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Have You Been a Patient in a Psychiatric Institution? This Forum is an Open Discussion. Let it All Out. We Are All In This Together.
Have You Been a Patient in a Psychiatric Institution? This Forum is an Open Discussion. Let it All Out. We Are All In This Together.
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Pretty sure it was more than 400 days for me. Elisa was so sweet. One can never be too honest.
It was only because of her that one of those 400 days I was graced with the experience and the psychological relief of having a few bad-girl bites of premium dark chocolate with a healthy dose of sea salt. It's so sad that she committed suicide a few months ago. She dressed herself in white and went to church before she jumped off a bridge.
They warned us many times: "cárceles, hospitales, y la muerte."
I'm pretty sure most of the people I met in there experienced suicidal thoughts at one point or another in their life. It was comforting to know I wasn't the only one.
It's good. It's bad. It's ugly. In no particular order.
Many reasons to be grateful. Today, I have "clean" ice for my "clean" water and I have the freedom to go pee whenever I need to go pee, whenever I can relax enough and not feel guilty for taking a pee break. I wouldn't call a life without ice, limes, sunsets, and sunrises a good life. It wasn't fun in there. But it was divinely ordered.
I believe the key here is when it is unwillingly. We all know "we can only help those who want to be helped." But when the people around us refuse to except the path we are choosing to walk, they think they can make us change by force, not realizing that that is only adding to our reasons of why not to change and we fight back even more. I have been struggling with drug addiction and my parent decided to take matters into their own hands. I am originally from Mexico and my parents tricked me into going to see an ill aunt of mine, next thing I knew I was in a rehabilitation center in Tijuana, against my will. It's a really long story, I was there for two years, everyday living with anger and frustration, trying to figure out a way out, to escape, putting up with nothing but verbal abuse and if you lashes out, which I was known for, I got carried away by four men, one each arm and each leg, locked away in a small room. If you still wouldn't calm down they hold you down and give you a shot to knock you out... I could keep going on and on.. the point is, this is abuse and it has to be stopped. I know there are places like this is the states as well, I've heard others talk about such experiences here. Do not stay quiet about this.
It's pretty bad.