Mental health.
I've recently been having a few batshit episodes (now under control) and reverted back to the teenage habit I had of cutting myself. Not trying to kill myself, but cutting my arms up with a razor.

A few times leading up to Xmas, my boyfriend and his daughter called the cops on me for a welfare check and I ended up being hospitalized "for my own safety". Fuck, I kept telling the cops I never tried to kill myself (the cuts were on the arms, not the wrists) but I was handcuffed and duly hurled into an ambulance and sent off to the hospital.

My last stay, the nurse was a complete bitch. Total fucking bitch. When I asked for some water, she grudgingly got it a while later. When the guy in the bed was puking his guts up, and me being severely emetophobic (fear of vomit), she refused to move me. In fact, she told me to "grow up" and asked me what kind of childish person tries to kill themself anyway. I duly got the supervisor on duty and told her that there was no way in hell was this nurse going to take care of me. The supervisor agreed.

The only saving grace about that hospital visit was the security guard (yeah, on a mental health evaluation you're constantly watched by security). He got cigs for me on his break, walked me out to smoke whenever I wanted, ate his lunch with me, all the while making me laugh.

Oh, and the reason for my batshitness was quite literally the depo birth control shot. It's mainly out of my system although I still have severe depression. Lucky I didn't end up in the hospital the other night after my boyfriends daughter told me I should just go kill myself. Stupid cunt.

Edit: This is in the US, each 24hr hold was $3,000 and I don't have insurance. Also, the ambulance fees were $700 each trip.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 19:55, 11 replies)

1. Handcuffs? Good Lord, that's barbaric.
2. Please don't fucking cut yourself you silly arse.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 21:15, closed)

Seriously.
Already mentally fragile, and then get handcuffed. Although to be fair it's so you don't hit anyone. In the ambulance they put soft restraints on.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 21:20, closed)

Were you lashing out?
If so, then that's fair enough.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 21:22, closed)

No, it's a precautionary measure

( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 21:27, closed)

Then it's brutal and unwarranted
and surely counterproductive. I think if I was freaking out, someone trying to cuff me would actually make me start lashing out. The last thing you'd need would be constriction.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 21:38, closed)

it's standard practice
as yet we haven't figured out a better way to deal with these things, than get police to transport people in mental distress.

I've heard stories of extremely distressed children/teenagers being transported in the back of police vans for hours, with psyc staff traveling separately. Don't completely understand why, but that's policy.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 17:47, closed)

Shit... love, you need to sort your head out and bastards treating you like that ain't gonna help.
Vote Obama, he makes it all good.
( rjmrjm, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 23:22, closed)

You also need to sort of insurance.
I remember you saying that when you cat was ill you were down thousands of $

Get some cover.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 14 Mar 2010, 15:56, closed)

If you did have insurance, they hospital woudl likely accept about half the total from the insurance company.
I had a pretty bad bicyle accident a few years ago and the bills from the hospital were over 20K. The insurance company paid a little less than 10K. Same thing the next year when I had my gallbladder out.

What a fucking racket.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 18:29, closed)

I refused to pay, and also have the knowledge that
medical bills do not affect your credit report. The only bill I paid was the one I put myself in for.

As far as the medical bills go, it shows up on your credit report as unpaid, but as long as your regular credit is fine, it's not going to affect it..I'm paying $25 a month to the hospital (I'm unemployed with no insurance, they have to accept what I can give).
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 8:07, closed)

Poor thing..
I had a birth control shots about 12 years ago. The first one was ok. The second one drove me mental. If I didn't want to kill others I wanted to kill myself. I try and avoid anything that fucks up my hormones anymore. I'm glad its out your system. It's something the doctors never really tell you might happen. Good luck.
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:53, closed)