If they had just left me alone without being injected I think i would have calmed down if someone had just come and talked with me or to me or just given me time before rashly giving me an overdose injection that almost killed me😢
You can be forced long term even without committing a crime under guardianship. I'm under guardianship and forced on meds. I have mixed feelings. The most recent med change gave me my life back so that's great. They need to take you seriously when you say the med isn't working or is causing awful side effects. I was stuck on a med that didn't work and caused a movement disorder for years and now the movement disorder is permanent.
i HATE giving shots and the few times ive given them involuntarily , absolutely everything else failed. I never got write ups or citations from Risk for any of my hold-involved IMs because when i worked high acuity, it was common knowledge at my hospital that if i couldnt verbally deescalate a situation, noone else couldve either.involuntary IMs are expensive, yes they come at the cost of the prs's trust (not to mention the trust of all the other patients on the unit who are present) . Ruling a unit by the needle isnt therapy its incarceration and if you treat them like inmates theyre going to behave like inmates. Total lose/lose situation. I have a LOT to say about IMs , maybe i better just make my own channel
@@correlationqueen3565 im a lot like this guy. psych RN with about a decade of high acuity experience at an inner city crisis response center. if you have any questions, *ideally as specific as possible* id be happy to tell you ...
@@correlationqueen3565*i dont think he's a bad psych nurse , ive watched many vids on his channel and i have no doubt that he's one of those rare ones who is obviously there for the patients not the institution.. but i do disagree with his take on a lot of stuff. i try to not be obnoxious about it😅
This is a very believable story, I practically had the same thing happen to me. They didn't strip me naked but they corned me and forced an injection on me and locked me in a crazy room
I wanna start out by saying Lauren was SO brave. I'm new to a state hospital. I'm called a PCT. But I'm not new to mental illness. My dad was schizophrenic. My mom was bipolar. (They have both passed). They came together to have me. I've been drawn to mental health since I lost them. I'm working at a state hospital now (any advice would be greatly appreciated). I'm on the fence about forced medication. I understand her reluctance on the issue because she should NEVER be forced to take something against her will. HOWEVER, I feel it was for the betterment of the community. Let's say she's having an acute episode and she's hearing voices about someone else in the public. Then it's protecting the public because we (in the general public) telling her she's going to harm them, if that's the case, forced medication is definitely the route to go. But if she's only a threat to herself, she should 💯 100% be in charge of her treatment plan!!! This story breaks my heart. I very, very much agree with her that a more empathic approach should have been taken!!
I've always enjoyed your videos, but as a person with a history of psychosis whose trauma caused by mental health workers is often dismissed, I was pretty upset by you questioning her memory of events. Staff can write whatever they want in notes. That doesn't negate a person's experience. I have many episodes where I've been fully lucid, so that even when I was confused at the time because of my internal experiences, my memory was still in tact. Staff know they can get away cruel behavior because of this assumption that our memories are invalid. I was locked in solitary confinement because I had inconvenienced the staff, not because I was a danger to anyone. It made my psychosis so much worse. I was also forcibly drugged once, and coerced numerous times. The mental health system is a system of abuse.
I can totally understand how you feel this way. I'm just very surprised NOTHING--as far as we can tell from Lauren's story--happened to these 6 individuals. But that doesn't mean what happened didn't happen, if that makes sense. Certainly not trying to say it did not happen, and later in the video I address this b/c the last thing I'd ever want to do is invalidate someone's experience. Lauren's a trooper and stunningly courageous. I just really want to know if she pursued charges or requested a copy of the camera footage--if nothing was ever done, then we can guaranteed those individuals are going to continue to perpetrate :(. Thanks for your support and comment :)
Hey - copy of what happened - um - this gets ignored til the people give up !!! And - over at community mental health -- o e says - anyone can talk to a crisis worker if needed -- which is how it should be -- but they fail to inform that - it can & will be used against you
@@A_Psych_Nurse Thank you for your reply. I think it's very hard to hold any mental health workers accountable when there's an expectation that the patient's narrative is false. I've heard numerous other stories of recovery from psychosis and every one of them includes abuse from mental health workers-many of them severe. It seems to be pervasive. When I was locked in solitary I was not in the mindset to file a complaint because I thought I was being punished for what was going on with me internally. I did try to get my paperwork afterwards to see if there was any documentation about it but they refused to give me my records. A more minor incident happened during a later hospitalization when I was more lucid. There was a flier on the wall that stated my patients rights, and I pointed to it and told the staff that she was violating my rights by not letting me have access to my money (I wanted to give some to another patient who was being transferred to a facility that required money to make phone calls). The staff just told me to file a complaint and walked away. I did actually call the number on the form to complain and no one ever responded. The fact that mental health workers routinely violate patient rights at every level is one of the reasons I hate being hospitalized, and would rather suffer through episodes at home than reach out for help.
