Trauma
- bethanysfightforfr
- Oct 8, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 14, 2023
Patients who end up on a psychiatric ward are part of and have witnessed the worst kinds of trauma that no one should ever see or experience.
Patients headbanging, self harm, ligatures, attacking staff, restrained, seclusion, sedated, witnessing people come in then leave yet being left behind, witnessing deaths on the wards, screaming, alarms, clothes removed, hair cut off.
Finally got my PTSD diagnosis and I’m starting on trauma work to help alleviate my symptoms. Finally feel like I’m getting somewhere. (sadly, this still has not happened)
Absolutely disguised with the treatment at **** Hospital. To blindly cut my hair with ligature cutters mid-incident, I personally find it disgusting. I’ve already had a visit cancelled last minute and now they’re putting me through even more turmoil!!
The mental health system is an absolute joke! I understand that the hospital have a duty to keep you safe, but the hospital ought to have a duty to get you better, and by restraining young girls; cutting their underwear off and stripping them naked with 5+ people present, AGAINST their will, it’s dispicable; and then to deny them the last bit of dignity they have left, and to force them to wear what can only be described as the equivalent of adult nappies, I personally find it diabolical. I entered a hospital environment with sexual trauma and I will ultimately leave the hospital environment in the EXACT same mindset but with FURTHER sexual trauma.
Absolutely disguisted with my experience here on ********* ward. What was supposed to be a step down is actually more restrictive. I’ve had ho clothes since 11, leaving me in my underwear, then they removed my underwear, leaving me open and exposed. As someone who’s had sexual trauma, this process is vvile. At least on a PICU I’d be given strongs to preserve my dignity.
What I don’t understand is if a person is stripped naked against their will or forced to take medication against their will, you’d all yelll rape yet in the medical profession it’s humane and just. It leaves the same trauma
I can’t wait to get off this ward. It’s noisy so I’m ligaturing and my socks get cut so I’m in restraint and another patient starts kicking off telling them to leave me alone, so we have 2 restraints then the same patient starts recording me and another paigebt gets physically involved so there’s 3 restraints all simultaneously. THEN another paitent comes out and starts screaming at me that I touch little boys and another patient pulls her by her hair and spits on her, so there’s 4 restraints all within the space of an hour.
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