I've heard a lot of stories about tranners being insane getting sent to the psych ward. If you've been to a psych ward, how was your experience? How mentally ill is /lgbt/ anyway?
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Have you been institutionalized?
I've heard a lot of stories about tranners being insane getting sent to the psych ward. If you've been to a psych ward, how was your experience? How mentally ill is /lgbt/ anyway?
https://strawpoll.com/wby5A28Y7yA
they put me in the psych ward after srs because gender dysphoria is a psychiatric diagnosis... that was interesting
In what country? Gender dysphoria is a psychiatric diagnosis but in the USA you're not put in the psych ward afterwards.
I was in a psych hospital for 10 days. I passed in there (FWIW), all I can say is that it was like an Absolutely Safe Capsule. You are Absolutely Safe in there. I was in the suicide attempt ward. I shared a room with another transwoman who was older than I am and didn't pass.
It was more of a boring time than anything else. You wait around for things. You wait around for groups, you wait around for meals, you wait around for your meds. You don't really get any psych care in there. If you act out you get tranqed. There was a Black woman in there screaming that she was a MOORISH SOVEREIGN CITIZEN and didn't belong in there; the next time I saw her she was visibly very calmed down and had been tranqed.
usa the nurses said it was that to explain why the other patients were so... odd... and also that they were specially trained to treat us (apparently to misgender, harass, and medically neglect us but they were proud of their training). maybe what I get for having srs in the south. they mostly just neglected us. it's fun finding out that you can't get out of bed, that nobody will help you, and that if anyone comes by they will be rude. if I wasn't so passive maybe I could've complained to someone but what good would it have done especially if on purpose
hah it was the screamers they were trying to explain. they seemed entirely unprepared for someone who just had surgery. at some point they yelled at me for bleeding on the sheets
I've known people who've had SRS in the South and nothing like that happened to them. If the statute of limitations hasn't run out I think you should look into suing for medical neglect. I am not a lawyer.
eh what's a judge going to say? there's no evidence and I'm sure they covered their butts. I know they lied on the chart as I begged for medicine. at the time they lied to me. maybe I shouldn't have been so trusting and maybe asked the doctor later but I don't like rocking the boat. they also took my blankets away as punishment for bleeding on them. I was quite relieved to get out of that place. I thought getting a vagina would be a happy moment in my life but it sure hasn't been.
also the judge is probably just as transphobic as they are and I don't need to risk something worse happening to me
Go see a lawyer about this, there's always someone eager to take a bite out of a medical company for malpractice. You are the only one who can fight for yourself.
I fucked up the strawpoll sorry
Fixed version: https://strawpoll.com/YVyPm1RBBnN
cis butch lesbian here, i have been inpatient 3 times and sectioned twice (UK). i met LOADS of trans people, especially on the adolescent ward. if you're trans, don't go inpatient. i also one found a notebook in one of the rooms belonging to an ex-patient who orchi'd herself.
ya had to go after day i was found overdosed as a suicide attempt. got to watch a lot of seinfeld
I voluntarily* went under observation for a few days because I was really suicidal. It was miserable and has left a very bad taste in my mouth for ever going back or risking being open enough to providers that they may force me to go back.
*My doctor told me that if I didn't go to the ER willingly then the police would drag me there kicking and screaming.
pussied out of a suicide attempt and ended up in one. was in a hotel room and nobody could pick me up so i had to go to the er and yea. i got to read a lot while i was there, honestly it was okay. nobody could tell i was trans because i don't pass at all so like it was whatever
I was in a psych ward for a couple of weeks as a pre-hrt repper (unexpected, i know). Apart from the entire being locked up, not allowed "dangerous" things and being fed meds thing, it was honestly pretty chill. I consider it preferable to being with my dad since the psych ward staff dont scream and shove you around for absolutely no reason. I really just slept or stared at a wall most of the day, some homosexual doctor tried to test me for personality disorders on the basis of me being rude though, but oh well.
I called the suicide hotline because that's what they tell you you're supposed to do. I knew it was a horrible idea but I was just so, so desperate, and I truly felt like it was either that or killing myself. I made the horrible mistake of going along with what they said and being fully cooperative, and I got nothing but abuse for it. I was explicitly lied to multiple times about what was going to happen to me. They told me that since I wanted the help, since I was asking for it, since I clearly wanted to get better and wasn't fighting them or actively trying to hurt myself, that they wouldn't have to hospitalize me. They lied. They told me they wanted to help me. They lied. While I was in that prison (it's not a hospital. it's a prison. no medical care was provided in that place.) they made absolutely 0 attempt at providing any semblance of treatment. I was never given the opportunity to talk to anyone or get any kind of help. There was no """therapy""". I was just passed to from person to person, lied to by everyone I met, and denied basic human rights. It was a fucking waiting room you just sit in with nothing to do until they arbitrarily decide to let you out. It was probably the worst experience of my life. Honestly, I think about going to burn the place down. If I could murder the doctor who was in charge of my unit and get away with it I would without any remorse. Upon release I was provided with no resources to try and get any further "help". They literally just kidnapped me, and made everything worse. It is an unimaginably evil system. True evil. I wish harm on all of those who are responsible for what happened to me and all the other people forced to go through this nightmare. After I got out I found a therapist ON MY OWN, which was extremely difficult. She's 1000x better than the people in there were, I see her twice a week. I'm still suicidal.
does this still happen with the new 988 number or whatever? i thought this only happened if you were threatening to kill yourself right then and there...
