This Happens When Mental Patients Freak Out! - AskReddit

warning this content may be upsetting or disturbing to some audiences he ended up with chunks of her hair and some scalp skin in his hands mental health workers what was the most dangerous moment you have lived through with a patient creepiest story at the end of the video this monster of a men easily 2 metres tall and 200 plus kilo with the emotional intelligence of a baby disabled he was told there were no activities for the day and couldn't cope with that and started smashing the place up police were called thank God he did not attack any staff or residents he looked like he could squeeze my brain out with two of his fingers my coworker had some resident facing with a knife and say they the voices in his head are telling me to stab you my coworker told him that was not true and to put the knife away which he did please note that people with a schizophrenic disorder are way more likely to be the victim of violence than the perpetrator in this case there was no violence my dad was a social worker for a very long time in SF in the 70s and as the story has been related to me by him by my half-brothers mom his wife at the time my half-brother and my dad's best friend he got a call saying one of his cases was having a break and had locked herself in a hotel room so my dad finds the room can't get in goes to the room directly above it climbs out of their balcony and lowers himself onto his cases balcony 9 stories up 9 he then gets inside just as she attempts to end herself with a knife and starts coming at him with it he gets the knife to know what he did with it bear hugs her and carries her into the elevator and then out onto the street where an ambulance was waiting the police finally showed up about five minutes after the whole thing ended he came home covered in blood I've been a subject of erotomania in my patient with psychosis erotomania is listed in the dsm-5 as a subtype of a delusional disorder it is a relatively uncommon paranoid condition that is characterized by an individual's delusions of another person being infatuated with them the object of the delusion is typically unattainable due to high social or financial status marriage or disinterest the object of obsession may also be imaginary deceased or someone the patient has never met delusions of reference are common as the errata maniac individual often perceives that they are being sent messages from the secret admirer through innocuous events such as seeing license plates from specific states apparently I look like his ex-wife who he tried to strangle he was staring at me completely fixated during the admission interview which is not uncommon I started to be the only person who could convince him to take his medication to escalate aggressive episodes etc then all the love letters started to be slipped under the door to the nurse's station he was moved to the next ward and required restrained and seclusion because he choked the nurse to try and steal his keys to get back to my ward last I heard he was offering money to other patients who would be discharged soon to hang around the carpark between 6 to 7 p.m. to figure out which car I Drive I worked in an emergency department a psychiatrist was seeing a patient in her office when the patient snapped and started stabbing the hell out of her an off-duty cop in the waiting room heard her screaming ran into the office and shot the patient they both arrived in the ED at the same time she lived barely and he died from a GSW to the head that was a bad bad day i-22 female was an intern in the internal medicine area I entered a triple room one room three patients and greet the first patient about 55 male who had just arrived from ER to recover from a heart attack without any notice he got up and started to beat the hell out of me ripping his for lines and monitor in the process I tried to defend me in the family members from the other beds and nurses came to help me and submit him with the help of a dose of diazepam turns out he had had a massive stroke a year which damaged his frontal lobe and cortex leaving him extremely aggressive that's also why he didn't had any family with him another time also as an intern in a public hospital from one of the most dangerous Mexican cities in 2012 just where the drug war was at its height a senior lady came for a breast tumor but upon seeing it we decided it was far too advanced for any surgery or treatment palliative care was all we can do for her her son while carrying a gun prohibited by law and only carried by Mafia threatened the oncologist and me that he'll come to us if anything happened to her mama I finished my term in that hospital a few weeks later and vow never to return these another motives I did family therapy I had a parent who lived in a remote area and sessions usually ended in the early evening they had some pretty significant mental health issues and had identified me as the primary cause of a lot of their current stressors communicating with child welfare services when there was a risk of harm one evening they were pretty agitated and started telling me how much they hated me and to prove it they described the very specific dream they'd had the night before of decapitating me and throwing my body parts into the local river I immediately left of course it was winter and icy and dark and they screamed at me from their front porch that I couldn't abandon them while I drove off honestly I really believed in the home and community therapeutic model but one of the main reasons why I left is that it felt inherently unsafe I worked with women with abusive husbands who absolutely knew I was helping them plan to leave parents who knew they were going to lose their children based on the work we did in what I reported you get a lot of work done sitting at someone's kitchen table but the trade-off the safety and security of working in public space when I was working at a care facility as a nurse ate a giant man came in with alcohol-induced dementia these patients are always high risk for being extremely aggressive and violent he had plenty of issues the first day he came attempting to run away harassing the women trying to start fights with the men the average age of people I cared for was mid 70 but this man was in his late 50s so we had to keep a close eye on him as the strong woman of the team I was always the one called to help manage him in case he got violent after about a week he decided he has had enough of me impeding on his life in such a way and decided to go for me so there I was a 23 year old girl 5 feet 10 inches at 145 ebbs trying to