-What has been one of your worst experiences with a mental health proffesional?
For me the one that comes to mind (out of two or 3)
Is actually from this year I reported that i was psychotic and required some advice or support to the referral team. I went there for an hour assessment.
I started off by explaining about feeling I am being watched and crying.
Etc.
And then i started laughing sporadically (nervous laughter from the hallucinations plus them doing bizarre stuff) but i was scared to explain what was happening at that moment
The mental health assessor interpreted that as me not taking the assessment seriously instead of asking me are you ok, what is making u laugh she kind of looked annoyed and mentioned something about cutting the assessment time…
My therapist ghosted me after seeing her for three years. She always missed a lot of appointments anyway but then she missed about 4 in a row, came back for a couple and then just stopped calling for good. No warning no explanation.
But a doctor years back straight up told me I shouldn’t have kids because of my mental illness.
My worst experience with a mental health professional… I told my therapist at the time a traumatic experience that I never told anyone before and she said to me “that wasn’t traumatic”
In a psych unit as a teen I was forced to get a body cavity search done and also told to dance naked for the guards. It was humiliating. I felt so helpless and hopeless. So alone in the world. I wasn’t allowed any contact with the outside word - not even my family/mom etc. no one. It was awful.
I have quite a few nightmare stories about my experiences in psych wards but that was my first experience so it was the worst.
Not for a long time. They said we had to earn privileges like that. I didn’t even have access to my clothes. A guard had to get my clothes for me. And a guard stayed in my room while I “slept” at night. Obviously I didn’t get much sleep
A psychologist said have an autism test and I will know how to treat you. It said I had autism and she basically cut me off because she is not a specialist in that area
When I was in hospital a nurse advised me to pay off my student loan so I could go full time benefits. He told me I would never be able to live a normal life again.
I spat pills out at the back of a doctors head as he walked away. There were police on the ward and they tried to overpower me. I rugby tackled them and they pinned me down and forced an injection