Posted by Gabbix2 on February 12, 2006, at 0:28:58
In reply to Re: restraints and seclusion » Racer, posted by LegWarmers on February 11, 2006, at 23:17:59
I think that's very true. Once you are seen through that filter everything you do can be misinterpreted. It's terrifying when you are speaking rationally, but you can actually tell at the time how they are percieving it.. and the more clear you try to make yourself, the further down you go.
Sort of like someone who is innocent, being interrogated by someone who is sure they
are guilty. If tháts what they are looking for, they will find it.
There was a study done a long time ago I *think* called the Rothchild study. Where students with no psychiatric history were (under pretense) "committed" to a psychiatric ward.
The psych ward found abbherent reasons for all their behaviour.
One student was taking notes, and so the "compulsive note taking" was seen as a sign of possible Schizophrenia.After it was over, the hospital was informed about what happened.
For the following week they found every person who legitimately needed psychiatric care who sought admittance "sane" and turned them away.I'll try to find a link to it.
It's pretty interesting, but it's been so long since I've read about it, that I may have mixed up some of the details.I've had three hospital experiences and only one was truly awful, but it did traumatize me.
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