keep a 6 feet 5 inches 258 muscular man from strangling me with a belt and the only support I had was at five feet tall scared girl she was tugging on his shirt the best she could in an attempt to pull him off of me all while a bunch of elderly people stood around us screaming must have been quite a sight fortunately I was able to get out of the hole he had on me and some other men who worked in the facility were able to keep him from harming others until he calmed down the next day he was transferred to a better equipped facility but goodness that was a rough week I worked with people with schizophrenia one patient went missing for about 24 hours and missed to mid times when he finally returned he was super coked up he was escalated and high and I knew what it was but only because I knew my patients so well I had to call the police for transport and they didn't believe me before they arrived he cornered me I always kept an exit close so this was unusual but he walked towards me so fast I backed into a walk he came real close with his eyes so wide open and started saying he could strangle me before anyone would know I was in trouble then he just snapped out of it I ended up having to flirt with one of the cops so he would listen to me I didn't hold it against the patient and I made all the right moves including staying calm but as soon as it was all over I had an adrenaline crash I'm awesome at crisis though and that solidified it for me oh boy the stories are endless the story that sticks out the most right now is new therapist still in graduate school / and training I was working at an inpatient facility unit my job was to basically interview patients upon arrival keep in mind most patients do not want to be there and are there against their will I'm the first face they see I was working overnights where I am the only staff in the entire wing until patients are ready to move to the unit so one night I have a list of who is coming in from the hospital I meet with one person mind you I don't remember much about this person every door you walk through Lux with a code behind you I go into the room with this patient we talk I give them paperwork or whatever for some reason I completely blank on the code to get out absolutely cannot remember it trying to keep my cool I tell them I'm going to sit with them for a little while until whatever reason I made up to seemed fitting the more anxious I am the further I blank I try numerous codes patient knows what's up but is cool enough about it despite my embarrassment eventually I figure it out next client on the list repeated sexual offender antisocial diagnosis previously known as sociopath real rough around the edges antagonistic individual I could think as Wow if that had happened one person later I would have been in a really bad spot not long after I switched to day shifts where we had two employees working the interviews and staff all around I've worked in both male and female prisons one comes to mind where I twenty-four female was meeting with an inmate in his 40s he was double my size at least for reference he looked a similar size to Michael Clarke Duncan he had several issues and we had been meeting so I could provide psych testing he has developmentally delayed and because of his size when he got mad he could pick up and throw a whole metal trash bin he told me he goes into rage blackouts and didn't want to hurt me if he ever got mad he told me he likes roses and fake ones work - I bought some at a store and kept them on me sure enough one day another staff member kept coming in the office to interrupt us eventually asked us to terminate the session early I saw him boiling up about to blow he stood up and clenched his fists I handed him the flowers and he sat back down sort of petting them vil he calmed down I've been working with inmates for years been in between inmates fighting been around pepper spray severe self-harm threats those moments where you realize the person across from you is a psychopath who truly wants to hurt you but I never felt like something really bad was going to happen to me or someone else then if I hadn't have listened to him and had those flowers my clinical psychology professor in college told us a story about a terrifying incident that happened to her once she said she used to wear her hair long like down to her waist she was working at a psychiatric facility and during an interaction with a patient the patient started having hallucinations and in his mind her long hair was actually vicious snakes and in a fit he reached over and started violently yanking on her hair he pulled so hard she said he ended up with chunks of her hair and some scalp skin in his hands she said a short pixie haircut since this happened to a mentor of mine he was working in a community clinic in another city he was getting ready to head out for the day when the secretary pulled him aside asking him to do an emergency intake for a client who came in claiming to be in crisis mentor agrees and heads to the waiting room to call the guy back mentor said as soon as he opened the door to the waiting room he had a weird feeling he brought the guy back to his office and made the decision to sit behind his desk for the intake something he never does mentor asked the client what brought him in the client screams I am Saint Francis of Assisi and I am destined to die he rips open his shirt to reveal cuts all over his chest then pulls out a knife and says and you are destined to die - I honestly don't know how my mentor thought of this but he immediately slammed his hands on the desk and screamed saint francis of assisi holy crap what an honor this caught the attention of the secretary who cracked open the door saw the knife and called the cops I guess my mentor spooked the guy because he took off down the hall and out a back door the cops had a manhunt on their hands for several hours and eventually found him never recovered the knife the lesson my mentor wanted me to take from this event never be afraid to be crazier than your clients my mother-in-law was a family doctor one night I went to her practice to drive her home and was sitting in the waiting area the place is emptying out and I'm the only one left the receptionist goes downstairs to get a coffee cause the last patient is with the duck and she just has to do paperwork when they come out so I'm all alone when this Haggard looking guy wheels in in a wheelchair he wheels over beside me he's coughing and sounds like it looks like death anyways last patient walks out before the receptionist is back a few minutes later out comes my mother-in-law and sees this guy