Nurses At Psych Wards, What Did A Patient Do That Left You Speechless? (r/AskReddit)

nurses of psych wards what did a patient do that left you speechless my aunt was a pharmacist in a psych hospital in Iraq she told me that a family brought their son in he was previously detained and tortured by Sodom's security the young man was admitted as a sever case he then started to hold imaginary trials and sentence people to death by hanging one day they did find another patient hanged dead and the young man was standing next to him shouting justice was served Jesus that is Fric tup this was actually in a State Hospital that is part of the prison system for mentally ill offenders patient asked for Vaseline which is fine they can have Vaseline whatever but this patient was given a whole tub so of course he stripped completely naked covered himself in Vaseline and ran it was a secure unit and he didn't escape but we couldn't get him back into his cell all shift because he was too freakin slippery no more tubs this might not fit perfect but I love this story how about in an inpatient addiction clinic the first one that comes to mind was something I witness between a patient and another floor tech we had a man who was in serious detox drug if choice was M he was throwing a huge tantrum not uncommon in DTS people will do just about anything to get a fix we weren't a locked facility so it wasn't like he was stuck there he genuinely wanted help that's why he stuck around and we were there to listen and help him through the shakes hallucinations and other symptoms he was slamming his fists on the desk at this point and he had started just yelling I just want some frickin ice slang for Kristal em well the tech with me was inexperienced although much older than me and while I talked to him and tried to calm him down she went back to our staff kitchen and got in a glass of ice like frozen water she brought it out to him and put it in his hand like problem solved and the guys just froze with confusion staring at it the patient and I both realized at the same time she thought he wanted ice and we just started at each other and started laughing he was in for a rough couple of days but I've never seen someone jump from psychotic episode - giggling so fast I honestly would have done the same thing as the nurse I was a CNA for about four years and the saddest ever was my client resident constantly thought I was her daughter but she went to Harvard and was an extremely brilliant lady in her time she was nonverbal but every time I walked into her room she would exclaim Elizabeth you came I love this lady so much she would only eat when I fed her she was extremely combative with everyone but me I ended up quitting my job there but visited her every single day to the point that her family kind of accepted me as their family I finally found out that Elizabeth took her own life at 21 and the fact that she thought I was her gave her extreme joy I never corrected her and I like to think I gave her peace when she passed holding my hand she was an amazing lady and I miss her to this day prison guard here guy cut his scrotum open to let people now he was serious don't know about what guy to cut off a bat cheek or a big part of and threw it at me as I tried to stop him guy 3 punched a wall three times really hard bloody knuckles and told me he punched the devil cos he was telling him to stab me but I am cool so he told the devil to freak off guy for pretended to drowned himself in a toilet basically splashed pee on his face and rolled around crying guy 5 had flicked a window air vent and was complying and yet confused when I asked him to stop those were the days guy 3 just a homie if we're being honest when I was in nursing school I had a clinical in the state-funded sick war downtown I was assigned to sit with this one girl to monitor her behavior she spent about 30 minutes doing nothing but eating pudding cups with a plastic spoon she ate like six of them in half an hour then out of nowhere she very calmly licked her spoon completely clean and pulled her shirt sleeve up before shoving the entire spoon into an incision in her arm near her bicep then very calmly said ops the nurses that work there didn't believe me they kept saying I was making it up and that I couldn't have seen what I saw only later on like four hours later it was a 12-hour clinical the orderly noticed the girl had some blood on her shirt he took her into her room to change her clothes and noticed that an incision on her arm had to heston had been bleeding he then eventually agreed to send her to the hospital for testing the x-ray showed the entire spoon sucked into the fat of her arm through an incision where they'd removed a birth control implant in the week before apparently the girl had slowly been picking at the sutures and opening at bit by bit until it was deep enough to fit an entire plastic spoon the girl admitted that the OPP's was because it had gotten sucked in and couldn't be pulled out not because she stuck a spoon in her arm totally bizarre we had an older black lady who would walk up and down the ward constantly mumbling it