assault due to my dietary issues, sexually harassed, exposed to bloody toilet paper, black mold, and feces during a global pandemic before vaccinations where available, blamed by the actual hospital for getting covid. I was terrorized, and have not recovered. I was only released due to getting covid19. There were glass shards in the recreational area, my roommate cut her neck with some of it. I started collecting the glass for the human rights officer, who had little to no power and did not care enough. I was also raped by the elder son of the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, who I met in a church group at age 16, he's a warfare expert working for the Navy now. Shortly after that sexual assault experience, I was labeled a variety of terms for hysterical woman and have been dealing with increasing mayhem since. I'm exhausted. I'm so glad and grateful you are covering this! I've been pleading with the DMH for about a year now, they all seem too busy to care. Law Enforcement doesn't care about the abuses, the assaults, the threats, etc. I hope that Nia gets all the support, advocacy and trauma specialized care she deserves. I'm on disability, with severe CPTSD, I hope I can support her in some way.
I cried when I listened to this. I went through almost this exact same thing this year. It was really hard and left we with even worse ptsd then I already had. She’s so strong ❤
I'm so glad Nia had the support of her mother. My mother was awful while I was being abused in the hospital, threatened to give away my dogs, petitioned to keep me there after I was threatened with murder by a man who picked up a mental health worker by the neck, after my room mate self harmed her neck with sharp objects she found outside. It's horrific that this is happening everyday in the USA. I am severely traumatized.
Thank you for standing up for others and calling out the staff at your own expense. I've been in some really bad spots in a couple of wards in a very horrible time in my life and very much bullied by the staff. I didn't have the words to stand up for myself. PTSD. Literally it was hard for me to talk. So thank you.
I was diagnosed with unspecified schizophrenia in 2019. And as someone dealing with auditory hallucinations I was sent to a psych ward. I didn’t have any bad experiences at all. I find nurses and the other were extremely kind and easy going. There’s was only one thing that happened and it was a another former patient who asked me if I wanted to have sex or something. I don’t remember very well but thankfully I just ignored him and I had the lucky of having a male friend in the psych ward who was actually looking out for me. I didn’t last long. I stayed only for 1 week cause my mom was actually fighting to get me out of that place. Currently, I’m working with children with special needs and getting my bachelors in Psychology 🙏😊 Jesus is good 👍 🎉
I used to work on a children and adolescent psychiatric unit and hearing her experience breaks my heart. There are people in mental health that genuinely care. I hope that her story helps promote change within the system because it is so important and very much needed!
I’ve never been inpatient, but I was out patient, and my biggest fear is being harmed at a facility, thank you coming out and sharing your story, it’s huge 💕
It hurts my heart to hear her story. Inpatient facilities can be great places for people to stabilize. But they're also difficult to manage and to regulate. More work needs to be done in this area.
I feel like this happens to most patients and nursing homes I feel like Cameras should be checked daily and staff should be taught and accepted into the job more hard then it is easy
Nia seems like such a lovely person and no one deserves to go through something like this. The mental health care system is so fucked up and shitty. Sending love to whoever is reading this ❤
They were gonna hospitalize me at 12 years old for anorexia, I was terrified so I basically told the therapist "no I'm fine now!" And took two bites of food and they decided that was enough to send me home. I'm SO GLAD it worked, I'm terrified of what could happen to a 12 year old little girl in a place like that.
I think what happened to this woman sounds like malpractice (A Psychiatric Social Worker listening to this can’t believe this happened). You need to talk to an attorney & the board that regulates this hospital. It’s the Joint Committee on Accreditation (JCO) in most instances.
Whew this was super triggering but I’m glad I made it through. I hope for the absolute best for her in the future and I hope she knows that her story is powerful and meaningful. I’m glad for her voice and her devotion to spreading her experience
i work at an inpatient mental health facility and it’s mindblowing how they got away with all of these unethical practices! we are also a co-ed facility and If a patient came to us concerned over being sexually harassed it would be heard, documented for the rest of the company to be aware of, and resolved accordingly. this field is not for them if they view this simply as a day job 😂 empathy, compassion, and overall wellness of the patient is top priority??? i don’t even wanna get into the liability and legal issues if anything happens to a patient while in that facility’s care like 😂 that place smells fishy. i hope they get shut down
Extremely unempathetic for you to insinuate that this is a rare and near impossible occurrence when it happens *often* every day. It's never happened to me before but even I have seen enough online to know that this is no joke, and as others have stated here you are using laughing emojis. You're disgusting and I'm not at all surprised that you're in this field if you can invalidate people so casually you probably grew up with horrific parents & you need just as much help as the people you think you're doing a service
I am glad she was able to share her story. I was admitted at an inpatient facility, to make this long story short, they didn't care about people with allergies having 2 patients (in my stay, 2 weeks) in anaphylaxis being picked up by an ambulance we had to call from the in house phone, they will diminish people who could not stand up from themselves, staff will degrade patients, and several patiens including myself got clothes "lost". I went in needing help which I didn't get, the trauma of seeing people degrading patients, and getting fired from my job since they refused to send me my paperwork. Instead they violated HIPPA regulations sending me the records from several different patients instead of mine. Something needs to be done, mental health is really important!!
This was another good video! This girl was so brave for sharing her story. The mental health care system is definitely not where it needs to be in order to help everyone going through mental health issues, especially in the US. I’ve heard other stories like this and it absolutely blows my mind with the way humans are being treated at these hospitals, which has been an issue for a very long time. It’s horrible and unethical. And what’s interesting to me is that mental illness is so glamorized especially on social media and people try to make it seem like it’s a fun and cool thing to have, yet it is so stigmatized and demonized at the same time. We need to be more empathetic and compassionate!
I have a very similar experience back in 2020. I was in for 2 weeks I felt like I was fighting so many battles in those 2 weeks. Having a voice in there seems almost impossible. I was on strong meds took me so long to recover. Even the transition to having my Mexican family understanding my battles. Thankfully I am very open and spoke a lot about it. I was able to overcome the traumatic experience. Thank you for telling your story
How is someone supposed to get better, if they are feeling threatened, scared and receive no actual treatment? I’ve battled mental health since the summer I turned, 18 … I’m now, 53. For me, mine is life-long … it’ll never go dormant or away, but luckily, I’ve never had to be placed in any facility. I wish this beautiful, articulate, kind, smart woman the very best … may her present and future be filled with happiness and the best of health!
Awful!!! THis breaks my heart... I always credit to my time in the hospital as what saved my life, and to hear others have such starkly contrasting experiences is devastating. This are unwell and VULNERABLE people! They should be taken care of and RESPECTED not abused! Jesus.
yeah no mental hospitals or wards are almost laughable depending on the state...because you are generalized and even with some of the staff just being predatory in whatever nature ..you are in danger and leave even more traumatized. NOT all hospitals are like this but it's too frequent. I've literally seen an older woman left in her fecal matter for hours and the patients had to advocate for her. SO many suppressed memories man.
