Posted by LegWarmers on February 12, 2006, at 9:19:29
In reply to Re: restraints and seclusion » LegWarmers, posted by Gabbix2 on February 12, 2006, at 0:28:58
> 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.
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> 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.Exactly, and when you are not upset, but someone starts treating you like you are...the way in which they tell you to calm down etc can really provoke a person, especially when they have a severe mental illness. I may not be explaining myself well but I saw it in a movie recently and it was so irritating to watch. I have a teeny temper :) and if someone uses the wrong tone or words...! Well, yeah, I probably look a little insane!
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I've had three hospital experiences and only one was truly awful, but it did traumatize me.
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Oh yeah, I have heard of that study...terrible! Im glad 2 of your hospitalizations were ok. It makes me sick when people abuse thier use of authority in settings like that.Im glad I made sense in my first post, or that you followed ; ) I got a supirise seeing that I had posted at all!
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