** i actually believe her account is credible.. even if its clearly minimizing the facts and also shows a complete lack of insight. I do believe everything happened as she said... I cant tell you how many patient grievance forms ive reviewed from the most out of control patients that read exactly how she is talking and its heartbreaking
@A_Psych_Nurse thissss ^^^^^ I've asked the same questions on other videos not on your channel. Yes I have experience in the medical field as well, specifically psychiatric and dialysis, and I can tell you I have one time been in the psych ward for 5 hours because of a delay in my medication and I had a massive and I mean massive imbalance that caused me to actually not say I wanted to kill myself, I simply said I don't want to exist but I don't want to hurt myself at all, I even stated that I can feel the imbalances like they are physical in my brain, and I was put into the psych ward from police officers I went to high school with in my hometown, so that was not fun but at the same time seeing this one patient completely go rampant slamming the thick and I mean nearing 6 inch thick doors, slamming them left and right left and right and then spewing out his past about how his stepfather used to rape him, he was nearly about to tear another patient's head off and that was one of the times where I felt that involuntary medication induction was needed, but there are many instances when I was working in that field I've seen patients that did not deserve it get it and that's enough evidence for me and yes there were cameras except nobody thought to ask for the footage or the facility light and said there was no audio it was all just physical motions and Gestures so we can't really tell unless we have pure evidence in my opinion❤ another great video by U2 by the way
Soon to be Nurse Grad here and about to give a presentation on the Ethical Dilemma of Involuntary Medication. I greatly appreciate this video and the way the viewpoints were presented. Hoping to have a very thoughtful discussion with my cohort regarding their views on this issue.
@@Aeiziumwow yeah I felt like i was waiting while they decided if i was just a body bag keeping organs working for them to use for more important people.
I have worked with for forensic population for approximately 30 years. besides working the floor I spent 10 years having groups on education about mental health medication‘s, criminal, thinking, etc. etc.. occasion I would ask the group if they were very psychotic living on the streets, not able to take care of themselves what they want a Forced medication or not 50% of them say yes, and 50% say no roughly. The problem is if you’re truly psychotic not from drugs how will you ever be able to take care of yourself? If you don’t get stabilized how do you become independent functioning if you don’t receive this medication if it’s forced on you. It’s a very difficult situation but I really don’t see a way around it if the only way for you to become stabilizes through medication.. also, the population I dealt with 70% committed homicide by fully psychotic
Thanks for this video. It puts things in perspective. My doctor talked me into going to the er. It was my choice though. Just a little empathy goes a long way.
WHAT DO YOU DO IF YOU ARE POOR & can’t afford a lawyer - they know they have people by the balls -- oh their day in hell is coming ! I’m speaking for the weak ones - Gods Word says WE are to help them
Personally I would have requested the camera recording and documentation surrounding the incident. Then if it looked like I had a strong case, I'd try and find a lawyer to take the case pro bono.
It seems like all the lawyers are slimey / Freemasons - they drink with the judges & drs …. Easier **** said than done -& where are these good samaritans / pro bono - I’m in Michigan & would love to know -- a Detroit dr - said - to get the 2nd opinion - but if mental health is punishing my person (( probably bc of me too ))))) .. they are soooo drugged up sick / paralyzed from the meds - they can’t help themselves
It happened to me. They lethaly overdosed me on lithium twice because the first time they destroyed the paperwork so the 2nd time they didn't know. I couldn't walk from the lithium and I couldn't hold my urine and they still forced it on me
There is a difference between causing a bit of a problem, and needing chemical restraint. If your behavior and actions are creating danger to yourself, peers, or staff, and have refused multiple approaches to deescalate - you will likely get shots. Our facility tries every alternate method of de-escalation before chemical restraint. We also are constantly letting our patients know what's happening, so they have every opportunity to get themselves under control. If Lauren's experience is accurate and consistently being experienced... The hospital should be seriously investigated!