Americans should never see a Therapist or Psychiatrist, since an accusation of suicidality will result in severe human rights violations at the hands of police and psychiatric staff.
this lady is so mindful of her experience! I remember seeing and experiencing such a similar time and she fully gets it. from the therapist she mentioned that doesn't agree with the system but is ultimately complicit to the staff that may not even fully believe that mental illness is real, treatable or that big of a deal. the physical control being used over engaging a patient in a cognitive conversation, the begging and pleading for necessities from the nurse stations, the people telling her not to cry or look emotional because she doesn't belong there and they'll keep her there. even the thought of wanting to just take the sleeping pills to try and get through the night so time would go faster. the interpretation of this lady is so needed to be spread and a biiig conversation needs to happen around this area
I was abused in a Psych Hospital in Florida and it took my job away because of it. These places need to be shut down. No human should ever be treated the way I was treated. I felt like an animal in there because of how rude the staff were. All of the staff were always on there phone and not letting us know when we will be released. My job had to set up an evacuation just to get me out. I had no reason to be in there and it truly showed me how horrible people can treat you. People don't know how horrible Psych Wards are.
I spent a week at an inpatient facility when I was in my early 20's. Luckily I didn't experience any abuse, although there were a lot of patients hooking up with each other.
I have a friend who is thinking about admitting herself and also seems to think it’s where you go for a break. I tried to talk her out if it. I told her psych wards are no joke and not to do it unless absolutely necessary.
@@watermelonineasterhay I did but you can only say so much over text without being pushy. We should be hanging out next week so I will have an opportunity to bring it up and explain exactly why it’s a bad idea. I just hope I discouraged her enough to keep her from making any dumb decisions until then.
I did a college project and did a tour of a juvy in the area. Exact same set up. There’s also a reality show where people try to “survive” some of the worst rated prisons in the US to expose the treatment there. Watching that show was too triggering because several things that happened happened to me or people I knew in a hospital.
@s0ulcode Like I actually witness and been though horrible situations at the psych ward but what is so crazy about it is that psych wards stays depend on the patient's Insurance. Actually I have a theory that psych wards are a prison pipeline like school
When I was s**cidal I stayed for 72 hours when the physciatrist saw me asked me if about me being an only child and then said I was just looking for attention and said I was just wasting his time because if I really wanted to D*e I wouldn't have wasted time on pills I felt like why am I on a hold if I'm wasting time that first night I was trying to sleep or lay there awake I hear the door open it was two male nurses they raped the woman in the bed next to me then sedated her I faked I was asleep in fear in the morning I made a complaint to the nice female nurse then my next meeting with the Dr. I was told that I was schizophrenic and was put on meds and released I tried calling the hospital administration to make a report but was dismissed as crazy by the way I'm not schizophrenic and am not on medication I haven't been s**cidal again but still battle CPTSD due to childhood trauma I don't know what happened to the lady I pray she's alright now that was 10 years ago
During a period of mental breakdown I had about a decade ago, I spent one day in a "low functioning" psych ward before getting moved to the "normal" ward. It was horrible. They didn't care about the patients, they had people with severe mental illness and the two movies they played for them that day were; Constantine, and the 40 Year Old Virgin. Completely inappropriate and horrid for people with hallucinations. There were spiders, it was cold, there was a "quiet room", I got stripped naked and inspected by some orderlies in a room with a window on the door so anyone walking by could see me, it was disgusting. This was by far the most disturbing psych ward I've been to, I was afraid for my safety as one of only two women there, but I have kept little gifts some of the patients gave me because they're so strange and endearing.
I was assaulted and after going to the hospital they involuntarily held me against my will. I was traumatized already and being at the psych ward against my will did not help. So much happened to me I wish I could forget it
so ive been seeing my psychiatrist since i was probably 14/15 and i admitted myself at 17 and he just so happened to be the psychiatrist on duty…this man didnt even remember me as a patient, it was fucking disgusting. i feel so sad seeing SO many worse stories than mine but i wish everyone peace 💖
I pray healing over everyone that’s been through this horrible abuse ❤. Absolutely disgusting behavior and I pray that these abusers are found out and what their doing comes to light. God bless all of you 💕
I was forcibly sedated because i was having a panic attack in the middle of a psychotic episode. I just remember before i passed out the nurse saying that I had “inconvenient” timing
this is off topic but you are so pretty honestly I’m so sorry that you are afraid of getting help we are on the same boat praying that you get the help you need and deserve❤❤
Well I think.. in the case that this girl only interviews based on traumatic experiences, it’s probably common in that space to have those thoughts. Doesn’t make it okay, but it makes you feel not alone. If you’re able to talk about it in this type of sense, you’re probably not considering it, but needing to be related to. It doesn’t encourage it in this type of sense if that makes.. sense.. lol
Never go to a psych ward on a Friday Saturday or Sunday. Definitely do not go during a holiday. I was at my hospital 7 days and the "doctors" and singular therapist was there for only 3 of those days. I checked myself in and came out more traumatized than I was before I went in. I thought I was going to die at points because they took me off of SERIOUS MEDICATIONS cold turkey. The techs are so mean, lazy, inconsiderate. The doctors and nurses were condescending and did not give a fuck. I saw the therapist 1 time because he wanted to be "proactive" with my discharge papers... aka it was the day before Thanksgiving and he was about to have a 4 day weekend. He was so oblivious that when I filled out my "Safety Plan" he didn't even notice that I put my own name as my "emergency person" (i forget what they called it) but i was so fucked up from coming off of all of those meds. The other patients were the only ones who cared. We tried to take care of each other bc the techs, doctors, nurses, and therapist DID NOT CARE. They literally made fun of us in front of our faces. I lost 11 pounds in that week because I am gluten free and they served pizza, french toast, chicken tenders, sandwiches. I tried talking to the nutritionist and she ended up scolding me for giving away my food instead of finding out a way to feed me... I could go on and on and on and on, man....I related to this SO HARD.
Idk what to do. My mom is insane and abusive, but I know the abuse that can go on behind those closed doors. She’s been once, and was on TONS OF substances and I’m sure she hallucinated, but blames she was abused by a male nurse. I called and was told she never had a male nurse, also claiming he carved “rape” into her arm. She was there for 2 weeks, her arms were clean. So that I believe was a lie, I haven’t said it to her face. I don’t know if she’s lying or what… gahhhhh. I need a break from her, and she needs help… but she’s only ducked up because of abuse she endured herself. I don’t want her to be miserable, but to find peace.. while I can also catch a break.
