I was recently involuntarily held in a mental hospital where I went through prison like conditions (strip search, had to wear scrubs, was locked in a room outside certain times a day, stuff like that) and thankfully came out in one piece after 8 days of this crap. I was just wondering why we subject people to these conditions when they haven’t even committed a crime?

  • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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    9 months ago

    It’s not just you that they’re worried could get stabbed, it could be anyone.

    I took some psych courses in University and one of my profs was full of anecdotes about patients he’d cared for, there were people who were perfectly nice and calm and then in a split second something would go unpredictably wrong and they’d be savagely attacking whoever they could get their hands on.

    And then a moment later they’d be beside themselves with dismay over having “lost it”, apologizing sincerely and profusely. He said it was really hard keeping on your toes in there. He permanently lost his hearing in one ear when one of his patients slapped him out of the blue one time, to both of their surprise. If anything remotely like a weapon was easily accessible it could go very badly.

    I’m sorry your experience was unpleasant, and of course I can’t remotely speak to it myself - it was your experience, not mine. But it could be that the stuff that was done was for everyone’s protection.

      • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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        9 months ago

        I think you may have missed a significant chunk of what I wrote. The prof told me that they couldn’t know who was going to try to hurt others. Often the patients themselves didn’t know whether they were going to hurt others.

          • carbrewr84@kbin.social
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            9 months ago

            And how do people know that? How do they know you’re not pretending to be a nutcase?

            Do you understand that people can pretend to be kind, normal, etc as a way to sneak things in?

            I’m sorry you had to go through these things, but you seem to lack some serious awareness of others.

          • Azzu@lemm.ee
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            9 months ago

            You may not be a nutcase, but you’re definitely lacking understanding for others. How is anyone supposed to know you’re not a nutcase? Only you are able to know that. It’s simply impossible for anyone else except if they knew you for many years.