Psych ward total detox

[sonicwhite]

I just came from there and they would not give me my xanax and I was getting sicker and sicker. ugh I still dont feel well. I got out took .5 xanax and it calmed me down but I was still psychotic. I had no desire to do cough syrup and I was like you guys can't just yank me off these benzo's and they still didn't listen. So They ask'd me do you think your suicidle and I said no but I feel like I'm getting sicker and sicker. But it was just like one crazy week very disturbing and I will never go thru that ever again. Very painful mental anguish that I didn't have to go thru if I would of just seen my doctor. K, thats enough ranting.

 

[mareseatoats]

Why did you end up in a psych ward? Because someone thought you were addicted to cough syrup? And then the ward staff took your Xanax away from you? I feel like I'm missing something here...-do forgive me for not fully understanding why you ended up there'in the first place.

And my best to you; very sorry for what you had to go through.

 

[xxsicknessxx]

im confused too were you 51/50 ? or did you check your self in..

yes I once got stuck in a psy ward and they wouldn't give me my suboxon , they had it in there medical place but they wouldn't give it to me because of some bull shit, it was horrible. They forced us to stay in are rooms 90 percent of the time, and my roomie was crazy I was sick and weak, and ... I have been 51.50 more times then I remember, really I don't remember half the times I was in them but of the ones I do there always a horrible horrible experience and never once have they helped me even once..

If you tell the truth they won't give you shit, I lied though a few times and got ox, and benzos and shit.... if you tell the truth your a addict, or your hearing voices they put you on horrible horrible drugs make you zombie I seen some bad shit in them places and I wouldn't wish them on anyone

anyways I sorta took a rant in your rant but tell us more what happened how did you end up there?

 

[sonicwhite]

Mo we have Saint Anthonies popping up all over OKC and I went there because I was afraid of what I was doing to my liver. but since they thought like I was some major drug addict that t that was chasing down cough syrup they didn't a full blown detox. I wasn't abusing the xanax just cough syrup but they thought they knew more about my body then I did. I truly started to go insane while I was in there. I even brought my meds to show them. to reassure them this is what I;m on and they still didn't listen.

 

[Pissangel]

Those psych wards are bad news. Everyone I've ever talked to who either went to one voluntarily or was dragged there by cops had an absolutely miserable experience. Having to beg for nicotine gum. And if you have to beg for that, you can bet they're not handing out any kind of medications that are going to help you through the situation. Whether you're prescribed them or not in some cases. Pretty fucking cruel.

 

[omt]

That sounds horrible. Luckily here in the UK with our National Health Service they would have been able to access your doctors records and see exactly what prescriptions you are on. Can they not do that in the USA?

 

[Pissangel]

I absolutely hate admitting this, but it's so relevant I can't not.

A few months ago, when I had literally hit rock bottom, I had heard through the proverbial grapevine that a certain hospital in my city offered a pretty solid detox option. So after a little bit of mental deliberation, I showed up at the hospital at 2AM and explained thoroughly why I was there and articulated the fact that I was in absolute terrible condition both physically and mentally due to a heavy habit of IV heroin. I was informed that the appropriate doctor wouldn't be there until 7 or 8 in the morning, but I was more than welcome to stay.

I decided to. A brief exam by a nurse practitioner turned my experience upside down, after answering a few questions far too honestly. I was involuntarily committed to their psych ward, because they felt I needed to be held for psychiatric evaluation (obviously I didn't feel that way which had me so enraged). A heroin addict confined to a room with people who are talking to walls and flinging their own shit. Appropriate? For the 12 hours I was in that ward, I wasn't even offered a fucking aspirin to help cope with the shape that I was in...and after all that bullshit, it was quite dire. I don't know exactly what would have happened, had I been prescribed anything, but from what I gathered from other patients you are very rarely even given the time of day by the staff. Even less when you're asking for medication.

 

[cj]

My experience of detoxing in the phych ward was not really pleasant but it was not really horrible either. There was a guy in there whos dad had him committed somehow through the courts because he did not like the fact that he was on methadone maintenance. Apparently the court ordered that he could not be tapered with narcotics. Dude was on 200mg a day of done that was tough to watch. I actually gave him some of my comfort meds that I managed to cheek. That experience really opened my eyes to how fucked up the mental health system of the US is fucked.

 

[Pissangel]

That experience really opened my eyes to how fucked up the mental health system of the US is fucked.

Precisely.