Yeah the reason i was kept for nine days was because i began spitting on the floor in absolute terror told them i had to get it out because it tasted like gall so they attacked me for SPITTING on the floor. 😢 i needed actual help and all i got was isolation and almost death from an overdose amount of the drug they administered. I didn't even eat for days or sleep all they did was inject me for three days
When i began having a hypothermic response during Post Injection Delerium Sedation Syndrome in solitary isolation while still restrained... nobody came to help me when i said i was having pain and my file said thats when i went into hypothermia 😶 I was hallucinating and blacking out for days on the drugs. I dont take any drugs. 😢
Not sure where my original comment went but it said horrific😢😢😢😢 then I said imagine what would happen if you were in a rabid strain of nightmares in that sedation. That you couldn't escape from because you were so sedated😢😢
Recently I watched that Marley movie about the big goofy dog / Jennifer Aniston had a break down in the movie - after she wasn’t sleeping ***** & that scene WOW … but if that happens to others of us - WE could all be in Lauren’s position
Edit: had to edit the text a bit, for clarity, as I used some wrong words and bad wording. Hope the text is somewhat understandable I am not opposed to your viewpoint nor how you view forced mental health care treatment for those deemed mentally ill. It's a treatment that is never voluntary, you either do it willingly or we force it on you. It's merely an illusion of choice-the only choice being how heavily one will be medicated. If more people shared your perspective, things might actually be better, but psychiatrists hold all the power. Like Lauren in this video, I have experienced a similar nightmare scenario, which is why I will try to explain these drugs further, as I have done in other posts on this channel. You may not fully grasp the severity of these drugs, but your insights exceed those of many, but a selected few in the field. Lauren mentioned that looking back, she felt she needed those medications. I am not so sure. The reason is simple: regardless of what one may think, patients often develop a form of Stockholm syndrome and coping mechanisms in response to abuse. Looking back, it's impossible to determine if the medication was truly necessary because we cannot create two Laurens and experiment with both scenarios-using the drugs and not using them. Moreover, the Lauren speaking is under the influence of the psychoactive substance known as antipsychotic; therefore, we can never truly know. Now, let's explore the drugs further: These drugs are psychoactive and alter mental states. One could describe them as sedative psychoactive/psychotropic neurotoxic drugs, or as I like to call them, CNS-crippling psychoactive/psychotropic neurotoxic drugs. This description helps convey the severity of these drugs. Imagine if someone were to forcefully administer any psychoactive substance to you for the rest of your life, such as LSD, cocaine, or alcohol. This illustrates the severity of these drugs-they induce an altered mental state, reminiscent of a chemical prison. With prolonged exposure, this state can become the patient's new normal, and they may eventually be unable to escape due to the spellbinding effect or 'intoxication anosognosia' that many, if not all, psychoactive/psychotropic substances produce. Psychiatry has wrongfully attributed the supposed improvement in patient lives to this effect, as well as the totalitarian effect of psychiatric institutions. Patients may say and do anything to avoid torture, which is why some willingly take these drugs, having witnessed the consequences for those who rebel. This has been one of the most traumatic parts of the experience, a trauma fear I may never fully escape. This is why these drugs are so dangerous. Consider this analogy: in ancient Rome, lead was a significant problem and likely one of the major factors contributing to its collapse. People from all levels of society ended up in altered mental states due to lead exposure. Just as Rome fell from its love of lead, perhaps today's society may suffer from our dependence on psychoactive/psychotropic substances, which are infiltrating every aspect of our lives. Chronic exposure to psychoactive drugs is dangerous; it leads to living in a perpetual altered mental state. If enough people become disconnected from reality, who will recognize the dangers of it? Thank you for continuously creating content. It is reassuring to know that not everyone in the system believes this is acceptable. I understand you have worked and seen some severe cases, those I have not experienced, so I cannot truly speak on those cases. However, I will say that the withdrawal from these drugs made me so homicidal and suicidal that I was forced to self-isolate for almost a year. During this time, I also endured the worst psychosis I have ever experienced, mostly caused by the drug withdrawal. I cannot overstate how dangerous the combination of drug withdrawal and psychosis can be. It's like taking cocaine while being psychotic; it's extremely dangerous. The only saving grace is that I am aware of my psychosis, which prevented it from turning into a disaster. Similarly, I am psychotic as I write this.