I went to the psych hospital a few times as a young teen. I remember the staff being so miserable and rude. The doctor seen the patients twice the whole time they were there. When they first come in and when they're ready to leave. They ask 2-3 questions, make 2-3 statements, and then leave the room. It's literally just a break away from regular life and responsibilities and nothing more, if you can't take care of yourself during that break being there isn't going to help at all bc the staff act like they hate you. It does nothing to assist with finding the will to be alive. But when I was in there I felt like I was finally around people who were like me and understood me, the other patients. I felt like I was fulfilling my purpose in life.. to be out of the way with no one having any expectations of me.. and I felt free to not try to be a regular person living a productive happy life when I actually just wanted to be dead. So being there felt relieving. Definitely didn't actually help, I'm 31 now & trying to heal over 15 years of severe depression. All they're there for is to make sure "crazy" people don't hurt themselves or anyone else physically. A place to put "crazy" people away from society so no one has to deal with them. They don't actually care about anyone's mental well-being, they only care that you're not following the rules of proper appropriate civilized behavior. The entire mental health industry is a failure. To me the saddest part of this whole thing is that some people, who are not even seen or treated as humans who are hurting so much inside and deserve care and respect and effort, spend their whole lives in places like this.. internally hating themselves more and more, feeling more and more hopeless, getting sicker and sicker. They are never shown a brighter possibility for who they could be or what life could be like for them.
I was @bused at a psych ward. Kept me unjustly for 10 weeks (keep in mind this was inpatient, NOT residential) Wouldn’t talk to my parents or let me talk to my parents, emotionally, physically, and seggsually @bused me in ways I can’t even write here. It was sick. Glad to know I’m not alone❤❤❤
You are so brave to do this! And your guest too! Do you have any idea how often does this happen, all over the world, both in developed and developing countries???? I'm from Romania and my Mom suffers from quite a few mental health conditions. The hospitals that she gets admitted to, some of them look like concentration camps. The doctors are used to being bribed and they don't treat you with kindness if you don't offer them little (or bigger) "attentions". They give patients sleepping pills just so they don't have to deal with them. If the patients "misbehave", they put them in some sort of solitary confinement, with their hands tied up, until they calm down (which sometimes can take days). And the list goes on and on and on...
I went to a really expensive rehabilitation place and I was shocked by disorganized it was and what a joke the classes were, when my parents came to take me home early because of how unprofessional it was they almost didn’t release my medication in a way to keep me there. I have one of the psychiatrist tell me I didn’t have an anxiety disorder because I wasn’t shaking and looking around nervously like most of his “anxious” patients do, when I literally had a heart rate over 110 everyday due to my anxiety symptoms.
I love how having a normal human reaction of becoming upset at being mistreated or neglected gets turned around to gaslight the patient into framing them as "having an episode", which encourages the staff to mistreat and neglect the patient even more. The staff sound more mentally unwell than the patients. Having no empathy is classified as mental illness.
I just found your channel and I have to say that I love these videos. It's interesting to hear these stories, I had been in a psych ward as well and I can relate to her story. I went thru a similar experience. patient abuse is more prevalent than you think it would be. I wish that wasn't the case, I wish there was more advocacy. P.S.- love seeing the kitties
Ive been in two before for almost a month each time. I hate it because your thrown in with everyone going through horrible things. You see terrible stuff deal with crazy situations. You have to deal with roommates suffering with other problems. I was in psychosis so it felt like I was hallucinating even more because did the amount of traumatic issues. Once your stabilized they just throw you out with more medications than you can handle. Your left to figure out everything on your own. Face all the mayhem you caused before going in. I wish this on no one not my very worst enemy. Mental health services are hard to get into and you have to fight tooth and nail to advocate for yourself everyday.
My times on unit (children's not adult) was hit and miss but there are things I'll always remember. Some people really cared, others didn't. One of the boys having his hands on one of the girls when no touching was allowed whatsoever. People working joking and making fun of a girl who experienced delusions, she was kind and just experiencing the world the way she did and was so sweet. There were luckily at least some really sweet and genuinely nice people there as well. But there were so many problematic things happening that if I noticed the bunch of nurses around should have as well. Girls were openly talking about making it look like they had eaten when they hadn't and it was like none of them cared sometimes.
I always tell people I would rather spend a month in jail (and I’ve been there before) than a week at the psych ward when they ask about my experience there it’s so dehumanizing and they make you feel so little it just makes your mental struggles worse I’m sure there are good one out there but majority of the time they end up making you feel worse.
This is why, when I had psychosis, the intake person told me to go home (and not go through admission) before I was further traumatized. I’m glad I did.
You're very lucky! Not everyone gets that option! Depending on how ill you are you could get sectioned like I did ...the police literally arrest u and Depending on what section will determine your length of stay....
that was angel on your side, sad she had to warn you about her own place of work 🧡
Something similar happened to me ❣️
Sending love and support in your journey. Thankful for that angel.
@@ToriOdevlin-mx3rh Stay strong in your journey. Supporting your mental strength.
I spent 7 years in a psychiatric hospital from age 13, until I was discharged at 21 years old. It was horrendous. You’d cry or have a panic attack and they would get 4-6 male staff members to pin you down, pull your pants down and inject you in the bum with acuphase to sedate you. Or you would be put into the secure room, where there is just a big foam block for a bed and a toilet in the corner and a staff member would sit and watch you behind a glass wall. I suffered so much awful abuse and treatment from staff and other patients over the years there and wasn’t the only patient there to go through similar. I am now 35 years old and still struggle with PTSD from it.
It’s been about a year since I was in the psych ward, I am diagnosed with ptsd but, I still have flashbacks from getting shots while in a depression induced psychosis.
Why were you in for 7 years there only supposed to keep you for 72 hours what happened if you dont mind me asking
@@Cupcake123Cupcakke where I lived at the time didn’t really have any care in the community set up (a small town in the UK) and many patients spent a long time in hospitals. They didn’t know what to do with you and you end up becoming institutionalised, which then made it harder to discharge you back into the community. You’d get lost in the system.
@@Cupcake123Cupcakkethey can keep you for as long as they deem necessary, I was sectioned for 3 and a half years in total.
@@hollyeales5751 oh ok that's a long time
In my home town a man tried to get help from our psych ward. He went 3 times in one day begging to be helped and that he was going to kill himself if he didnt get help. He wasn't there enough to give his identity so he was sent home. The last escorted out by a security gaurd. He ended up going to our near by park and drowning himself. His death was listed as suicide.
