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:loopy: I have been trying to keep up on what's going on...on this forum...It's almost a week now...since my sicko sister harassed my cousin which ended up with me being dragged over to the local ER....I haven't posted about the absolutely bizarre events of last weekend....Last Sat. AM at 4:02 I was on my way to bed [exhausted but happy I was feeling very sleepy=SLEEP finally] when my phone rang...thinking to myself of who would be calling me at that hour...turns out it was the dispatcher from my local police dept. ....she said that a family member from Willoughby [I have a cousin there from my ex's side of the family--they are my TRUE family and this cousin and I are very close--they were happy I got a divorce and the ex stays away--YAY!!] had called and was concerned that I might harm myself...I really had to pull my self together so I would be able to answer the usual questions even though I was exhausted...I told her basically I was okay and the farthest thing from my mind was suicide...she said she wanted to send 2 officers over to talk with me....I said no problem...it was 40 minutes before they got here...meanwhile my body was screaming for SLEEP...The cops got here and I let them in...they too asked the usual questions & I answered them while looking them straight in the eye...the one cop then asked me all the questions in the rapidfire way...I again looked him in the eye and said a rapid set of no's...they said I was fine and they'd go but might have to come back...I said I am going to sleep[I was not going to force my body to remain awake for anybody!!] and I locked the door...turned on my 2 breathing machines and fan and conked out....at two points I was aware that someone was at knocking on a door...once I growled out a LOUD scream..I AM SLEEPING..I CAN'T GET TO THE DOOR!!!....conked out...2nd time...DRUGGIES GO AWAY OR I'LL CALL THE COPS!!!....BOOM the heavy security chain broke by what I now know to be from a fireman....flashing lights loud talking I forced myself into some state of awareness..[SCARED SH**LESS] begging to be left alone..let me sleep...come on I need my sleep....then I got threatened that if I didn't come with them 2 BIG BURLY firemen would drag me out...I looked up and saw two GIANT hulks silhoutted in my hallway...[TALK ABOUT TRAUMA!!!!] I again had to pull myself together and grabbed 2 rabbits & comfort blanket and put on my robe over the dress I had thrown on before falling into deep sleep...[thankfully I hadn't climbed into to bed with just my undies on as I usually do when exhausted!]and went with them via cot in ambulence...heard they had been out there for over an hour....as I slumped on the cot and into the twilight zone....got to the ER [3 minutes from here] heard ER staff asking why I was there...seeing I was just sleepy not suicidal....heard the cops say it was because the NORD CENTER [our county mental health center] had insisted I be brought there...Those asses!!! They use their power very unethically...they are the ones who do all the assessments in this county and they really like to SHOW their 'power" by often doing such asshole things!!! This time I was the "victim" [I hate using that word but no other would fit] of their PROFOUND STUPIDITY!!!! At the ER I got one of the "psych" rooms...no having to give up my dress and robe for one of those skimpy gowns either...no security guard posted...I rolled in and out to go to potty room a few times and the staff just waved back as I went past them...me=not a threat obviously!!!!....as if they hadn't done enough crap to me already...I had to have the blood test & pee test...all fine...THEN :angry-fla I had to WAIT!!!! for the clinician from the center to assess me...waited THREE HOURS!!! Believe me I was SOOOOO PISSED!!! but I had to "act nice" so I could avoid being hospitalized up in their psych ward....after I answered HER questions...she asks me for my psycho doc's # and my therapist's # so she could get their input on whether to admit me....before she left to do her calls she told me if within a reasonable time the center would decide if I was to be hospitalized and they would err on the side of caution and "incarcerate" me....more TRAUMA...upstairs is just one big HORROR SHOW....i was there for 23.5 hours in May and was so verbally and mentally abused [i was suicidal in the first place!] that I was VERY TRAUMATIZED!!! when they released me....fortunately she was able to reach my psychodoc and he said no!...so I was released....MORE SHIT!!! I asked the nurse who gave me my going home instructions that I needed a cab as I had no $$s with me [like..really....who would think of even grabbing their wallet under the circumstances!!!] Can you believe she asked me if I had any money for a cab [:doh: !!!] I then told her I would need a voucher as all I had with me was my 2 rabbits blanket dress & robe....she astoundingly said that they didn't give out vouchers anymore [ I just heard another patient there ask and get one] I repeated my $$less state...she asked me if I had $$'s at home...I replied I did...she said then I could go into my building and go into my apt get $$s to pay cabbie....I tried to communicate that it was quite time consuming for me to do that....I was THEN asked AGAIN [yes she was a blonde!!!] if I wanted her to call a cab...I said YES....then played dumb from then on...cabbie came I got home and cabbie said "thaty'll be $4...me=you mean they didn't give you a voucher??? then said I would get on elevator go up 8 floors down entire hall to my apt a return with the 4 bucks...cabbie said noway he could wait that long and to just let it go...I was PISSED that the hospital stiffed him!!!! I am going to get a call from the Lt. of the detective dept...on Monday [I know his mom from the church I used to go to] I am starting an Investigation to verify that it was my sicko sister who made at least 4 calls [one 2:30 am friday + at least 2 more that day & the CORKER near 4 am Sat.] I heard that my cousin had saved tapes from her answering macine and that at least the Sat am message was rather garbled...cops were mad Sat. am for having had to drag me over to ER for what one said he thought was just a BIG MISUNDERSTANDING....and they were pissed because the center had insisted that they had to take me to ER even though the cops had found out that I was quite allright!!!! SOOOOO......how was your weekend last week????? Needless to say my PTSD symptoms have been OFF THE WALL!!! when I hear knocking [at my door or others'] I freak!!! as well as when I hear sirens!!!! and I live 8 floors above the bridge that emergency vehicles take most frequently to the hospital!!!! it's also set off horrendous nightmares & flashbacks of all sorts of trauma I've endured...my psycho doc called in a script for the new sleeping med just out that isn't supposed be addicting or with side effects of previous sleeping meds...I will just try it a few nights...it's called rozerom.....I will let you know what my experience is with
it......wildfirewildone:drugs:
 
