When They Say “Danger” and Mean “Inconvenience”

Quite often, I’ve heard doctors and nurses here use the words “safety” and “danger” when really they seemed to mean “quietness” and “inconvenience”. An example is when the doctor told me about the time-out policy and said she wanted to talk about safety. While there’d been one safety incident a few days before the policy [...]

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Next Treatment Plan Discussion

Had my next treatment plan discussion on Thursday, and it was horrible. There is a new ward psychiatrist, who knows nothing about me. Furthermore, the recreactional therapist neither the sports therapist were present. There was a nice nurse – not one of my primary care nurses, cause one is on vacation and the other didn’t [...]

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Got an Official Time-Out Policy

I’ve been in the psychiatric hospital for over two months and am getting more and more convinced that I shold never have let this hospitalization happen. On Wednesday, I was given more privileges: I used to be able to go off the ward only with someone else, and then could go out alone for up [...]

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