never stopped I think she would get something like Thorazine to calm her down but she would fight it and her eyes would be all droopy and she'd slow down but she kept going nobody understood a word she said and she was there for at least over six months she was punched out once by outpatient while he was on the phone because she kept walking by ranting he just lost it anyway I'm up there doing a patrol one day I was security and she's ranting and walking up and down the ward as usual and they call her to come get a meal she sits down and opens her tray and stops ranting and states clear as day I didn't know diabetic tray B every last person turned to her and all of our mouths were wide open that was the only thing she ever said clearly years ago I was a student nurse doing my psych rotation in a Catholic facility the nuns still wore habits and the building was like something out of the Dark Ages I'll skip talking about the line of patients waiting to undergo act treatment in the basement and instead tell you about Maggie she was a tragic case she had been on lithium for years and it really kept her psychotic episodes in check until reached toxic levels and could no longer take it one hot summer afternoon we heard this banshee screaming coming from Maggie's room we rushed in there to see what was going on entering the room we are greeted by Athena I will never forget this late 70s woman is standing on the window ledge naked as a jaybird screaming through the windows screams at the nuns in the courtyard you freaking penguins are going to burn in Herrick the poor sisters are scrambling to and fro trying to get away from the ranting mad woman's viscous verbal assault as we were trying desperately to pull her off the grating I knew then and there that I would never become a psych nurse I am a psych nurse and that story is so funny to me you definitely need a weird dark sense of humor to work in that specialty psych ward counselor here early in my career I had a teenage girl with suicidal ideations and severe depression the year before on Thanksgiving her dad pulled a gun from under the dinner table and blew his brains out in front of everyone I normally form a response pretty quickly even a WoW but when she told me I got quiet Leanback exhaled and had to gather my thoughts had a catatonic guy who could play the piano like a pro classic jazz ragtime but otherwise just sat in his chair and stared had a guy come in with pictures of families pasted on his feet because he wanted to be close to them that's actually wholesome we had a psych patient on our floor that wasn't really crazy crazy just really confused and unpleasant in general one night I was mixing his drink with some thickener and per usual he started yelling about me poisoning him I explained what it was in that we're all here to help him not hurt him and he responds with I'm just going to die his vitals were fine he was alert no red flags and like I said he was always pretty unpleasant so I didn't think much of it sure as crap he coded an hour later and we never got him back my man said peace out and frickin faded the commitment of the lad not a nurse pharmacist had one of our clozapine patients miss a monthly meeting to discuss their medication called around found out she was in the I cou having eating two of her own fingers then visited to her mother for coffee still bleeding had a friend tell me of another patient made a cut in his signed reopened it regularly until the whole thing was a scar tissue cabin by some miracle avoiding infection started using his meat pocket to hold pens and coins and anything he could collect in his war nobody knew until a paperclip pierced the side and he finally wound up with an infection that took him to my ku where they found his stash meat pocket Jesus dude not in US but have had several stays on psychiatric wards for bitola to be fair on most occasions I didn't enter the wards in the most rational and stable state myself but what has tended to happen is that even when they bring you back down to earth you can end up staying for an extra month or two before they let you go so I have spent some time on psychiatric wards completely sane if not maybe firing on all cylinders anyway I have seen a few shocking things like the guy cutting open his wrists with broken glass and bleeding out pretty severely but tbh you quickly become desensitized and what tended to leave me speechless was the abruptness of certain behaviour and its total in crow Gramps with facial expressions etc for example sitting watching a TV when a 5-foot tall 7 stone woman calmly walks over suddenly lifts the TV up and throws it into the wall with great force smashing it to bits and then calmly sits back down in an armchair declaring that the TV was ruining her painting she wasn't painting by making the armchair give her an orgasm she never even raised her voice she then immediately asked me as if it was somehow related if I liked Lisa Stansfield not me but someone I knew was an award with a girl who wanted to be a vampire and drank blood from her own tampons it's as atrocious as it sounds she was around 16 and schizophrenic