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Wrote this poem while facing psychiatric abuse and my own ptsd demons while in the psych ward last year. I am not anti-therapy/meds (my therapist is great!) but the conditions of this country's psych hospitals are appalling. I came to get help and got even more trauma instead! #MentalHealthMatters
11:51 PM - Jul 06, 2023
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Felt nervous about posting this bc of the stigma of admitting you've been a psych inpatient but honestly anyone who judges me for that isn't someone I want around me anyways. I know psych hospitals have helped people but they've hurt a lot of people too. It's time to talk about it.
11:53 PM - Jul 06, 2023
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Yeah, unfortunately my psych ward experience wasn't supportive or stabilizing.... the extreme opposite. just a lot of being forced to hide all my feelings and being afraid. I ended up with more trauma than I already had. I hope the situation improves. But thank you for being non-judgmental ❤
08:32 AM - Jul 10, 2023
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09:37 AM - Jul 10, 2023
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Yeah it's absolutely not like that in the US :( I have PTSD and dissociative identity disorder and I was treated horribly. No one has a clue how to deal with flashbacks and they blame you for having them. I was sexually assaulted by staff at multiple hospitals. I know others who also had that too.😞
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Some of the most amazing people I've met were other patients I was with. Speaking of vets, I met a very sweet Vietnam vet with schizophrenia and ptsd and they would not give him his medication, making him take a different one that was making him ill instead. He'd been there for months!
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