When you are having to administer medication that can kill someone at the wrong amount or interactions should that medication really be administered in such a charged state?! When staff are just finished wrestling a patient like their cortisol is heightened why would it be wise to have them administer meds this way it seems so wrong to me. The ones who wrestled me administered my forced traumatic injection... their hearts were all racing as they used needles in me how strange really... not calm and methodical it was frazzled and tense
It's not sufficient to merely simulate the experience of forced medication in a mock setting. To truly understand the impact, individuals would need to undergo a minimum of 2-3 months on these drugs at the average dosage used themselves. Only then would they grasp the full extent of the effects, and they would likely reconsider administering these drugs to others. Additionally, experiencing the withdrawal process firsthand would highlight its dangers and the realization of having lost 2-3 months of their lives living in a chemical-prison-like state. Then after withdrawal and there mental state return to normal, you will put them onto the drug once more, to simulate repeat admission and repeat alteration of mental state. The shear terror of being forced onto the drug a second time would make anyone immediately quiet their job.Nobody would ever be forcefully put on these drugs again If you can not understand something, they you should experience it. That is the best way. practical experience leads to theory of understanding.
Nurse Sir 🙋🏼♀️ question - here’s what’s up & coming - happening now -& this group desperately needs HELP - cannabis use disorder / phychosis -- they give off schizophrenia bipolar symptoms ** but - just need to quit the cannabis- but won’t - bc they were lied to by sketchy weed drs / society that cannabis is “” medicine “” - & they can’t get out of the quicksand - omg
Paranoia can easily be created with paovlo's dog technique to repeat. When I go shopping, the cashier lifts the bottle and drinks when our eyes meet. So do police officers and others. Also private persons. He works in psychiatry, I'm new to the channel. Authorities in Sweden know what I see online. Why do you want to make me Paranoid. Yes, what does the doctor do about my real problem. You can't always write the truth in the journal. Then you create a substitute. Mental illness is often about being embarrassingly created in some way. I think you should accept life as it is. The environment and the family feel great shame. I am embarrassingly created, my life does not get better with an invented diagnosis and heavy medications
I put it this way, if some other humans can go through medical school and learn information, then patients who go through what Physicians pretty much tell them they should not go through or are not going through, are also more than capable of learning the information except they have more of an edge on the experience as they are Lab Rats to the medications or treatments given❤❤❤❤
My forced injection felt absolutely like rape. It was extremely traumatic.
If they had just left me alone without being injected I think i would have calmed down if someone had just come and talked with me or to me or just given me time before rashly giving me an overdose injection that almost killed me😢
You can be forced long term even without committing a crime under guardianship. I'm under guardianship and forced on meds. I have mixed feelings. The most recent med change gave me my life back so that's great. They need to take you seriously when you say the med isn't working or is causing awful side effects. I was stuck on a med that didn't work and caused a movement disorder for years and now the movement disorder is permanent.
what was the movement disorder?
@@alexandrastrauser5538 Tardive Tourettism
@@alexandrastrauser5538dyskinesia and/or tremors for example
Extrapyramidal symptoms
So there’s a need for a calming person who’s angelic to be there ✝️🙏🏾
For the people reading the comments -“” big pharmaceutical company’s fund mental health -- so it’s A LOT about the MONEY”””””
Everything is about money
i HATE giving shots and the few times ive given them involuntarily , absolutely everything else failed. I never got write ups or citations from Risk for any of my hold-involved IMs because when i worked high acuity, it was common knowledge at my hospital that if i couldnt verbally deescalate a situation, noone else couldve either.involuntary IMs are expensive, yes they come at the cost of the prs's trust (not to mention the trust of all the other patients on the unit who are present) . Ruling a unit by the needle isnt therapy its incarceration and if you treat them like inmates theyre going to behave like inmates. Total lose/lose situation.
