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Bane_Of_Despair posted...

On top of everything else people in here already said, also super cool that they give you the privilege to pay that amount of money for services that left a hole inside of messed up feelings. All aspects of healthcare whether physical or mental are really fucked for so many people, it sucks that it happens to so many. Glad you're still here with us though, you're a great poster of topics and general posts! Not that if you weren't I would think the opposite, just an added bonus.

Part of what enrages me is that all the stuff about financial aid and medical assistance, etc. is all stuff I had to find out on my own afterward. Most hospitals have systems in place that are supposed to help people in need but it's like the hospital staff actively want to prevent you from finding out about it. As if being found on the side of the bridge, I had to sit in that room obsessing over how much this was going to hurt me financially. When I brought up that concern to the nurses, they completely disregarded my pleas, only for me to later hear the head nurse mocking me (either to another staff member or on the phone) about how I was complaining about not being able to afford being held there.

SeabassDebeste posted...

that is incredibly dehumanizing and i'm enraged. the details you put in like being allowed outside but not being allowed shoes (or change of clothes?!) really make my blood boil.

so the system is just completely broken. Like, you're ALLOWED to have a change of clothes, but only if you have them. Like, if I had been brought in with a change of clothes on my person, or with "safe" shoes like slippers or flip flops, I could've kept them. But I didn't, because why the fuck would I? Beyond that, you can only have clothes available in the "community clothes." That's what I was told. But patients don't have access to the community clothes, only the nurses do. I spent 2 days asking repeatedly to get some clothes to change into, only to being told things like "yeah we'll look into it" and then ignored. It was only when I told my case worker about it that she took me directly to the community clothes herself, only to find the shelves mostly barren. And when I say mostly barren, I mean there was maybe like 10 clothing items tops in the men's shelf and not a single thing that would come come close to fitting me. She went out herself to one of the other departments immediately, finding me a sweatshirt and a fresh pair of jeans (which had some holes and were a little snug but were a huge improvement over the baggy shorts I'd been wearing.

That's the thing with the "commmunity clothes." The hospital doesn't provide any. Like, NONE. They exist solely of what the nursing staff donates, and the nursing staff for the most part doesn't donate (especially not stuff for men, given that most staff are women). (Same goes with books, which is why the mostly-empty book shelves mostly consist of religious books and Danielle Steel. I did manage to find Moneyball in there, which I read most of during the week). And no visitors are allowed, so if you don't have extra clothes (which someone like me, who was brought there involuntarily definitely wouldn't) you're mostly just fucked. ESPECIALLY with underwear. The pair you came in with is the pair you wear until you leave. I was able to wash my clothes once after getting the spare sweatshirt and pants and was told my staff to just "go commando" if I actually wanted to wash my underwear.

There's lots of little stuff you don't think about until you're presented with it. Like there being no private bathrooms. Each room has a bathroom in it but 1. you share a room 2. you can't close your door 3. there is only a curtain separating the bathroom from the rest of the bedroom and 4. my room was literally right next to the nurse's station so everything can be heard in perfect clarity.

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