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huskywowzer
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Joined: 03 Jan 2015
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Mon Jun 12, 2017 6:04 pm |
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Hello everyone,
I just wanted to put out some "awareness" of sorts when it comes to mental health. I originally lived in Colorado. I had to move to Maryland because my Dad got a brand new job at a non-profit organization. Upon moving here, my family and I had to spend a month in a hotel while we were looking for rent-able and affordable homes. Towards the end of the search, I was in the hotel room one day and something just snapped. I started panicking. I was brought to the ER by my Mom and the ER team put me in a behavioral health ER room. It was essentially a brick wall room with a video camera in the corner. After waiting over 5 hours, I finally got some Xanax to calm me down. I was then referred to a program called the Partial Hospitalization Program. This meant that I was to go to the hospital from 8am to 3pm on an outpatient basis, 5 days a week. During the program, I was introduced to an OT and group therapy. Group therapy is absolute crap, at least for me. It brought back too many memories. After 3 days in that program, I expressed that I was depressed and suicidal to the nurse working the program. She brought me downstairs in the hospital and to the ER. I was put in the same brick wall room again and had doctor after doctor come in and ask what was wrong. I finally spoke with a case manager and she decided to put me in the psych ward. A few hours pass and a friendly nurse with a wheelchair comes into my room and asks if I was ready to go upstairs to the Behavioral Health Unit. I said, "Yes" and I sat in the chair. After that, 2 security officers appeared from around the corner and started to push me towards the elevator with the nurse. It was embarrassing being escorted by security guards and a nurse. I was dropped off in the mental health ward. The nurses and staff went through all of my belongings and inventoried them. I wasn't allowed to have my crochet or cell phone. I was given my clothing and told to get dressed since I was in a hospital gown. After that, I attended various classes about depression, suicide, etc, etc. I remember one evening, I was staring out the window in my room and a male nurse came in my room and asked how I was doing. At the time, I was hearing voices and I told the nurse that. He told me, "Let me get you some brown M&Ms". I was confused by this, but I went with it. He came back with 2 pills that looked exactly like the candy. It was called Thorazine, an anti-psychotic. Upon taking them, my voices were immediately cured. I was put on that medicine for the remainder of my time there. I was in-patient for 5 days. When I was released, I was put back into the PHP program. I hated every second of it, mainly because the psychiatrist in the psych ward put me on 10 different medications. I was super dopey. After a month in the PHP program, I was referred to a TBI program. I got a new psychiatrist from France. He was this big, burly black guy with a thick accent. He told me that he had never seen someone on so many medications. He took me off of 5 of them and started me on a drug called Latuda. It was a miracle worker. I felt SO much better and I still don't hear any voices. He is still my psychiatrist because it's only been 3 weeks since my discharge at PHP. I am so thankful for him. He saved my life and took me off the bad drugs that the psychiatrist in the loony bin put me on. He called it absolute "malpractice" to have me on so many medications.
To conclude this long story, if you're suffering at all, please get help, even if it means you end up in the psych ward. It's not that bad. It kept me safe and saved my life. I feel so incredibly good right now. Call the Suicide Hotline if you need to. I've done it 5 times in the past and I'm only 19 years old. Just please get some help if you need it. I know how hard things can be. If any of you ever need to talk about mental health issues or need a shoulder to lean on, I'm here for you.
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Darthama
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Joined: 27 Jul 2016
Posts: 93
Location: USA
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Mon Jun 12, 2017 9:04 pm |
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Thank you for sharing. My grandmother had mental health issues but it was not discussed. I remember as a child being familiar with the signs when she was going to have a "break". I am 62 but as I type this I regress to the frightened child I was then.
She was not medicated because she would not go for help because that was a no no. She was able to function so she was under the radar but it could be hell with her sometimes.
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