I have a LOT to say about IMs , maybe i better just make my own channel
I would love to hear your perspective, as a parent of an adult living with mental illness. please provide link if you do so!
@@correlationqueen3565 im a lot like this guy. psych RN with about a decade of high acuity experience at an inner city crisis response center. if you have any questions, *ideally as specific as possible* id be happy to tell you ...
@@correlationqueen3565*i dont think he's a bad psych nurse , ive watched many vids on his channel and i have no doubt that he's one of those rare ones who is obviously there for the patients not the institution.. but i do disagree with his take on a lot of stuff. i try to not be obnoxious about it😅
“””your going to lose their trust “”” 13 point yes indeed
This is a very believable story, I practically had the same thing happen to me. They didn't strip me naked but they corned me and forced an injection on me and locked me in a crazy room
I wanna start out by saying Lauren was SO brave. I'm new to a state hospital. I'm called a PCT. But I'm not new to mental illness. My dad was schizophrenic. My mom was bipolar. (They have both passed). They came together to have me. I've been drawn to mental health since I lost them. I'm working at a state hospital now (any advice would be greatly appreciated). I'm on the fence about forced medication. I understand her reluctance on the issue because she should NEVER be forced to take something against her will. HOWEVER, I feel it was for the betterment of the community. Let's say she's having an acute episode and she's hearing voices about someone else in the public. Then it's protecting the public because we (in the general public) telling her she's going to harm them, if that's the case, forced medication is definitely the route to go. But if she's only a threat to herself, she should 💯 100% be in charge of her treatment plan!!! This story breaks my heart. I very, very much agree with her that a more empathic approach should have been taken!!
God bless you Lauren , I’ve watched a bunch of your videos ❤ I’m cheering for you !!!
I def agree "assisted medication" kinda sounds like euthanasia
Better believe it. Sometimes thats the goal😢
Basically it’s “we don’t want to deal with you/we don’t give AF about you “ and “you are more trouble than you are worth “
I've always enjoyed your videos, but as a person with a history of psychosis whose trauma caused by mental health workers is often dismissed, I was pretty upset by you questioning her memory of events. Staff can write whatever they want in notes. That doesn't negate a person's experience. I have many episodes where I've been fully lucid, so that even when I was confused at the time because of my internal experiences, my memory was still in tact. Staff know they can get away cruel behavior because of this assumption that our memories are invalid. I was locked in solitary confinement because I had inconvenienced the staff, not because I was a danger to anyone. It made my psychosis so much worse. I was also forcibly drugged once, and coerced numerous times. The mental health system is a system of abuse.
You are so right - the system can lie & say & do anything ! … & they DO
I can totally understand how you feel this way. I'm just very surprised NOTHING--as far as we can tell from Lauren's story--happened to these 6 individuals. But that doesn't mean what happened didn't happen, if that makes sense.
Certainly not trying to say it did not happen, and later in the video I address this b/c the last thing I'd ever want to do is invalidate someone's experience.
Lauren's a trooper and stunningly courageous. I just really want to know if she pursued charges or requested a copy of the camera footage--if nothing was ever done, then we can guaranteed those individuals are going to continue to perpetrate :(.
Thanks for your support and comment :)
Hey - copy of what happened - um - this gets ignored til the people give up !!! And - over at community mental health -- o e says - anyone can talk to a crisis worker if needed -- which is how it should be -- but they fail to inform that - it can & will be used against you
@@A_Psych_Nurse Thank you for your reply. I think it's very hard to hold any mental health workers accountable when there's an expectation that the patient's narrative is false.
I've heard numerous other stories of recovery from psychosis and every one of them includes abuse from mental health workers-many of them severe. It seems to be pervasive.
When I was locked in solitary I was not in the mindset to file a complaint because I thought I was being punished for what was going on with me internally. I did try to get my paperwork afterwards to see if there was any documentation about it but they refused to give me my records.