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I'm pissed just reading this. I can only imagine how you're feeling about all this!

If it were me and my "sicko sister" did it, I would have to find out what kind of retribution was available to me...:boxem: and yes, I would be going after my "sister."

Hopefully your new sleeping pills will do the trick for you.

Take care...

Kim
 
Bloody hell wildfire... that is out of control. I give you huge credit for holding yourself together, because I would have been nothing be difficult the entire time, yelling and screaming at everyone that came near me that they f*cked up and are being led up the garden path by some sicko trying to cause trouble for you. Wow....

I am glad that your coming down a bit after that... and have no doubt that everything is off the charts at present with symptoms... I know mine would be. I am glad that Australia doesn't operate like that...
 
Guess I forgot to add to the saga....I very well intend to PRESS CHARGES!!!! It was one thing for my SICKO sister to keep calling me long after she called & I told her not to call me again this past April...[she had CONTROLLED our relationship(?) by never giving me her phone number for the past 9 years] I found out at Easter dinner [she did not attend] that every person in my FOO [family of origin] had her number but me...That was when I got mad!!! and set up the boundry...til mid September....she sounded pissed...It was one thing for her to hassle me BUT to hassle the one person I really care about...NO WAY!!!! Sis must have done a real number on my cousin as she told me never to call her again!!!...I am grieving that loss really BAD!!!! and I fear that I will lose the rest of my family too....I am holding myself together by putting everything behind a wall...not good I know....I have let my self cry some in my grief....once the phone records are gotten by the police....sis is really going to be in trouble with the law as her actions constitute phone harassment!!! If she tries to say"oh,it must have been one of my people" [she is DID] I will push for 60 to 90 days in the state hospital for her....I've checked...a person with DID doesn't go out to malisciously harm another person in order to get back at another person...wildfirewildone
I hope I can get sleep with new med...am waiting for rozerem to work!!
 
anthony said:
Bloody hell wildfire... that is out of control. I give you huge credit for holding yourself together, because I would have been nothing be difficult the entire time, yelling and screaming at everyone that came near me that they f*cked up and are being led up the garden path by some sicko trying to cause trouble for you. Wow....