when I was a student doing a placement in a maximum-security unit a serial rapist was getting meds made a silly joke the nurse said oh stop that his response was I've heard that before a nurse told me one of her patients killed himself on the unit while on one one suicide watch a patient and stuff we're at arm's length and patients suddenly charged the wall smashing his head as hard as he could breaking his neck in the process I've cut two patients down myself yet that'll mess you up I'm not in US but was a patient once giant dude got upset one do change the channel from a football game he was watching and smashed his skull with his fists not fully but enough that when they brought him back a few days later he started seizing and had to be removed the game didn't see him again also there was one lady who was straight out of the movies walking around preaching the end of days loudly and sweating like crazy I was a patient around the jock dude as well the guy had an outburst but afterwards ended up being drugged to the point of needing the walls to help him walk and a towel to wipe his drool that scared me more than the junk dude himself it feel like a movie where once you go in they never let you out when I was a teenager in a poorly started not well funded mental hospital there was a male psyche nurse who traded contraband like drugs or cigarettes to teenage girls in exchange for physical favors this is not at all uncommon an impatient adolescent treatment not me it's my dad used to work in Aero Dale and J Ward Australian insane asylum and prison for the criminally insane respectively in the 70s he used to talk about sunny days in jail would where they'd bring out all the inmates during a sunny day and they'd promptly line up and start jacking off in Aero Dale they'd deal with the jacking off problem by strapping you into cotton mittens but a lot of the inmates would chew a hole through them just to get a finger out to jack off with his worst story was about a psychotic woman in Iredale she had self-inflicted scars all over her face from scratching herself self-imposed bite marks all over her body from trying to eat herself and she had the nasty habit of chewing the inside of her mouth and spitting blood at your eyes and mouth hoping you'd catch one of the myriad of diseases she carried I've worked with so many people who spit blood in your face when they'll pee at first I was pretty impressed with the clever thinking but now I just get annoyed that they're staining my clothes I'm an RN in Boston in a psych hospital and I've seen some crap one of the things I'll never ever forget was we had this manic guy thst had been transferred from another unit cause he kept getting in fights over there and all the other patients were trying to attack him I was still working nights back then and at about 3 a.m. he came up to me and said his tooth hurt and he needed to see a dentist right away I said I don't have a dentist for him to see but when the doctor comes in the morning we can't take a look to gave him some Tylenol and sent him back to bed about five minutes later he came out saying it really hurt and he needed to see a dentist to call his tooth again I told him there's no dentist but maybe I can get some more pain meds in the middle of me explaining this to him he sticks his hand in his mouth and rips his motor out of his head and handed it to me blood starts pouring out of his mouth but he did even to seem to notice after I clean him up and get the bleeding to stop and call the doctor to get him some ativan he goes make sure you give me that tooth back when I leave that's my tooth don't try and steal it a freakin world crap I'm a tech at a psych hospital but I start nursing school in August so I hope this counts we had a very tall heavyset man who swung at a nurse and a fellow Tech when they asked him to not stand make it in the door and flash the whole unit so we put him in a hold and escorted him to the seclusion room from there he tried to strangle himself with his underwear he had them on his head like a bandana so we opened the door and took those away then he peed all over the floor did push-ups and every time he came down he would slurp it up eventually he got bored of that and began writing on the wall in his pee and then masturbated onto the door and said it would be better if he could Frick my dead corpse eventually his I'm b-52 kicked in and he contacted for safety good behavior sir we opened the door again and he bit me on the hand and drew blood from there I got permission to not be involved in the code and appear swapped me out I'm assaulted on a weekly basis and we aren't even on acute care facility I'm very excited to go PRN in August 15 dollars and 38 cents HR is not worth it not in us but I used to be a security guard in a hospital and we had a patient who self-harmed and cut a hole into themselves around their belly button and then stuck a bunch of paper clips and buttons and things like that into it this reminds me of a sequence in Alfred's Playhouse that behavior is one of the most severe indicators of abuse imaginable I encourage those affected by childhood