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Sounded like a right weeze Mary J glad we could keep U entertained during your illnessI do feel that we have moved on from the days of the Victorian Fun shows when members of the public could pay to go and be amused by the Lunatics .......I have worked in IPCU.and other locked units over the years and I must say I don't find much humor in it There for the grace of God go I and I
Duppy man, I consider myself one of the lunatics. I found humor in it because they took away my chop sticks but let some crazy guy sit outside of my room "reading his paper", really, plotting the ways he was going to rape and kill me before someone noticed and made him go back to his room. Only humor in the way the place was run, like a ship lost at sea. One of the guys that was there was still there 3 years later when a friend of mine was. I, too, have worked in the locked down unit of a nursing home with the Alzeheimer's patients. That is not a funny situtation. But, the answer there was the same as it was in the mental ward of the hospital, drug up the loonies, keep them confined, and charge as much as possible for "care". I would never laugh at anyone there, only myself. As far as the lady who scratched herself with staples, she did it twice in one day and they did nothing but try to keep her in her room...but I'm sure her health insurance company got charged hundreds of dollars for "restraining her". The best part is the doctor who told me that with shock therapy I should be fine, it's just a little zap! Guess what, duppy man? I'm not fine, I'm as bi polar as they come and all the medication in the world won't make me better, just zonk me out so I don't notice as much. When there was concern because Serzone could possibly damage the liver I asked my doctor for a blood test because liver disease runs in my family (my dad and uncle died from it). She started sweating because she knew she'd never asked me about my family history..literally sweating. Guess what? My test results were mysteriously "lost". Now Serzone is off of the market, I'm on new crazy pills. As far as I'm concerned psychology is bullshit and so are all of the meds and I'm still as nutty as a jar of peanuts. There's nothing left to do but laugh at the whole situation.
we're all lunatics.. MaryJ/ its just how well we deal with things that places us on one side of the fence or the other,, and there's always crazy people in the Asylum.. staff and patient alike // leaning more towards staff than patient as I found some of the patients I've have met over the years made more sense than the other staff nurses I had been working with saying that I was involved in the setting up of a unit for patients with organic impairment which excluded them from other care settings due to their behavouirs we managed the ward of 30+ highly volitile patients with the Min amount of medication needed..using patient centered approuch giving the patient the run of the ward (under supervision) the incident levels dropped by approx.40% in the first year As for the SHOCK treatment well ECT. electro,convulsive, therapy. god knows what it does to the brain although I have seen cases where it appears to make improvements in the patients state of mental health;;;; Life is'nt Personel say I and I