A more minor incident happened during a later hospitalization when I was more lucid. There was a flier on the wall that stated my patients rights, and I pointed to it and told the staff that she was violating my rights by not letting me have access to my money (I wanted to give some to another patient who was being transferred to a facility that required money to make phone calls). The staff just told me to file a complaint and walked away. I did actually call the number on the form to complain and no one ever responded.
The fact that mental health workers routinely violate patient rights at every level is one of the reasons I hate being hospitalized, and would rather suffer through episodes at home than reach out for help.
@@dyrefatei had to declare my rights to get my paperwork. Absolutely ridiculous. It was like a novel too. Like wow and 85% was way off.
** i actually believe her account is credible.. even if its clearly minimizing the facts and also shows a complete lack of insight. I do believe everything happened as she said... I cant tell you how many patient grievance forms ive reviewed from the most out of control patients that read exactly how she is talking and its heartbreaking
in the facilities you've worked at, are there cameras in the restraint rooms and elsewhere?
@A_Psych_Nurse thissss ^^^^^ I've asked the same questions on other videos not on your channel. Yes I have experience in the medical field as well, specifically psychiatric and dialysis, and I can tell you I have one time been in the psych ward for 5 hours because of a delay in my medication and I had a massive and I mean massive imbalance that caused me to actually not say I wanted to kill myself, I simply said I don't want to exist but I don't want to hurt myself at all, I even stated that I can feel the imbalances like they are physical in my brain, and I was put into the psych ward from police officers I went to high school with in my hometown, so that was not fun but at the same time seeing this one patient completely go rampant slamming the thick and I mean nearing 6 inch thick doors, slamming them left and right left and right and then spewing out his past about how his stepfather used to rape him, he was nearly about to tear another patient's head off and that was one of the times where I felt that involuntary medication induction was needed, but there are many instances when I was working in that field I've seen patients that did not deserve it get it and that's enough evidence for me and yes there were cameras except nobody thought to ask for the footage or the facility light and said there was no audio it was all just physical motions and Gestures so we can't really tell unless we have pure evidence in my opinion❤ another great video by U2 by the way
@@A_Psych_Nurselol it put U2 stupid voice to text putting the bands name instead of the actual correct spelling 😅
Soon to be Nurse Grad here and about to give a presentation on the Ethical Dilemma of Involuntary Medication. I greatly appreciate this video and the way the viewpoints were presented. Hoping to have a very thoughtful discussion with my cohort regarding their views on this issue.
My body my choice right.... as they say....
It does happen just like she says. There is nothing you can do about it when you’re a mental health patient.
mental health product*
@@Aeiziumwow yeah
I felt like i was waiting while they decided if i was just a body bag keeping organs working for them to use for more important people.
@@RKI20247 psychiatry is sinister. why are family doctors getting less funded than these so called 'specialists'?
@@Aeizium the willingness or ability and structural allowances to carry out specialized experimentations? 🤷🏻♀️ for one
I have worked with for forensic population for approximately 30 years. besides working the floor I spent 10 years having groups on education about mental health medication‘s, criminal, thinking, etc. etc.. occasion I would ask the group if they were very psychotic living on the streets, not able to take care of themselves what they want a Forced medication or not 50% of them say yes, and 50% say no roughly. The problem is if you’re truly psychotic not from drugs how will you ever be able to take care of yourself? If you don’t get stabilized how do you become independent functioning if you don’t receive this medication if it’s forced on you. It’s a very difficult situation but I really don’t see a way around it if the only way for you to become stabilizes through medication.. also, the population I dealt with 70% committed homicide by fully psychotic
Thanks for this video. It puts things in perspective. My doctor talked me into going to the er. It was my choice though. Just a little empathy goes a long way.
WHAT DO YOU DO IF YOU ARE POOR & can’t afford a lawyer - they know they have people by the balls -- oh their day in hell is coming ! I’m speaking for the weak ones - Gods Word says WE are to help them
Personally I would have requested the camera recording and documentation surrounding the incident. Then if it looked like I had a strong case, I'd try and find a lawyer to take the case pro bono.