Personally I think.. his death should be listed as medical neglect.
that's infuriating! this poor soul was failed
@@leaann4550 it was tragic. One of the times he had his cousin with him. The details of the story make no sense to me. But it's enraged everyone including his family.
that doesn’t make any sense….if you go to a hospital and announce you want to kill yourself, at that point they are obligated to hold you for at least 72 hours….i don’t get how they were able to turn him away?
I think so. I think deaths should be labeled as they actually happen. It was medical neglect.
Hate how often this happens. My partner recently stayed in a ward and one of the other patients had just returned bc he told them he was not ready, they made him leave, and he tried to kill himself again.
I’m from Australia. My time on a youth psychiatric ward nearly killed me and left me with PTSD. Mental illness is the most absolutely exploited, unethical unit in the medical system. I was played games with, ridiculed, disenfranchised, bullied and mistreated. I have so many stories from my stay, but I’m lucky I got out before it spiralled into weeks long holds.
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Wow it's crazy because when your somebody looking on the out you'd have no idea certain things like this happens in psychiatric wards I'm glad you got out sooner than later 🙏❤️
it is heart breaking that psych wards are the place you're supposed to go when you need help, i can't imagine how a situation like this could better anyone's mental health. Nia is SO STRONG! I'm so proud of her for being able to stand up for herself and other people around her who couldn't.
I saw a patient being abused at a psych center called rose wood in Baltimore . We snuck up there at night as bored kids and I peeked through a window , I saw a older white man tied to a chair being slapped repeatedly . His whole face and chest red . The nurse who was doing it was a older black woman and when I banged on the window I swear this woman looked like the devil as she turned to look . She looked scared after I banged … I remember security chasing us through the woods and a few years later the center was closed down for good because of too many abuse complaints …. My dad told me to stay away from there and I found out why that night
At least u responded& did the right thing! It might have seemed insignificant,but u got the attention of that Demon!
Can we talk about her fit??🥹 the lil sweater shrug and the dress is GIVING
Yes!!!! Absolutely gorgeous 🖤
I was thinking the same thing. It also looks very cozy and comfy
Are u serious??
Yes super cute ❤
Obviously I was focusing on her story but I did keep getting distracted by loving her outfit ❤
I have PTSD from my stay at a psychiatric hospital. It took me a decade to finally look up the facility and read other people’s stories and unfortunately I was not alone. Mind you everyone suffered mental/physical abuse, SA by other patients and staff etc. they also refused basic necessities such as water. They hit you. They do whatever they want with you. I’ll never go back.
what was the facility?
My friend went through a similar thing. They were abused and sa by other patients in the ward, and the staff didn’t do much of anything to help. It’s just awful. Some psych wards out there can genuinely help a bit and make you feel safe, but others are so, so bad.
Mental health awareness is slowly improving, and I hope things will get better ♥︎
I do too. I’ve been in treatment for ten years now. Thank you for speaking out and I pray we will all find healing and hope.
What I learned when I was in the psych ward is that if you complain they will punish you and keep you there longer
Literally 1984
When she said woodhull hospital my mouth dropped. That place is dangerous and I’m unfortunately not surprised by her experience
I’m so glad that this interview exists I have never heard someone recount their experience at a psych ward with a story so close to my own and so similar to my experiences, this shit is so heavy and crazy and so hard to make sense of when you go through it first hand, made me really emotional to hear her say it out loud in words because it’s been so difficult in my experience to even make sense of or verbalize all the fucked up things that go down in state run mental facilities especially with all the gaslighting tactics of staff, it’s so degrading and dehumanizing. Listening to this brought me so much comfort thank you so much for sharing, abuse experienced in psych wards isn’t talked about enough if at all, and the way you have to reconstruct your whole life after you get out is so overwhelming and scary and hard and heartbreaking
You almost get scared to speak up about it psych wards are like government ran concentration camps. I hate to say it like that but leaving with more trauma isn’t productive for anyone after seeking help
THIS!!!!
This is an issue outside the US too, I've had eerily almost identical experiences in youth psychiatric hospitals here in Germany and heard many stories from other European countries as well. Abuse runs rampant where young vulnerable people desperately need help.
That’s because predators are attracted to vulnerability. 😩
Es tut mir leid, dass du das erfahren musstest. Das sollte nicht so sein. Die Gesellschaft hat versagt, wenn wir die vulnerabelsten Menschen nicht schützen ❤
This is interesting to hear. At least from my point of view, we in the US sometimes perceive other countries (especially some parts of europe that seem to have better healthcare systems) having a somewhat better grasp on the importance of medical facilities being up to par. But its lovely to know that poorly funded/maintained mental health resources are universally bad 🤩🤩🤩
this guest has such a way with words! if she wrote a book i would read it in a heartbeat
I wish I had a friend like her at the psych ward. Sadly, sometimes we have to rely on each other in there more than the staff. Love to her!
This makes me feel extremely lucky for being able to go to as good of a facility as I did. So sorry for everyone who has had a bad experience.
I spent 2 weeks in a psychiatric ward in 2019 and can sadly relate far too much. At the time I was in a 3 year relationship with my abuser & had sustained a knee injury turned chronic due to a genetic disorder I didn’t know I had at the time. Walking/standing was excruciating painful & I depended on a wheelchair for getting around. I came into the hospital with my chair and it was immediately taken from me once behind closed doors with the promise there would be one waiting for me on my floor of the hospital. Instead I was forced to go 3 whole days without any form of mobility aid provided to me. I was horribly mistreated and dehumanized during those 3 days, forced to literally crawl/drag myself across the floor to get around. I remember breaking down day 2 sobbing outside the glass nurses station and begging for my wheelchair or at VERY least an office chair with wheels so someone could help me get to meals and meetings. Instead they decided it would be better to just put me in the solitary confinement room which was closer to the main meeting hall. This was a white room with no windows and a metal bed chained to the floor. How. Dehumanizing. On day 4 a family friend was assigned to my floor as staff & she was able to advocate for me getting a chair for the rest of my stay - there was a closet with 6+ wheelchairs on my floor.
Among the many other questionable things I saw, I witnessed a girl get assaulted by a man who was known to follow girls around and try to touch them. A woman physically assaulted me by grabbing my braid and yanking my head backwards, right in front of the staff. Absolutely nothing was done about either instance. People were also allowed to leave while still actively su*cidal because of their insufficient insurance coverage.
What can be done? How do we better advocate for individuals at the whim of health professionals behind closed doors in facilities such as these where there is so much room for mistreatment & malpractice?
Ive been to the mental hospital too and one of the workers got arrested after I left for sexually abusing a minor!! It's disgusting how these people prey on the vulnerable. I got sexually assaulted by a psychiatrist too. it happens very often.....
One of the mental health workers tried to connect with me on a dating site following my experiences. he helped pin me down on a bed and inject me with drugs. so disgusting.
