Posted by Chuckie on April 12, 2004, at 21:00:47
In reply to Re: Rah, GO CHUCKIE! : ) And a pox on that site!!! (nm), posted by spoc on April 11, 2004, at 21:50:49
My every Mental Health nightmare... my worse case scenario...
Went to the pre-arranged place, met with pre-arranged person, who took me to hospital, which receptionist said "but we don't have any beds."
Oh.
But wait! Just have a seat, don't go anywhere, we'll get someone to explore options.
OK.
Hour and a half later, this frazzled, stressed out lady comes and gets me. And then all the usual questions: Do you hear voices? Nope. Do you feel suicidal? Nope. Any inclination to hurt yourself or anyone else? Nope. Well then what are you doing here? Um, well see i have this problem with opium tea. What? Opium tea. Where you get that? I'm sorry but i don't want to tell you.
I don't know really where all the conversation wandered, but she obviously wanted a disposition before 5:00 and suddenly out of the blue she says "Well I'm calling security and having you taken to ____ Hospital. WHOA! What are these words? "Security?" "Have me taken?"
And then she wants my Medicare card and my driver's license and i said well, um, i'm not sure i want to talk to you anymore until we straighten out exactly how you're gonna 'help' me. And she says "Look, if you don't cooperate I'm going to have you committed."
So i said no, you can't do that because i haven't said anything at all to merit it, under law. And she says "well how long you been taking this Opium um, stuff? Because it's obviously made you extremely paranoid." IOW, being concerned about involuntary commitment and challenging her authority, therefore i'm "paranoid" and therefore i need to be committed. Hmm i said, no, frankly, it's people like you who make me paranoid and i don't need to be paranoid to spot a lame trick like that. Sorry, but you can't prove i'm paranoid enough to hurt anyone, either.
And more quarrelling ensued, mostly semantics in regard to the things i *did* say, and then she said "hey, I'm just here to help you. It's your choice." And i stood up real careful an quiet and said well if it's my choice i'd just as soon get out of here now. Thanks for your time.
I *really* didn't think she was gonna let it go, so i took back alleys outa there, and ended up by the canal trying to get my wife and my counselor on the cell phone. The wife, so i could find out if the cops were lurking, and my counselor so i could tell her the story in case i disappeared. Both of which worked out fine, and i'm home and presumably safe.
Rats.
But tomorrow i have appointment w/ some outpatient clinic, and i figure even if they can't help me it can't work out worse than today.
*sigh*
- Chuckie
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