abuse comparable events to look into Pete Walker's resources on complex PTSD don't do what I didn't take a bunch of mushrooms long I watched a guy try to remove rats from his rectum stated that his ex-girlfriend summoned them there he ended up tearing his rectal walls to shreds pharmacists here had a patient getting discharged from the OU when they found out two police officers were waiting outside to take them in on an outstanding warrant a patient grabbed the doctors coffee mug smashed it on a desk and then tried to slit their own throat with the broken mug caused lacerations needing stitches but luckily nothing serious we are still arresting you not me but a friend is a behavioral consultant for a psyche ward and once told me a story about a patient that casually approached another patient and proceeded to pin him against the wall and bite his eyelid off was interviewing a guy in psych ward and he was complaining about how he couldn't have any whiteout a liquid eraser four typewriters because oh he was on suicide watch claimed it was stupid but casue if he wanted to kill himself as he pointed out he could use the drawstring from the blind to hang himself or he could use his pencil to stab himself use a typewriter metal bar to off himself I agreed it was silly to hold back the small bottle of liquid white out when I relayed the convo to my instructor about how silly it seemed you to him having several other ways she replied that he proved to me that he had been considering ways to kill himself and that's why he was able to come up with so many so quickly he never did get his white out one of our patients escaped the warden managed to hitchhike all the way to Sydney about 900 km my grandmother works in a nursing home years back I remember driving with her the next town over and seeing another patients walking down the streets in hospital gown that escaped it is amazing how much energy a 80 year old dementia patient has we would put the patient in the car and drive him back to the nursing home my sister was actually sectioned earlier this year for her eating disorder she shouldn't have been but that's a story for another time and she was right next to the PICU psychiatric intensive care unit one of the nights she heard multiple screams coming specifically from that ward one of the patients had been a chunk out of a nurses leg as they were trying to detain them they then started eating said chuck it's crazy to think these types of things happen I saw a girl bite one of the techs tear out a truck then swallow yet that will stick with you as well 60 something old woman would come out of a room every so often at night topless and holding out her saggy breasts saying and broken English my nipples nipples my nipples please for the children 40-something woman would sneak the shower and that out of the bathroom to put under her bed because she was God and we were stealing her power by electrocuting a glory hole every night the floor mat apparently stopped this from happening a severely schizophrenic woman used to tell me that my name was the worst fairy tale lie that she ever wrote in the two Bibles for her daddy when she was angry with me she would yell at me and say get out of here fairy tale book I wish I never wrote you but that same woman attacked some nursing students who were attempting to use tissues over la la cops to make ghost props for Halloween she didn't seem to like this and while trying to hit them was yelling hideous you can't make ghosts out of lollipops again same woman but different group of Nursing students brought in several pizzas for an end-of-semester party the woman then walked up and down the tables looking at the pizzas then out of nowhere she started throwing the pizza and yelling what's this supposed to be some kind of pizza tastes you Deus you can't make ghosts out of lollipops this struck me as be the most lucid same thing she said equals P we had a Giro site floor crazy old people one night while passing through a little old lady pops her head out her doorway and said to me I could sure use the company of a good-looking young man tonight sorry I'm not that good-looking quick as snot on a doorknob she said that's okay I can't see too well I didn't join her but her charisma was on point getting hit on by 80 year olds in the geriatric psych ward whose brains have forgotten what age there is something they never prepare you for some are pretty persistent not just dirty old men dirty old ladies 2-5 visited a prison for a warden job and went to see the constant surveillance guys for their own safety et Cie there was a fella there who had used a razor to slice his stomach open and started pulling chunks of himself out for fun he also started using the hole which wouldn't heal as a hiding place a towel was found stuffed in there which his body had started fusing to apparently he was quite nice but the whole thing wasn't for me and I didn't go ahead with applying not a nurse but I was a patient in a psych ward the ward was sectioned into two sides based on case severity I was on the less severe side one night an incredibly tall somewhat must could a man escaped