I’ve gone to the emergency room at woodhull. It’s famously a truly horrible and scary hospital. I needed stitches on a Friday night and had a panic attack out of fear because it was so packed, dirty and unruly in the walkway from the triage to the deeper part of the emergency ward. I am sharing this it’s really not okay and things need to change in the medical industry and especially at woodhull.
I used to live by woodhull. They call it killahull
That hospital is a nightmare
It's a bad hospital for sure
@@slylover123you've been there?
Man this is so sad, I feel like crying just listening to her experiences 😢 I feel for anyone who had to go through this , terrible! Glad she's speaking on it to cause awareness. Good job Dev, you're doing so well on the podcast love that you bring on so many different people who have important stories we all need to hear!
thank you for sharing your story. i was taken advantage of , had my pants pulled down and was sedated by 7 nurses and security guards at a mental hospital. they mocked me as well. laughed at me when i begged to speak to someone. drugged me really badly in january. i was only there for 24hours and the effects that had on me still effect me rn. i still have a pain where they sedated me at. when i got out the way everyone treated me when i told them what happened messed me up even more...i didnt have and friends or families support. no one cared. i live in nyc too, this happened at a hospital in the bronx. the way no one care for mental health patients sickens me. i wish i could do something to make a change. i commend you for having the strength to tell your story.
I related to her so much with my stay in the psych ward. Especially her saying that they told her “you don’t belong here, so don’t look like it” I didn’t know you had to “look” a certain way to be in a psych ward.
We are an OSDD system with autism who is also a survivor of institutional abuse in a psychiatric facility. Thank you for speaking up and spreading awareness! The hospital system NEEDS to change and be completely restructured based on correct social science and neuroscience. 🤕💪🏻
Do any of your alters tell you your disorder is fake?
They kept me in an isolated unit for 22 days and gave me 4 mins to talk to a doctor before they started prescribing me 3 different medications and wouldn’t fed me until I took them.That’s separate from the ac being on 24/7 in December and a one blanket limit and the “booty juice” they injected in my arm everyday that made my arm bruise because of how many times they kept drugging me(couldn’t sleep on it and started asking them to do the other side out of pain) and that’s a summary lmao fuck psych wards got 0 help and was emotionally and mentally and physically abused. Won’t ever forget and hearing her story just shows it wasn’t just me :/
I worked in inpatient psych for years. I cried daily because it was so stressful and unfulfilling. I knew we weren’t even close to giving good care. The rules were asinine. That was just my first taste of how badly healthcare is collapsing. It’s only going to get worse (working as an RN for many years and fields.)
It’s really really bad
Unfortunately the workers in these places also usually have it very hard
:(( that’s why they stop trying. They don’t care anymore. They start to realize the help they thought they could give is futile under the system. So then patients suffer more as well. Our medical system is collapsing.
yeah the trauma i have from psych wards is so awful. i’m glad people are talking about this now
I will never forget when I shared with a teaching nurse who brought students about my sexual assault and she brought it up casually to trigger & silence me, in front of the students. The person who assaulted me was the son of the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. She referenced it as though it was a funny joke to the "human rights officer" who was an actual joke. She was teaching students from Endicott College in Massachusetts.
If you can find a way to submit an official complaint about her to the university she’s affiliated with, pls do so!🎗
This happened to me too. I went to a hospital to get help and they made my situation way worse. It’s awful this is happening in our society, it shouldn’t b that way. It’s so heartbreaking/appalling that vulnerable disenfranchised people are treated this way.
thank you so much for sharing your story. i am currently in the process of getting my bachelor’s degree in psychology and used to work at a psych ward so i could obtain real life experience. it is almost to a t describing the hospital i worked at, which is why i left. basic necessities weren’t being met, patients weren’t allowed to take a phone call until a certain time and were only given 10 minutes, you weren’t allowed in your bedrooms until it was bedtime (which is an absolutely horrible rule considering that many patients are going on medications that cause drowsiness.) i loved the patients so much and wanted to stay because i felt like i was one of the only staff members that cared, but i hit my breaking point when a 9 year old child came up to me and told me a 16 year old was coming in to their room at night and sexually assaulting them and no staff saw it. when i went to report it to my manager, she completely dismissed what i was saying. this same hospital also has many lawsuits against them at the moment. i truly loved the patients and i still think and pray for them everyday, but being in such a toxic environment like that for 12 hour shifts was too much for me as an 18 year old at the time. thank you again for sharing your story. we need mental health reform and we need more people that care in the field.
thank you for sharing. i have an almost identical experience my first and only time in a physch ward. you really do feel "crazy" when you try to share your experience with people. as unfortunate as our experiences are, i am so thankful to hear someone else express the inappropriate treatment of many.
well that just seems horrifying. i cannot imagine how difficult it would be to feel like you're at rock bottom and then you come to the last option facility to get help, and people abuse you like this
I was forced into a psych ward as a teen 3 times by my abusive mom. Always the same one. I pleaded not to go but they didn't listen, so I begged the hospital to find a different one and they didn't care. They made me go to the same one. My mom thought she was helping even though I screamed and cried every time I called her telling her how HORRIBLE the place was. I won't name what place it was for privacy reasons but recently I saw a local news report that a staff there was caught kicking a CHILD in the head. There were also other disgusting things that were revealed. I hope that place gets shut down. It was so bad, I can't go a week without thinking about it.
Sometimes in this world, your eyes are so open and you are so sane that it deems you crazy.
Cat climbing on the table about 47 minutes in is iconic..
Also just want to say..
I spent time in adolescent psych wards as a teenager. One of the places I went wasn't so bad while my experience at the other place was traumatic.. it's genuinely terrifying how much care varies from psych ward to psych ward
Ive been locked in a secure unit whilst in psychosis. I only have vague memories of what happened but it was terrifying and has left me with trauma. I feel for everyone going through mental health treatment. Many times it is good but not all treatment is good. We are at our most vulnerable; we are not attractive victims, but we need protection. Peace and love to all survivors ❤
Looking forward to listening, as a survivor and activist/advocate. I was threatened with murder, threatened with physical assault due to my dietary issues, sexually harassed, exposed to bloody toilet paper, black mold, and feces during a global pandemic before vaccinations where available, blamed by the actual hospital for getting covid. I was terrorized, and have not recovered. I was only released due to getting covid19. There were glass shards in the recreational area, my roommate cut her neck with some of it. I started collecting the glass for the human rights officer, who had little to no power and did not care enough. I was also raped by the elder son of the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, who I met in a church group at age 16, he's a warfare expert working for the Navy now. Shortly after that sexual assault experience, I was labeled a variety of terms for hysterical woman and have been dealing with increasing mayhem since. I'm exhausted. I'm so glad and grateful you are covering this! I've been pleading with the DMH for about a year now, they all seem too busy to care. Law Enforcement doesn't care about the abuses, the assaults, the threats, etc. I hope that Nia gets all the support, advocacy and trauma specialized care she deserves. I'm on disability, with severe CPTSD, I hope I can support her in some way.