she says immediately mr. X please leave he starts on some crazy mumbling ramble about how he's in so much pain and he can't even walk anymore and a bunch of other stuff but I remember explicitly the I cannot walk anymore statement so of course she says something like if you do not leave I'm going to have to call the police and the guy jumps out of the chair can't walk my butt and runs at her now it wasn't super fast by my standards at least at the time I was like a 25 year old in decent shape then but he was going to mess her up by what I could tell thankfully I was able to get up and sort of semi tackle him against a wall before he got to her but he was strong I couldn't actually believe what I was seeing he said he couldn't walk in now could wrestle it was a bloody miracle so anyways doctor mother-in-law locked herself in the reception office that's glassed-in apparently this kind of thing happens more than just once which is scary anyhow she does that and I let the guy go and he didn't seem like he was gonna mess with me but I think in retrospect I probably should have kept him tackled or whatever in case he had a knife but I thought I was invincible cause I was young so I just stand and watch as he swears at her for a while through the glass and starts banging on it and it was as if I wasn't there I thought he might come at me or try to hit me but no he was just boxing the glass in front of him the one funny part was the secretary opened the door to come in and saw the guy and spilled her coffee and ran like the devil away the look on her face was priceless but lunatic man was oblivious maybe like five minutes later a couple of cops did show up and weirdly the guy kinda calm down when they did they cuffed him and took him away and then we did reports an hour later I was able to finally drive her home but she said the guy just wanted drugs and she saw that a lot I still thought it was crazy he couldn't walk used to work in 9-1-1 had a frequent flyer who we affectionately called gravel-pit jim jim was crazy as hell in a felon and lived out of his car at an old gravel pit hence the name I can't remember what his deal was but he checked all the behavioral disorder boxes that started with schizo a part-time drug addict he called pretty reliably with the inside scoop on the local dealers literally every call I took from the sky stared so I got this intelligence which would lead to him tattling on his dope man this was actually pretty useful and our units learned a lot from his leads Jim and I got to be somewhat familiar he'd call the suicide hotline who would aggravate him or simply hang up and then he'd contact us in a rage we talked enough that he decided he liked me and he typically called around 11:00 or midnight almost on a schedule I can't say I was ever personal with a guy he'd talk and I listened but we'd go around for a while and then we'd move on with our nights I had treated him human if nothing else if he called and got anybody different he'd ask for me and then dutifully wait while I cleared up whatever crisis and got to him not friendly but cordial he and I did this for around year then one night he drove off a bridge with me on the phone for whatever reason he decided to come into our jurisdiction a large bridge led into it and he aimed for the guardrail don't know why he didn't say anything different or special from what I can remember he just checked out I always kinda had the suspicion he was coming to see me maybe it was for the best that way probably he realized that he wasn't the first guy who died on my line or even the most graphic but he was definitely the one I knew the best retired NYC paramedic I was taking a psych patient from a smaller ER that lacked a separate behavioral holding area to another hospital with proper psychiatric facilities the lady was very common had been medicated well prior to our arrival I spoke to her and explained that she would be treated with the same level of respect that she treated everyone else within that I would protect her from others as she would only have to deal with me during the transport we patted her down then I had to wait for paperwork and the nurse who was doing the form made an error so things had to be retyped and finally we were clear to go we loaded her in our bus got the air conditioning on and I began to talk to her that I had to take a set of vital signs when she reached out of her pajamas and stabbed me with half a pair of scissors in the gut she tried for my heart but the blade slipped on the Kevlar vest carrier I wore until vest that could stop most of the fashionable handgun rounds of the day like 9 millimeters and 0.38 special and could take some slashes with edged weapons but not direct stabs with thin blades like ice picks or screwdrivers but a razor knife wouldn't cut it I could smell my own bowel gases and I saw some blood on my shirt as we used to wear white I struck her with the closed fist several times and once with the oxygen tank I was moving when she went for me she was completely unconscious I actually thought I killed her as her eyes just rolled in her head doing what's called doll's eye reflexes it usually means brain damage my partner turned the bus around and I went to the floor and shoved my hand in the bag to get a trauma dressing to stop the blood feces and bile that was now running down my pant leg I gave myself an injection of painkiller because I didn't want to blackout from pain I was trying to set up a high V when we jerked to a stop and my partner and some of the other guys grabbed me out she had pulled the scissors out so I kept trying to say a weapon but the guys said the words weren't coming out I went right through to the trauma Bay and I woke up a few days later she was very sick and brutally broken as a young girl the psyche problems were just icing on the cake I didn't want to hurt her but I did I have no ill feelings to her I don't know anything about her anymore this occurred in the 80s the trauma surgeons repaired and resected to remove infection of gallbladder and slice of pancreas part of liver and 18 inches of bowel were removed and repaired scissors went right to left and one point hit my sacrum at pelvic girdle thanks for listening to radio TTS hit the subscribe button and activate the notification bell for more intense videos click the right box for the mental health playlist kudos to all mental health workers your job as though let us know in the comments what you think about these stories [Music]

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Length: 18min 34sec (1114 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 06 2020