It seems like all the lawyers are slimey / Freemasons - they drink with the judges & drs …. Easier **** said than done -& where are these good samaritans / pro bono - I’m in Michigan & would love to know -- a Detroit dr - said - to get the 2nd opinion - but if mental health is punishing my person (( probably bc of me too ))))) .. they are soooo drugged up sick / paralyzed from the meds - they can’t help themselves
@@A_Psych_Nursei asked the civil rights commission for this in my rape allegations and my case was dropped
Dont they all have assisted injections daily in The Giver????
It happened to me. They lethaly overdosed me on lithium twice because the first time they destroyed the paperwork so the 2nd time they didn't know. I couldn't walk from the lithium and I couldn't hold my urine and they still forced it on me
There is a difference between causing a bit of a problem, and needing chemical restraint. If your behavior and actions are creating danger to yourself, peers, or staff, and have refused multiple approaches to deescalate - you will likely get shots. Our facility tries every alternate method of de-escalation before chemical restraint. We also are constantly letting our patients know what's happening, so they have every opportunity to get themselves under control.
If Lauren's experience is accurate and consistently being experienced... The hospital should be seriously investigated!
Yeah the reason i was kept for nine days was because i began spitting on the floor in absolute terror told them i had to get it out because it tasted like gall so they attacked me for SPITTING on the floor. 😢 i needed actual help and all i got was isolation and almost death from an overdose amount of the drug they administered.
I didn't even eat for days or sleep all they did was inject me for three days
@20:55 THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT!!!
When i began having a hypothermic response during Post Injection Delerium Sedation Syndrome in solitary isolation while still restrained... nobody came to help me when i said i was having pain and my file said thats when i went into hypothermia 😶
I was hallucinating and blacking out for days on the drugs. I dont take any drugs. 😢
Horrific😢😢😢😢 imagine being injected and having nightmares that you couldn't even get out of because you couldn't get yourself away😢😢
I meant awake
Not sure where my original comment went but it said horrific😢😢😢😢 then I said imagine what would happen if you were in a rabid strain of nightmares in that sedation. That you couldn't escape from because you were so sedated😢😢
What was the event that led to this particular psychosis? It just happened out of nowhere?
Yup...I've got that injection before.not fun
Recently I watched that Marley movie about the big goofy dog / Jennifer Aniston had a break down in the movie - after she wasn’t sleeping ***** & that scene WOW … but if that happens to others of us - WE could all be in Lauren’s position
I would never seek help after that..they do that in jail cells....a lot of the staff are not educated and they enjoy the chaos...low intelligence
Edit: had to edit the text a bit, for clarity, as I used some wrong words and bad wording. Hope the text is somewhat understandable
I am not opposed to your viewpoint nor how you view forced mental health care treatment for those deemed mentally ill. It's a treatment that is never voluntary, you either do it willingly or we force it on you. It's merely an illusion of choice-the only choice being how heavily one will be medicated. If more people shared your perspective, things might actually be better, but psychiatrists hold all the power. Like Lauren in this video, I have experienced a similar nightmare scenario, which is why I will try to explain these drugs further, as I have done in other posts on this channel. You may not fully grasp the severity of these drugs, but your insights exceed those of many, but a selected few in the field.
Lauren mentioned that looking back, she felt she needed those medications. I am not so sure. The reason is simple: regardless of what one may think, patients often develop a form of Stockholm syndrome and coping mechanisms in response to abuse. Looking back, it's impossible to determine if the medication was truly necessary because we cannot create two Laurens and experiment with both scenarios-using the drugs and not using them. Moreover, the Lauren speaking is under the influence of the psychoactive substance known as antipsychotic; therefore, we can never truly know.
Now, let's explore the drugs further:
These drugs are psychoactive and alter mental states. One could describe them as sedative psychoactive/psychotropic neurotoxic drugs, or as I like to call them, CNS-crippling psychoactive/psychotropic neurotoxic drugs. This description helps convey the severity of these drugs. Imagine if someone were to forcefully administer any psychoactive substance to you for the rest of your life, such as LSD, cocaine, or alcohol. This illustrates the severity of these drugs-they induce an altered mental state, reminiscent of a chemical prison. With prolonged exposure, this state can become the patient's new normal, and they may eventually be unable to escape due to the spellbinding effect or 'intoxication anosognosia' that many, if not all, psychoactive/psychotropic substances produce.
