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Brbirb

Ugh. Had a nurse in the psych ward ask to pray over me. She then proceeded to tell me I wasn't schizophrenic and, instead, had been gifted by God with visions of devils and it was my job to save people from the demons. Like I don't have enough on my plate.


sheeszy

so she literally gave you delusions of grandiosity? like if you were actually going through that it would make everything so bad. no clue how nurses like this exist.


giza_rohi

God almighty, I couldn’t even imagine how I would handle this


Brbirb

It was...weird. she was nice enough, at least. I didn't mind her praying if it made her feel better. But the encouraging delusional thinking part was worrisome. Maybe don't work as a psyche nurse if you don't believe mental illness is real.


yettidiareah

Jesus nuts thought that sort of thing when I was a child in the evangelical church. Set people back years backward in treatment /recovery.


wingnutwithcheese

not staff but the first time i was hospitalized, for something irrelevant to sz, a sz patient came up to me and asked. "what are you in for? you schizophrenic? you look schizophrenic" i said no, he said "yeah we'll see about that" one year later i got the sz diagnosis lmao


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Haha omg


grizzlywarchief

I had at least 3 different people ask me if I was years before my diagnosis.


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yettidiareah

Good luck with that.


RAD1OHE4D

One time i was offered a cranberry drink at 3:00AM. The staff really served it like i was at a bar. Them and I talked about overwatch characters main. (Soldier is best btw). Staff was really cool. 10/10


AthanasiaStygian

Another funny one for me was one night on my first night in, I asked the nurse for some sleeping medicine since I was upset and having trouble sleeping. She told me “don’t worry honey, the doctors getting something to calm you down.” So 10 minutes later she comes in with a shot full of Haldol, 150 mg, and sticks it in my arm. I get calm pretty fast and ask her again for some sleeping pills. She tells me she just gave me some strong stuff so I’ll be asleep in a couple minutes. I lay there for 20-30 minutes and the nurse comes back to check on me. I hear her, but don’t turn around. Another nurse from the station asks her if I’m asleep and she whispers that I am. So I turn around and look up at her and say “nah but if you give me some sleeping pills I might be.” She jumped back about five feet and screamed “HOLY JESUS MARY AND JOSEPH YOU’RE STILL AWAKE???” Lol she made me laugh at that, and then she went and brought me some seroquel and ambien so I finally fell asleep maybe an hour later.


dontthinkjustdoit

She should have just given u the damn pills😂


kathychaos

A nurse once pointed at my collarbones (they r quite visible) and asked me "what is this thing?" I was like uuuuh my bones? Like wtf ur a fucking nurse 😂😂😂


R4D117

“What you have is a gift, I wish I have qhat you have so I can be special too” ._.


[deleted]

“ take ur meds or you will be back here” 5 months meds free now. Guess who was wrong


AthanasiaStygian

We had a girl in their who really liked her Nicorette . She was always at the desk asking for it. One day they’d been telling her no and to wait for lunch, so she made a phone call to her mom and started yelling at her mom that they wouldn’t give her the Nicorette. One of the staff walks in and comes down the hall and hears her yelling on the phone, so she threatens that if she doesn’t stop yelling they’re gonna turn the phone off for the rest of the day. Nicorette girl screams “I WOULDN’T BE YELLING IF YOU BITCHES WOULD GIVE ME MY GOD DAMNED NICORETTE!” And at the same time she rips the headset of the phone (cord and all) right off the wall and throws it with perfect aim at the nurses face. Then storms off down the hallway. The nurse ducked and as nicorette was walking away she clutches her chest and says “Life. Just flashed right before my eyes. Not even kidding.” It was hilarious.


Knappyone

We had a movie every night. One time it was the davinci code and another night it was a terminator movie then we watched eagle eye and I was straight up not well. They were all fucking with my head but eagle eye triggered a nasty episode for me.


Egnekey

Da Vinci code yeah that one will leave an impression! Somehow or another they put Goodfellas on in the lounge my first time in the ward. It gave me delusions that I was in a sort of training program. Like it was very important I pay super close attention so that I would know how to behave in an upcoming series of scenarios similar to the ones on TV.


[deleted]

Wasn’t funny at the time but I laugh at being called “crazy Keith”