I cried when I listened to this. I went through almost this exact same thing this year. It was really hard and left we with even worse ptsd then I already had. She’s so strong ❤
I’m a nurse, we can’t give Ensure without a MD order, when staff is assigned to a patient for 1:1 care we cannot assist another patient.
Yes and ensures are high in lots of supplements, its possible it would affect her health say if she was pre diabetic.
I'm so glad Nia had the support of her mother. My mother was awful while I was being abused in the hospital, threatened to give away my dogs, petitioned to keep me there after I was threatened with murder by a man who picked up a mental health worker by the neck, after my room mate self harmed her neck with sharp objects she found outside. It's horrific that this is happening everyday in the USA. I am severely traumatized.
Thank you for standing up for others and calling out the staff at your own expense. I've been in some really bad spots in a couple of wards in a very horrible time in my life and very much bullied by the staff. I didn't have the words to stand up for myself. PTSD. Literally it was hard for me to talk. So thank you.
Nia-- you are so strong and so articulate! thank you for sharing your story
I was diagnosed with unspecified schizophrenia in 2019. And as someone dealing with auditory hallucinations I was sent to a psych ward. I didn’t have any bad experiences at all. I find nurses and the other were extremely kind and easy going. There’s was only one thing that happened and it was a another former patient who asked me if I wanted to have sex or something. I don’t remember very well but thankfully I just ignored him and I had the lucky of having a male friend in the psych ward who was actually looking out for me. I didn’t last long. I stayed only for 1 week cause my mom was actually fighting to get me out of that place. Currently, I’m working with children with special needs and getting my bachelors in Psychology 🙏😊
Jesus is good 👍 🎉
She is very articulate and beautiful ❤ just to let her know their are lots of people that are going through this and her story is so inspiring.
I used to work on a children and adolescent psychiatric unit and hearing her experience breaks my heart. There are people in mental health that genuinely care. I hope that her story helps promote change within the system because it is so important and very much needed!
I’ve never been inpatient, but I was out patient, and my biggest fear is being harmed at a facility, thank you coming out and sharing your story, it’s huge 💕
Happened to me multiple times. The mental health system is a joke
It hurts my heart to hear her story. Inpatient facilities can be great places for people to stabilize. But they're also difficult to manage and to regulate. More work needs to be done in this area.
I have experienced such horrible things in psych wards. I do not recommend them at all.
I feel like this happens to most patients and nursing homes I feel like Cameras should be checked daily and staff should be taught and accepted into the job more hard then it is easy
Nia seems like such a lovely person and no one deserves to go through something like this. The mental health care system is so fucked up and shitty. Sending love to whoever is reading this ❤
Talking about SI like
"The vibes were off"💀
I felt that
Had a similar experience in a mental hospital as a teenager. Thank you for sharing your story. Wishing you all the best
They were gonna hospitalize me at 12 years old for anorexia, I was terrified so I basically told the therapist "no I'm fine now!" And took two bites of food and they decided that was enough to send me home. I'm SO GLAD it worked, I'm terrified of what could happen to a 12 year old little girl in a place like that.
I think what happened to this woman sounds like malpractice (A Psychiatric Social Worker listening to this can’t believe this happened). You need to talk to an attorney & the board that regulates this hospital. It’s the Joint Committee on Accreditation (JCO) in most instances.
The social worker must have very little experience, this is standard, not unusual.
Whew this was super triggering but I’m glad I made it through. I hope for the absolute best for her in the future and I hope she knows that her story is powerful and meaningful. I’m glad for her voice and her devotion to spreading her experience
Your cats come around when they feel your guests are upset and it's freaking cuttteeeee🥺
i work at an inpatient mental health facility and it’s mindblowing how they got away with all of these unethical practices! we are also a co-ed facility and If a patient came to us concerned over being sexually harassed it would be heard, documented for the rest of the company to be aware of, and resolved accordingly. this field is not for them if they view this simply as a day job 😂 empathy, compassion, and overall wellness of the patient is top priority??? i don’t even wanna get into the liability and legal issues if anything happens to a patient while in that facility’s care like 😂 that place smells fishy. i hope they get shut down
it's absolutely nothing to laugh at, especially as a survivor.
@@wildlightarts right. The laughing emojis, trash
I'm so glad she got out alive🙏🏻❤️
….what’s funny?
Extremely unempathetic for you to insinuate that this is a rare and near impossible occurrence when it happens *often* every day. It's never happened to me before but even I have seen enough online to know that this is no joke, and as others have stated here you are using laughing emojis. You're disgusting and I'm not at all surprised that you're in this field if you can invalidate people so casually you probably grew up with horrific parents & you need just as much help as the people you think you're doing a service
Her introspection and articulation of her experiences is phenomenal to listen to. I hope she writes about her experiences
I am glad she was able to share her story. I was admitted at an inpatient facility, to make this long story short, they didn't care about people with allergies having 2 patients (in my stay, 2 weeks) in anaphylaxis being picked up by an ambulance we had to call from the in house phone, they will diminish people who could not stand up from themselves, staff will degrade patients, and several patiens including myself got clothes "lost".
I went in needing help which I didn't get, the trauma of seeing people degrading patients, and getting fired from my job since they refused to send me my paperwork. Instead they violated HIPPA regulations sending me the records from several different patients instead of mine.
Something needs to be done, mental health is really important!!
This was another good video! This girl was so brave for sharing her story. The mental health care system is definitely not where it needs to be in order to help everyone going through mental health issues, especially in the US. I’ve heard other stories like this and it absolutely blows my mind with the way humans are being treated at these hospitals, which has been an issue for a very long time. It’s horrible and unethical. And what’s interesting to me is that mental illness is so glamorized especially on social media and people try to make it seem like it’s a fun and cool thing to have, yet it is so stigmatized and demonized at the same time. We need to be more empathetic and compassionate!
I have a very similar experience back in 2020. I was in for 2 weeks I felt like I was fighting so many battles in those 2 weeks. Having a voice in there seems almost impossible. I was on strong meds took me so long to recover. Even the transition to having my Mexican family understanding my battles. Thankfully I am very open and spoke a lot about it. I was able to overcome the traumatic experience. Thank you for telling your story
How is someone supposed to get better, if they are feeling threatened, scared and receive no actual treatment? I’ve battled mental health since the summer I turned, 18 … I’m now, 53. For me, mine is life-long … it’ll never go dormant or away, but luckily, I’ve never had to be placed in any facility. I wish this beautiful, articulate, kind, smart woman the very best … may her present and future be filled with happiness and the best of health!
