Posted by ed_uk on November 27, 2004, at 17:30:52
In reply to Re: On the psychiatric ward....., posted by lostforwards on November 27, 2004, at 6:37:39
Hi everyone,
I found the psych ward EXTREMELY boring. There was nothing to do except sleep and watch TV. I was there for about 3 weeks, saw pdoc about once a week. No therapy. The nurses had a bad attitude: 'there's no point talking to the patients, all we can do is medicate them etc.'
It was a National Health Service hospital in England. There was one locked psych ward and two wards which were not locked. About half the people on my ward were sectioned, half were 'voluntary'.
The nurses spent most of the time at the nurses station. Little contact with patients except when they were checking on them. Everyone was assigned a 'level' which determined how often they had to be checked on.
People I remember...
1. An Indian woman who was having ECT. Her memory lasted about 2 seconds. She asked the same questions 100s of times a day.
2. Man with one leg who was 'singing' all the time.
3. Incontinent man who couldn't talk.
4. Woman who thought she was in the garden of Eden.
5. Man who covered his ears to quieten the voices.
6. Man with schizophrenia who made face masks out of strawberry yogurt.
7. Depressed woman who was sectioned after trying to kill herself.
8. Man who was brought in after running naked through the town center.When I saw a man having a dystonic reaction (to Haldol) I was surprised because a nurse told him that the dystonia was a symptom of schizoaffective disorder!
Ed
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