his room on the severe side got through a door that was supposed to be locked got into the less severe side and into my room I woke up sat up and saw him standing in my doorway he asked in a shaky voice if I was alright I hesitantly said yes to which he responded by getting a look of terrified horror and screamed I knew it you can see them too don't let them get you before he was dragged away screaming by security guess your protagonist now not in US but I had a job that led me to a behavioral health unit of a nursing home that's what they call psyche wards now I believe so Mel Deli lady scoot stuck on to the back of a couch almost standing on it think of an old time cartoon lady seeing a mouse pointing at me yelling that's him that's the one I had that weird panic of being accused knowing I was innocent but wondering if I'd be in trouble anyway despite this being my first time there and me having zero patient interaction other than potential kapooya stuff like this then she cries he beats me my legs Frick it was so sad then she said she'd give me a million dollars not to ever talk to her again I said deal and kept moving cool under pressure that's me gots to get paid not me but when my sister was in a psych ward for an eating disorder a girl tried to strangle someone with a bra last year my other sister was in there because she was suicidal and a kid tore a water fountain off the wall another kid screamed for his shoes and personally my favorite was a kid whose mother told him he was going on a vacation but instead admitted him into a psych ward then he screamed to one of the staff that be lied to any thank you all for the comments you've been leaving keep the conversation brewing if my mom told me we were going on vacation and then dropped me off at the psychiatric ward I'd probably say the same thing I love my mom but that's some flicked up crap right there we tasted a guy he took it took it like a champ then pulled out the Bob's handed them back to the officer and told him that wasn't very nice had a dude who liked to masturbate then lick it up off the floor another one liked to take a dump play with it then go around shaking hands with unsuspecting people a lady who put sandwiches up her bag one of my faves though was a guy who one time was walking down the hall paused shook his right leg a turd rolled out onto the floor then kept walking like nothing happened I worked in a supermarket and a big job II was found on the shop floor one day the leading theory was that someone shook it out of their trouser leg my ex is mom used to work at broad new hospital for years for those unaware broad nur is a very famous asylum for the criminally insane in the UK she said the strangest thing is how normal the patients were because of all the meds they were on they're like children eager to please she met Peter Sutcliffe aka the Yorkshire Ripper numerous times and Joss said he was nice to everyone although he was attacked a few times her scariest moment for sure though involved this huge fat black guy who'd killed animals and eventually a person by sitting on their chests whilst he'd try his best to watch their faces as they died anyway he was very nice and help [ __ ] to everyone and eventually my ex's mum let her guard down around him he came with her to get something and as they went into a room he closed the door behind him and just stood there my ex's mum pressed her panic button that's all staff kept with them and then used her training to try and keep him calm and stall for security but it was no luck as he attacked her luckily for her though there was part of her training at Broadmoor also included some self-defense techniques that even the most smallest woman could employ basically she used her finger knuckles to press into the sides of his ribs and he let go of her long enough for her to escape she did it to me once and I'll side with the crazy fat black guy on this it's incredibly painful my sister has been a psychiatric nurse for around 10 years or so and has told me all sorts of stories about her times she is physically assaulted on an almost daily basis has been threatened with everything you can imagine people have thrown smeared or ingested pretty much every bodily fluid available on the wards well she has just finished a degree retraining as a teacher because she no longer enjoys the profession well that's normal but it takes a part of you with that piece-by-piece hope she gets well in future life not a nurse but I worked in a group home for teams and one ended up in a psych ward she was a sweet 15 y/o girl who had been there for about three weeks plans for the future would be staying with a relative she liked in a week had friends and had no history of issues whatsoever aside from her mum kicking her out of the house for having a boyfriend which she was understandably upset about she went from sane to broken overnight it was about 1 a.m. when I found her awake during checks sitting on her bed and looking upset she had become convinced she was pregnant in spite of tests saying otherwise then the baby had been changed by chemicals she was terrified of the baby inside