psychiatric nurses and patients?????? any funny experiences?

Question

what strange or weird or funny things have happended to you at work for or at the hands of psychiatry? i thinking of creating a website for such things? anybody got some oft told tales they wanna share?

Answer 1

I was in a psych hospital once. I had a very interesting 4 day stay there. I was 18 at the time, but I was still a senior in highschool so they kept me in the adolescent ward cause they had study and homework time. However, when they gave me a test to see what kind of study program I should be in, I was too advanced for them. So instead, they had me sit by myself and journal. Also, the ward half of the ward where the behavioural mentally ill stayed was full so my room was on the side with the developmentally ill. My roomate and I shared a bathroom with an autistic girl who would pound on the door and try to break in every time you took a shower. She'd also wander into my room at night and braid my hair while I was sleeping.
Now my roomate there was in a gang and when I got there, she was already in trouble for punching out a nurse. But I never had a problem with her. We would stay up all night talking. She liked me pretty well.
Oh, and when I got there, I had to see a physical doctor to make sure I didn't need any special needs like diet or excersize wise. But when I walked in there, the first thing the doctor said to me was "You look like you have bad acne. I'll perscribe something for you." I was pissed. Here, I was there for suicidal thoughts and behaviours, and this guy is pointing out my asthetical challenges. So I got up and walked out and went back to the day room.
So much went on in those four days there that I didn't even tell you the half of it. I told my therapist what was going on when she came to visit and she was like, "Oh God, that can't be helping. I'll get ya outta here." And she did. Now I just call her and she talks me through all those rough thoughts.

Answer 2

When I went into a psych hospital for trying to kill myself, there's this medicine called 'booty juice' that they inject through your *** if you freak out. A girl there named Paige spit on a guy nurse and before you know it six security guards were pulling her into the 'quiet room', while she was kicking and screaming the whole way. When one of the guy nurses came out of there, we asked if she got booty juiced. He was like "not yet.." then he came back again so we asked again and he just smiled and said, "she'll tell you in the morning." Paige was so loopy she could hardly even walk straight, they all carried her to her room haha

Answer 3

I was a psychiatric tech at the state hospital. I really enjoyed the job, nothing too funny that I can remember. It was pretty funny though, the day I started working in the highest security unit, I see a guy from my class in high school. Good test of staying professional at work.

Answer 4

Oh yuk...I got a good one for you. I was in a psy. hospital for a month 10 years ago. There was a male nurse there who was very handsome. Obviously, I was in there because I was way messed up, but I thought I could bring myself some comfort by flirting with this male nurse. Well I worked my wonders, and the day I was released, we went on a date. He took me to McDonalds and made be buy my own dinner. The relationship was VERY short, but in that short time, he (remember, this is a psychiatric nurse we are talking about) he would drive to Canada to get codeine by the huge bottle, would steal Valium etc from the psych hospital, take a bunch of them then try to drive me 30 miles away to go bet on horses. Then he told me he was a sex offender, he liked to park in front of convenience stores and flash women as they came out of the store. I know this is true because there was a newspaper article about him. At one point he had his license revoked. Several years later, when I gave birth to a preemie who was in intensive care for 6 weeks, I saw him in that hospital - he was working there. What this says about my local mental health "help" community makes me wonder.....

Answer 5

The very last time i grow to be in the health facility it grow to be a nightmare. because of my severe melancholy I also grow to be psychotic so i did not believe the health facility. I knew the superb element for me to do grow to be to get myself abode back. I had to maintain myself concentrated further and further on the international round me and attempt no longer to maintain getting lost in my own head. It grow to be this style of scary adventure that i do not favor to ever bypass into the health facility back. In a way this is a good motivation for me. on the finished, in case you're not any further able to protect your self at abode or are feeling risky, the health facility is the superb position to be. all the different circumstances i grow to be in the health facility I wasn't psychotic so it grow to be a good adventure. i wish you're doing ok.