Is there any way to direct message anyone on here? I’m usually not one for trying to form personal relationships (hence the suicidal tendencies) but some people on here seem like people I could actually really relate to and would like to chat with. Is there a chat function here or do you have to like exchange e-mails or something. Sorry I’m new here.
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The only way to message another on here is by commenting on their post. Yeah, if you wanted to chat with some1 on here privately then you’d have to exchange emails with them.. or something.
Hm that seems to isolate us poor souls even moreso than we already feel… or something. I “or something” a lot. Do you too or were you just making fun of me or something?
Lol. No I wasn’t making fun of ya.
You can always make a private email account to use for the site. Then it’s kind of like direct messaging.
That seems like a lot of work. Wow I guess I’m pretty lazy. Is that what you did Persephone?
I already had a few. It’s handy to have email addresses for various purposes so that you know what to expect when you’re checking them.
Hey that’s a good idea. Yeah it is kind of unnerving I’ve found, logging into my “normal” account I use for everything and seeing “suicideproject”.. makes me kind of check over my shoulder even when I’m alone. I mean I guess everyone’s gonna know eventually. Just don’t wanna be rushed anywhere cause lord knows a hospital won’t improve things.
Hospitals are ridiculous unless someone’s been injured or have a serious illness. You definitely don’t want that to happen. I had to fake my way out when I landed in one. I’m a pretty good actor, I guess.
That’s been my impression of them as well. My brother’s been in and out of the system for a loooong time and all that ever happened was him faking his way out when he wasn’t okay at all. But that environment I think made him worse.
Yeah… they don’t let you have any freedom, not to mention the food is absolute shit, and all the middle-aged staff have no comprehension of how it actually feels. I met like one nice counsellor, but that was it. And I just told her what she wanted to hear, anyway. I know all my own problems, no else has to point them out for me. And they don’t deal well with bipolar patients and stuff. I’m not myself, but I had a friend who was, and he would flip out a lot at what the nurses did. He didn’t like seeing unfairness towards any of the other patients, but the nurses didn’t even take the differing personalities into account and treated everyone much the same. People *should* be understanding to work in that kind of environment. It’s very upsetting when they’re not.
I was involuntarily detained at a psychiatric hospital last December. It was the most degrading, humiliating experience I have ever had. In the emergency room they had me stripped down to my underwear and made to wait in this disgusting, windowless room with sticky floors while they processed my information and booked me in. I had to wait for more than 3 hours. There was nothing to do (they took my phone along with my clothes) and the only person that talked to me was a security guard that had to surveillance me. Then I got sent by ambulance to the actual hospital. They had to keep me for at least 3 days before I could file for release. The people there were interesting, thankfully I didn’t get a crazy person as a roommate. The experience though was awful. The staff were rude assholes that harassed everyone and belittled their problems during group therapy. The food was okay though at my hospital, but eating turkey with a spoon is hard. If we didn’t shower we lost privileges (i.e using the phone [they took away my cell because it could connect to the internet]) They let us out in this courtyard a few times for patients to have a smoke break. Even the staff there told us that the only way to get out of there was to just fake it. Before my last day some girl flipped out and started screaming, we were supposed to go back to our rooms while they restrained her and put her in the ‘quiet room’ (which is exactly like the crazy rooms in movies, rubbery/padded walls, only a cot. There were windows though) It was terrifying. Just the idea of going back there makes me sick. Yeah, don’t go to a hospital, they suck. If anything they’ll exacerbate your depression through degradation and confinement. It could have been worse for me I guess.
Wow. That sounds like absolute hell. At least you met some good people there though. Sometimes I think the people who work in mental institutions should be locked up as well. I think it’s probably a pretty tough environment to work in, though, in their defense. I sure as hell couldn’t do it. But I don’t think just anybody can, I think it takes a special person to show genuine empathy for the mentally ill. Usually those who have recovered from depression are that special blend, I’d say. Well I’m glad you’re out now SB and I hope you never have to go back. I always think of Girl, Interrupted when I think of mental hospitals. That and a mixture of the ones I visited my brother in. Totally different. But eerily similar at the same damn time…