Awful!!! THis breaks my heart... I always credit to my time in the hospital as what saved my life, and to hear others have such starkly contrasting experiences is devastating. This are unwell and VULNERABLE people! They should be taken care of and RESPECTED not abused! Jesus.
She is so smart! So wise. She’s going to be a great advocate for change . So impressed
I always look forward to this podcast. Great job.
yeah no mental hospitals or wards are almost laughable depending on the state...because you are generalized and even with some of the staff just being predatory in whatever nature ..you are in danger and leave even more traumatized. NOT all hospitals are like this but it's too frequent. I've literally seen an older woman left in her fecal matter for hours and the patients had to advocate for her. SO many suppressed memories man.
She is so wise and this story is so powerful
Americans should never see a Therapist or Psychiatrist, since an accusation of suicidality will result in severe human rights violations at the hands of police and psychiatric staff.
this lady is so mindful of her experience! I remember seeing and experiencing such a similar time and she fully gets it. from the therapist she mentioned that doesn't agree with the system but is ultimately complicit to the staff that may not even fully believe that mental illness is real, treatable or that big of a deal. the physical control being used over engaging a patient in a cognitive conversation, the begging and pleading for necessities from the nurse stations, the people telling her not to cry or look emotional because she doesn't belong there and they'll keep her there. even the thought of wanting to just take the sleeping pills to try and get through the night so time would go faster.
the interpretation of this lady is so needed to be spread and a biiig conversation needs to happen around this area
My psych ward was amazing and the staff was very caring. So sad to see how other people were abused when they were supposed to be helped.
I was abused in a Psych Hospital in Florida and it took my job away because of it. These places need to be shut down. No human should ever be treated the way I was treated. I felt like an animal in there because of how rude the staff were. All of the staff were always on there phone and not letting us know when we will be released. My job had to set up an evacuation just to get me out. I had no reason to be in there and it truly showed me how horrible people can treat you. People don't know how horrible Psych Wards are.
I spent a week at an inpatient facility when I was in my early 20's. Luckily I didn't experience any abuse, although there were a lot of patients hooking up with each other.
I have a friend who is thinking about admitting herself and also seems to think it’s where you go for a break. I tried to talk her out if it. I told her psych wards are no joke and not to do it unless absolutely necessary.
Tell her if she tries to discharge herself too soon they can section her if the Dr thinks she's not ready so it's a minefield
@@watermelonineasterhay I did but you can only say so much over text without being pushy. We should be hanging out next week so I will have an opportunity to bring it up and explain exactly why it’s a bad idea. I just hope I discouraged her enough to keep her from making any dumb decisions until then.
this channel shouldn't be called We Are All Insane but The American social services, police, healthcare, school system Are Insane
I personally think the Title "We're all insane " fits all of creation. 😇 Heaven help us all!
❤❤❤❤❤🥺 lots of love, from a 25-y/o mixed race girl w bipolar & bpd from london
she's so sweet and kind😢 i hope she's better now
I actually felt like prison was better than psych wards
I did a college project and did a tour of a juvy in the area. Exact same set up. There’s also a reality show where people try to “survive” some of the worst rated prisons in the US to expose the treatment there. Watching that show was too triggering because several things that happened happened to me or people I knew in a hospital.
@s0ulcode Like I actually witness and been though horrible situations at the psych ward but what is so crazy about it is that psych wards stays depend on the patient's Insurance. Actually I have a theory that psych wards are a prison pipeline like school
When I was s**cidal I stayed for 72 hours when the physciatrist saw me asked me if about me being an only child and then said I was just looking for attention and said I was just wasting his time because if I really wanted to D*e I wouldn't have wasted time on pills I felt like why am I on a hold if I'm wasting time that first night I was trying to sleep or lay there awake I hear the door open it was two male nurses they raped the woman in the bed next to me then sedated her I faked I was asleep in fear in the morning I made a complaint to the nice female nurse then my next meeting with the Dr. I was told that I was schizophrenic and was put on meds and released I tried calling the hospital administration to make a report but was dismissed as crazy by the way I'm not schizophrenic and am not on medication I haven't been s**cidal again but still battle CPTSD due to childhood trauma I don't know what happened to the lady I pray she's alright now that was 10 years ago
Thank you Nia for sharing your experience it validates so many people blessed be ✨💖✨
During a period of mental breakdown I had about a decade ago, I spent one day in a "low functioning" psych ward before getting moved to the "normal" ward. It was horrible. They didn't care about the patients, they had people with severe mental illness and the two movies they played for them that day were; Constantine, and the 40 Year Old Virgin. Completely inappropriate and horrid for people with hallucinations. There were spiders, it was cold, there was a "quiet room", I got stripped naked and inspected by some orderlies in a room with a window on the door so anyone walking by could see me, it was disgusting. This was by far the most disturbing psych ward I've been to, I was afraid for my safety as one of only two women there, but I have kept little gifts some of the patients gave me because they're so strange and endearing.
crazy part about I don’t know this young lady, I’ve never met this young lady & never been hospitalized in New York but this is exactly my experience
I was assaulted and after going to the hospital they involuntarily held me against my will. I was traumatized already and being at the psych ward against my will did not help. So much happened to me I wish I could forget it
so ive been seeing my psychiatrist since i was probably 14/15 and i admitted myself at 17 and he just so happened to be the psychiatrist on duty…this man didnt even remember me as a patient, it was fucking disgusting. i feel so sad seeing SO many worse stories than mine but i wish everyone peace 💖
2 years as a patient isn’t that long and that doctor probably sees many patients. I don’t understand how this is disgusting. Lol
@@spicymango9983 to not even recognize someone he has as a regular patient for two years is really weird.
I mean, he's still human. What exactly are you expecting? To be on his mind 24/7?