I didn't call anyone myself but I had the cops called on me so I had to go get an involuntary psych eval. During the evaluation I said I wasn't actively suicidal but I thought that life didn't feel worth living and that was enough to lock me up for a week.
988 is what i dialed
the people who i spoke to literally told me that the whole point of their job was to AVOID unnecessary hospitalization. I was literally as friendly and cooperative as I possibly could have been. I did everything they said. They still locked me up, and refused to treat me. And now they are forcing me to pay thousands of dollars for their legally sanctioned kidnapping of someone who committed the horrible crime of asking for help. I didn't threaten to kill or even hurt myself at all at any point to a single person I spoke to. I just admitted that I had been experiencing severe suicidal thoughts and wanted help. Never again. Those people are snakes. I've never looked pure evil in the eye like that before. I am absolutely horrified by my experience.
I would not wish it on anyone. If you are suicidal, I implore you NOT to call the suicide hotline, or if you do, only talk to them and please don't give them your location. Talk to literally anyone else you can think of first. Try to find a therapist. anything. If you are thinking about getting in touch with any of these "suicide prevention" groups, please know about what you're getting into. They don't want to help you. There are people out there who do want to help, but they aren't it. They are evil, evil people.
I worked for a suicide hotline and a government-sanctioned medical board forces American hotline operators to call the Cops if certain conditions are met, we don't have a choice. Unfortunately since it is government funded they often hire retarded people to man the hotlines, and those retards will often break policy and do things like lie about hospitalization policy to suicidal callers for some inexplicable reason.
Here's how you can use 988 without being hospitalized:
Use a VPN and join via webchat at https://988lifeline.org/chat/ & lie about your first name. Without an IP address or phone number you will be almost impossible to find unless you are giving it address.
Alternatively, just lie about your suicidality. You can talk through the pain you're experiencing and stuff but when they ask if you're thinking of kys, just say no.
This my time at a psych ward just traumatized me further to the point that I had PTSD nightmares about it for a year and the drug cocktail they kept putting me on and changing for being sad and having an autistic meltdown also fucked up my head for years after I stopped.
Ye I was bullied really bad in highschool so I sort of decided to go full anorexia to be better at girling than all the girls in school by being lighter than all of them even the short skinny Asian girl and I won by the end. But then had to go to an inpatient eating disorder ward. 0/10 recommend being a BMI of 14 you lose so much hair.
only when I was a suicidally depressed teen, once when I cut myself so bad I needed stitches and once I woke up in the ward a few days after downing a bunch of pills
yeah i went for a week when i was still a repper. one time i was boymoding and taking to this guy about it and he said he knew a lot of people who have been institutionalized but i was the first man he’d ever met who had lol
i was 14 and i didnt even realize psych wards existed so i freely told my therapist i was planning on killing myself
it was just really boring and depressing. everyone else was nice to me and liked me though which was cool. i learned new ways to self-harm and gained an immense distrust of any institutions
I was handcuffed by swat and put in an ambulance to the psych ward bc suicidal dysphoric
then I walked out a few days later and the cops gave me back my guns USA be cray
in this economy? fuck no. prior inpatient status is the most petit-bourgeois thing possible. i am literally too poor to be clinically crazy. plus all the grippy sock queens do is bitch about how it was just 7 days of time-out
i was there for 28 days lmao. thankfully i was still on my parent's insurance at the time, and my dad specifically got ones that had good mental health coverage cause my mom's a schizo
I was once, but I was just a dumb 13yo trying to get high on benzos that were prescribed to me for anxiety. I went from sober to woke up in the psych ward, everything between was a blackout.
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it sucked. in my place (i was a kid when i went) you had to do activities to be allowed outside of your room, so it was like a catch-22 situation. horrible system. we were allowed outside on occasion but there wasnt even any grass. the other patients were mostly very nice and very gay. one of the “mental health workers” randomly said my deadname out loud and laughed about it. also i got snack packs. im probably traumatized though.
also i had severe ocd and they had no idea how to treat it so they just tried dbt every few days and drugged me. at least the atarax was nice.
This all honestly tells me psych wards are just about putting away hard to manage people in a neat little drawer and drugging them as an end all solution, fucking crazy you could be forced to pay for what a random sicko could do to you for free anyways. Being stripped of your autonomy and being thought of as too stupid to manage yourself or give any proper resources is fucking nonsense
Not only that but the whole disability system and getting marked as retarded and invalid making it even harder to achieve any kind of independence is such insane, tyrannical bullshit. The world doesn't have to be like this.
Not at all, and taking it up to the very system is delusional, what's even the point in participating