her and the chemicals everywhere changing everything we couldn't seem to get her to realize she wasn't pregnant couldn't be pregnant and she would go on round about chemicals but it's hard to exactly what she was talking about cleaners pollution medication which she wasn't on she talked about chemicals getting in things the way some people talk about the devil all strange but still just borderline alarming then the clock started talking to her and telling her what to do somewhat which involved burning herself and knocking her head against the wall this is when we called authorities she then basically became incoherent in a word salad way and was unresponsive to us even when we got between her and the wall she was thumping it was like we weren't there to her when she was hauled away about four hours after initial weird statements about how she was suddenly pregnant she was in a kind of manic but also oddly passive state again like we weren't there and was unable to walk she had to be carried out on a stretcher she was mentally somewhere else entirely it was terrifying watching her self collapse so quickly and completely going to go a different route here is all of the stories seemed to focus on the shocking and negative challenging behaviors I'm not a nurse but I'm a support worker we currently have a patient who when he was admitted was extremely aggressive not physically and impatient he was unable to wait for anything for longer than two seconds barely spoke to anybody unless it was on a needs basis and wouldn't couldn't do anything for himself fast forward six weeks and he has stopped me in my tracks multiple times the first time he said please when he asked for something the first time he agreed to make his breakfast himself the first time he asked how I was when he saw me and probably the most rewarding of all was when he smiled at me and said good morning not a nurse but used to be a tech at a psych facility it was my first job out of college I was left pretty speechless when a teenage girl patient reached over the desk grabbed hold of the phone and strangled me with the cord after several similar incidents the hospital switch to cordless my aunt is an OT who works with a lot of brain trauma patients and sadly some of these cases are worse than most psych unit cases one kid had a motorcycle accident of twenty and was in her ward for over year in that time he developed hallucinations of a horse who walked the halls and who was antagonistic toward everyone except him he was sort of gleeful about it too like there would be about to leave the room and he would just casually say the horse is right outside I wouldn't go out there right now if I were you he's gong to hurt you all with a smile on his face and a chuckle in his voice other times though he'd act as though he was scared of it too which given the circumstances was a lot more terrifying he would also sometimes smear crap around and blame it on the horse terrible terrible story rip out their tongue he was left speechless as well I presume I'm a patient at a mental health private hospital at the moment and one patient that was here brought everyone that had helped him on his journey to get better a rose on his last day and it was the nicest thing that has happened to me here I'm a PCT at a mental facility I have so many stories once we had to put a guy in seclusion and there is a small insect window to observe them through when in seclusion and they are on constant observation the man we put in seclusion was psychotic and targeting me he stripped naked violently masturbated towards me staring through the window then spreads his cheeks and presses his entire battle against the inset window it was impressive I have seen into the all-seeing eye had a patient once get a picture off the wall I don't know how they are bolted to a brick wall and run down the hallway screaming I'm a cat burglar I'm the Joker another patient abruptly stood up and gave chase screaming I'm Batman bee once had a patient crap in his sink because his bathroom door was locked someone was on there waiting unlock his door good since it wasn't immediate he proceeded to crap in his sink I was doing room checks and saw a pair of legs with pants at their ankles hanging off the edge of the sink I'll try to add more as I remember law I'm Batman B oh my god yes not a nurse but a former patient on many occasions who helped out since I am surprisingly stable even if very weird and uncanny at times and this one time a co patient apparently came in with so many fleas it's amazing turns out he didn't wash his hair for the last few months so besides being oily and heck it was also full of fleas when asked for why he didn't wash the hair he reasoned that he didn't want to drown the fleas I mean it is solid reasoning but kind of stupid because you don't wanna have fleas row hey at least he's compassionate you've been visited by the good sleep capybara upvote within the next five seconds and you will be blessed with cozy and restful sleeps like and subscribe you magnificent person [Music]

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Published: Mon Mar 09 2020