I pray healing over everyone that’s been through this horrible abuse ❤. Absolutely disgusting behavior and I pray that these abusers are found out and what their doing comes to light. God bless all of you 💕
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can't wait to listen to another story of a brave human
I was forcibly sedated because i was having a panic attack in the middle of a psychotic episode. I just remember before i passed out the nurse saying that I had “inconvenient” timing
This is why I’m scared of getting help, I know there are facilities that are good but I’m poor and yeah.
this is off topic but you are so pretty honestly I’m so sorry that you are afraid of getting help we are on the same boat praying that you get the help you need and deserve❤❤
she's explaining her suicidal thoughts of self reflection and the interviewer says "which is normal happens to the best of us" girl what
Thank you
Well I think.. in the case that this girl only interviews based on traumatic experiences, it’s probably common in that space to have those thoughts. Doesn’t make it okay, but it makes you feel not alone. If you’re able to talk about it in this type of sense, you’re probably not considering it, but needing to be related to. It doesn’t encourage it in this type of sense if that makes.. sense.. lol
Never go to a psych ward on a Friday Saturday or Sunday. Definitely do not go during a holiday. I was at my hospital 7 days and the "doctors" and singular therapist was there for only 3 of those days. I checked myself in and came out more traumatized than I was before I went in. I thought I was going to die at points because they took me off of SERIOUS MEDICATIONS cold turkey. The techs are so mean, lazy, inconsiderate. The doctors and nurses were condescending and did not give a fuck. I saw the therapist 1 time because he wanted to be "proactive" with my discharge papers... aka it was the day before Thanksgiving and he was about to have a 4 day weekend. He was so oblivious that when I filled out my "Safety Plan" he didn't even notice that I put my own name as my "emergency person" (i forget what they called it) but i was so fucked up from coming off of all of those meds. The other patients were the only ones who cared. We tried to take care of each other bc the techs, doctors, nurses, and therapist DID NOT CARE. They literally made fun of us in front of our faces. I lost 11 pounds in that week because I am gluten free and they served pizza, french toast, chicken tenders, sandwiches. I tried talking to the nutritionist and she ended up scolding me for giving away my food instead of finding out a way to feed me... I could go on and on and on and on, man....I related to this SO HARD.
Idk what to do. My mom is insane and abusive, but I know the abuse that can go on behind those closed doors. She’s been once, and was on TONS OF substances and I’m sure she hallucinated, but blames she was abused by a male nurse. I called and was told she never had a male nurse, also claiming he carved “rape” into her arm. She was there for 2 weeks, her arms were clean. So that I believe was a lie, I haven’t said it to her face. I don’t know if she’s lying or what… gahhhhh. I need a break from her, and she needs help… but she’s only ducked up because of abuse she endured herself. I don’t want her to be miserable, but to find peace.. while I can also catch a break.
I went to the psych hospital a few times as a young teen. I remember the staff being so miserable and rude. The doctor seen the patients twice the whole time they were there. When they first come in and when they're ready to leave. They ask 2-3 questions, make 2-3 statements, and then leave the room. It's literally just a break away from regular life and responsibilities and nothing more, if you can't take care of yourself during that break being there isn't going to help at all bc the staff act like they hate you. It does nothing to assist with finding the will to be alive. But when I was in there I felt like I was finally around people who were like me and understood me, the other patients. I felt like I was fulfilling my purpose in life.. to be out of the way with no one having any expectations of me.. and I felt free to not try to be a regular person living a productive happy life when I actually just wanted to be dead. So being there felt relieving. Definitely didn't actually help, I'm 31 now & trying to heal over 15 years of severe depression. All they're there for is to make sure "crazy" people don't hurt themselves or anyone else physically. A place to put "crazy" people away from society so no one has to deal with them. They don't actually care about anyone's mental well-being, they only care that you're not following the rules of proper appropriate civilized behavior. The entire mental health industry is a failure. To me the saddest part of this whole thing is that some people, who are not even seen or treated as humans who are hurting so much inside and deserve care and respect and effort, spend their whole lives in places like this.. internally hating themselves more and more, feeling more and more hopeless, getting sicker and sicker. They are never shown a brighter possibility for who they could be or what life could be like for them.
I was @bused at a psych ward. Kept me unjustly for 10 weeks (keep in mind this was inpatient, NOT residential) Wouldn’t talk to my parents or let me talk to my parents, emotionally, physically, and seggsually @bused me in ways I can’t even write here. It was sick. Glad to know I’m not alone❤❤❤
You are so brave to do this! And your guest too! Do you have any idea how often does this happen, all over the world, both in developed and developing countries???? I'm from Romania and my Mom suffers from quite a few mental health conditions. The hospitals that she gets admitted to, some of them look like concentration camps. The doctors are used to being bribed and they don't treat you with kindness if you don't offer them little (or bigger) "attentions". They give patients sleepping pills just so they don't have to deal with them. If the patients "misbehave", they put them in some sort of solitary confinement, with their hands tied up, until they calm down (which sometimes can take days).
And the list goes on and on and on...
I went to a really expensive rehabilitation place and I was shocked by disorganized it was and what a joke the classes were, when my parents came to take me home early because of how unprofessional it was they almost didn’t release my medication in a way to keep me there. I have one of the psychiatrist tell me I didn’t have an anxiety disorder because I wasn’t shaking and looking around nervously like most of his “anxious” patients do, when I literally had a heart rate over 110 everyday due to my anxiety symptoms.
Woodhull is quite literally one of the worst hospitals in NY, period
I think what she’s trying to say about S is that everyone thought she was scary but she was just sick
I love how having a normal human reaction of becoming upset at being mistreated or neglected gets turned around to gaslight the patient into framing them as "having an episode", which encourages the staff to mistreat and neglect the patient even more. The staff sound more mentally unwell than the patients. Having no empathy is classified as mental illness.
I just found your channel and I have to say that I love these videos. It's interesting to hear these stories, I had been in a psych ward as well and I can relate to her story. I went thru a similar experience. patient abuse is more prevalent than you think it would be. I wish that wasn't the case, I wish there was more advocacy.
P.S.- love seeing the kitties
Ive been in two before for almost a month each time. I hate it because your thrown in with everyone going through horrible things. You see terrible stuff deal with crazy situations. You have to deal with roommates suffering with other problems. I was in psychosis so it felt like I was hallucinating even more because did the amount of traumatic issues. Once your stabilized they just throw you out with more medications than you can handle. Your left to figure out everything on your own. Face all the mayhem you caused before going in. I wish this on no one not my very worst enemy. Mental health services are hard to get into and you have to fight tooth and nail to advocate for yourself everyday.
My times on unit (children's not adult) was hit and miss but there are things I'll always remember. Some people really cared, others didn't. One of the boys having his hands on one of the girls when no touching was allowed whatsoever. People working joking and making fun of a girl who experienced delusions, she was kind and just experiencing the world the way she did and was so sweet. There were luckily at least some really sweet and genuinely nice people there as well. But there were so many problematic things happening that if I noticed the bunch of nurses around should have as well. Girls were openly talking about making it look like they had eaten when they hadn't and it was like none of them cared sometimes.
Psych wards and jails warehouse poor people in America. It’s always been this way.
She was abused because she was exposed to the poor and sick. This is Hillary Banks from the East Coast.
I always tell people I would rather spend a month in jail (and I’ve been there before) than a week at the psych ward when they ask about my experience there it’s so dehumanizing and they make you feel so little it just makes your mental struggles worse I’m sure there are good one out there but majority of the time they end up making you feel worse.