Psychiatry has wrongfully attributed the supposed improvement in patient lives to this effect, as well as the totalitarian effect of psychiatric institutions. Patients may say and do anything to avoid torture, which is why some willingly take these drugs, having witnessed the consequences for those who rebel. This has been one of the most traumatic parts of the experience, a trauma fear I may never fully escape.
This is why these drugs are so dangerous. Consider this analogy: in ancient Rome, lead was a significant problem and likely one of the major factors contributing to its collapse. People from all levels of society ended up in altered mental states due to lead exposure. Just as Rome fell from its love of lead, perhaps today's society may suffer from our dependence on psychoactive/psychotropic substances, which are infiltrating every aspect of our lives. Chronic exposure to psychoactive drugs is dangerous; it leads to living in a perpetual altered mental state. If enough people become disconnected from reality, who will recognize the dangers of it?
Thank you for continuously creating content. It is reassuring to know that not everyone in the system believes this is acceptable. I understand you have worked and seen some severe cases, those I have not experienced, so I cannot truly speak on those cases. However, I will say that the withdrawal from these drugs made me so homicidal and suicidal that I was forced to self-isolate for almost a year. During this time, I also endured the worst psychosis I have ever experienced, mostly caused by the drug withdrawal. I cannot overstate how dangerous the combination of drug withdrawal and psychosis can be. It's like taking cocaine while being psychotic; it's extremely dangerous. The only saving grace is that I am aware of my psychosis, which prevented it from turning into a disaster. Similarly, I am psychotic as I write this.
great points. I think we think similarly about a lot of these things :). You're also a very clear writer imho.
When you are having to administer medication that can kill someone at the wrong amount or interactions should that medication really be administered in such a charged state?! When staff are just finished wrestling a patient like their cortisol is heightened why would it be wise to have them administer meds this way it seems so wrong to me. The ones who wrestled me administered my forced traumatic injection... their hearts were all racing as they used needles in me how strange really... not calm and methodical it was frazzled and tense
VA systems need to be held accountable ;
It's not sufficient to merely simulate the experience of forced medication in a mock setting. To truly understand the impact, individuals would need to undergo a minimum of 2-3 months on these drugs at the average dosage used themselves. Only then would they grasp the full extent of the effects, and they would likely reconsider administering these drugs to others. Additionally, experiencing the withdrawal process firsthand would highlight its dangers and the realization of having lost 2-3 months of their lives living in a chemical-prison-like state. Then after withdrawal and there mental state return to normal, you will put them onto the drug once more, to simulate repeat admission and repeat alteration of mental state. The shear terror of being forced onto the drug a second time would make anyone immediately quiet their job.Nobody would ever be forcefully put on these drugs again
If you can not understand something, they you should experience it. That is the best way. practical experience leads to theory of understanding.
agree 100%
Nurse Sir 🙋🏼♀️ question - here’s what’s up & coming - happening now -& this group desperately needs HELP - cannabis use disorder / phychosis -- they give off schizophrenia bipolar symptoms ** but - just need to quit the cannabis- but won’t - bc they were lied to by sketchy weed drs / society that cannabis is “” medicine “” - & they can’t get out of the quicksand - omg
Paranoia can easily be created with paovlo's dog technique to repeat. When I go shopping, the cashier lifts the bottle and drinks when our eyes meet. So do police officers and others. Also private persons. He works in psychiatry, I'm new to the channel. Authorities in Sweden know what I see online. Why do you want to make me Paranoid. Yes, what does the doctor do about my real problem. You can't always write the truth in the journal. Then you create a substitute. Mental illness is often about being embarrassingly created in some way. I think you should accept life as it is. The environment and the family feel great shame. I am embarrassingly created, my life does not get better with an invented diagnosis and heavy medications
I don’t have anything nice to say.
I guess I’m not as empathetic as I thought
What hospital are you employed at, does your hospital know you are posting these videos??
I put it this way, if some other humans can go through medical school and learn information, then patients who go through what Physicians pretty much tell them they should not go through or are not going through, are also more than capable of learning the information except they have more of an edge on the experience as they are Lab Rats to the medications or treatments given❤❤❤❤