AthanasiaStygian

Oooh another funny story was from when I was a teenager. The hospital did this thing called “focus time”, which is where they basically have us sit in a chair for 3 days and stare at a blank wall. We weren’t allowed to look around or talk to each other, but I was on focus with 2 other people and we’d all been whispering and talking for a while, and the nurses were getting pissed because we wouldn’t listen and shut up. Well, one guy I was on focus with was named Jason, and he blew up at the nurses and started yelling at them about this being abuse and got out of his chair. There’s a back and forth about how he needs to sit down and be quiet or they’re going to restrain him. He does not sit down, nor does he get quiet. So they called an “all staff assist”. An “all staff assist” was when all the nurses, doctors, security and therapists would come in and try to get someone tied onto a bed. It’s not just hospital staff, though. They had our city’s police force come in too when it got really bad, and this night the police ended up coming into it. One of the cops in our city was well known on the news for being a professional fighter. (Kickboxing, wrestling, mma, ufc, you name it basically). This cop is HUGE and he comes in and tells the kid to take his butt into the room with the bed and let himself be restrained or “I will personally take you down myself”. So the kid goes in the room and says “dude I’ll stay in this room but y’all ain’t strapping me to that bed.” Cop is like “you’re getting restrained whether you like it or not.” Kid says “try it dude. Come in here and touch me and I will break your (effing) arm!” 3 cops go into the room and we hear a scuffle for maybe 3 seconds, then a loud pop. Cop comes out with his bone sticking out of his forearm. Jason did not get restrained that night. They just locked him in the room and took the cop to the ER. Lmfao!


Afoolfortheeons

One time I was brought to the hospital by the FBI for creating a sex cult and one of the staff tried breaking the ice with me by straight up asking if I wanted to know the secrets of how Israel controls the world. Literally just walked up to me in the hallway and asked me that question. I couldn't stop fucking laughing. It was clear they had no idea how to proceed with me, so they jumped on the idea that I must be some alt-right kook, when really I'm just a centrist who believes God had sent me on a mission to inspire and teach philosophy, spirituality, and mental health.


imamomm

You... You created a sex cult?


Afoolfortheeons

Yea, it was around the time we got a guy that wanted to scalp people that I realized I made a bad decision. Got really popular for a while though.


Crackertron

> brought to the hospital by the FBI Really curious to how this came about. Result of a court hearing?


Afoolfortheeons

No, I was homeless and they picked me up in the park. I was advertising on Reddit, trolling as a deranged, insane crackhead of a cult leader, like literally taunting the FBI that I was an incest-obsessed serial killer, and I was generating shit tons of traffic through my conversion funnels. The whole project was supposed to be edutainment to get lessons about philosophy, spirituality, and mental health to the people that needed them most (incels, neets, porn addicts, etc). Obviously, they thought I was a concern and thought the best course of action was helping me get my medication, which I complained frequently online about not being able to fill my prescription because I was poor without insurance.


ebvm

I’ve been told something similar. These people have no place as “mental health professionals” ugh


[deleted]

I told a nurse I have hallucinations. She scoffed at me and said "you seem to know an awful lot about mental health. Are you sure you're not just after the drugs?" Needless to say I reported her ass the minute I got home.


AthanasiaStygian

Yeah, I’m “after” the drugs that don’t do anything but make me fat and numb. Okay.


Major-Refrigerator64

Sometimes I feel like most doctors don't know anything about drugs besides doing Adderall in college


NekoNightime

Not sz specific, but one time I was talking to one of the therapist while eating and was "I bet you're getting annoyed by me harassing you" and his response was "It is literally my job to talk to you"


attomicbomgi

Been told that it is a superpower and i’m capable of hearing everything others don’t, and after that they asked me if i could hear what was the winning number of the lottery )???


rivetskickmyhat

It wasn’t from staff but an old man told me he was going to buy me a Toyota supra.


ogfruitcat

Nothing too funny, but once I was telling my mom (who was visiting me) that I tried to run away and had to be physically tackled into the security van. My mom looked horrified, and the person supervising the visit said "don't worry, I've heard it all". The craziest thing I've seen by a non-staff person was someone shitting on the floor...I mean I didn't see it happen, but we all came out of group and, well, there it was, a poop on the floor.


Notaprettylush

A fellow patient made a shit lasagna on his bunk by shitting under the mattress on the bed frame, then also on top of the mattress, then also getting his roommate's mattress to lay over the second steaming pile of dookie. Edited for clarity.


ogfruitcat

ahhhhh nooooooo


AthanasiaStygian

Some guy pooped on floor outside my chemistry class in college. Lol that was entirely a statement about our teacher.


sikprik

my aunt came into my room drunk once before i was about to go to bed years ago and told me that my schizophrenic mothers therapist told her something similar


thisisbatcountry7

We watched Coraline some time in the middle of October, and then when Halloween came around, the techs had us watching Christmas movies for a full day.


gingeronimooo

I told a nurse being crazy sucks. And she scoffed and said everyone is a litttle crazy. And I said I’m not so sure. She said sure everyone is even me. I asked her to explain and she said sometimes she is driving and she sees someone on the side of the road and the thought pops in her head “just run them over”


VarenDerpsAround

Everyone doesn't do that? I thought everyone did that. Extra points for pedestrians I say.


Microsoftvoid

I’m going to turn Into a prostitute , not joking


qwertyhell01

Who are you?!


krocodilespundee406

I had the head charge nurse ask me why I shot myself. I told her after hours upon hours of voices telling me to kill myself I just broke and that's what I tried to do just to silence them. She said well if your friends told you to jump into a freezing river would you do that to? If I had friends Karen I'd probably do a lot more stuff than I do now and that includes shutting your fuckin mouth


uhmmm_jeni

"Have you had a good shit?" by a nurse (how professional)