I am glad that your coming down a bit after that... and have no doubt that everything is off the charts at present with symptoms... I know mine would be. I am glad that Australia doesn't operate like that...
the tears are starting to flow now....I really extremely sad....I had to hold it together that day at the ER...otherwise I couldn't have been able to overhear what the cops and staff were saying....also if I had started screaming and yelling...it would have been an instant ticket upstairs to their HELLHOLE of a psych unit!!! I will have cops call cousin and tell her the results of the investigation....maybe then I can have that relationship back....still there will be scars....I hope all of this goes to court...I will publicly blast sis!!!! I want that chance!!!! Can't sue....she in poverty like me.....wildfirewildone :frown: :frown: Then....I go after the center's actions....that was a gross miscarriage of their power!!! :naughty: I think I'll call in a newspaper reporter!!!! Will see......:dontknow:
 
wildfire,

i hate the mental health system in the US. it is SO FREAKING RIDICULOUS!!! i've had similar experiences in ER wards for various mental things. i swear to god, they need IQ tests for some of these workers. and i totally understand the psych ward traumatizing you. the mental hospital i was at traumatized me, too. i hope you'll start feeling better soon. that is such an awful experience. get some real sleep!! :)
 
my day was okay. i went to the mall today and i actually felt okay... probably because i was too absorbed in my mission to buy a new purse (i couldn't find one though!! they were all ugly...). so i'm pretty proud that i was able to be in such a loud, crowded place without being anxious. i was there for more than an hour, too! :)

i've been reallyreallyreally lonely lately. i miss my ex and i miss my friends. everyone's working or out of state or moving out or something. i watch Law&Order:SVU to pass the time, lol. also i wrote an open letter to my rapist ex in my livejournal... so if anyone ever googles his name, my entry explaining all the shit he put me through will show up. he's lived such a comfortable freaking life so far... i just want a future employer or future girlfriend to know exactly what kind of person he is. :cussing:

i keep forgetting to take my medication lately, though. if i go 72 hours without wellbutrin, i get the OH SO PLEASANT homicidal ideation withdrawal symptom. so, yes. i very much need to remember to take my meds in the morning because i don't remember when i last took them.

anyway i'm off to pretend to sleep. i hope everyone's day tomorrow is good!! :smile: :smile: :smile:
 
Hang in there secretstars... it does get better. Chances are, it will get worse whilst making it better, but then you come through it to the greener pastures, where only the little aspects need work, not the huge symptoms.
 
wow wildfire--i'd be pissed too if that happened to me...i agree with secretstars, some of those people seriosly need IQ tests

secretstars--good work. i think i speak for many here when i say we're proud of you too :)

purdyamos--yeah, it's terrible when it happens in public...several times i was in a position where i had to leave a class because somehting triggered me...it was nasty--i'd be out for half an hour and the class would end and then i'd go to get my stuff...and everyone'd be staring at me--yeah...not pleasent.
today was actually not too bad...even thoguh i only had about 4 hours of sleep. now it's close to midnight here so i'll head off and just wish everyone here some real sleep. night. RD
 
secretstars, I did the "mall challange" a week or so ago too, lol
and I wanted to give you a pat on the back for doing it!
You're right, it's a loud busy bustling place, usually crowded with people.
lol, I didn't buy anything when I went either,
but it's the whole "trip" that counts :)
Good Job!

Reallydown... how's your day been so far today?
Good or bad... we'd still love to know

I went through some major triggers today...
(taking a day-trip to the town where everything happened)
it was horrible and I ended up drinking... tsk tsk... bad girl
but I'm home and safe now... whew... it sucked but I got through it.

I ended up finishing my little suduko book...
mind puzzles help distract while travelling in vehicles. :)
 
secretstars said:
wildfire,

i hate the mental health system in the US. it is SO FREAKING RIDICULOUS!!! i've had similar experiences in ER wards for various mental things. i swear to god, they need IQ tests for some of these workers. and i totally understand the psych ward traumatizing you. the mental hospital i was at traumatized me, too. i hope you'll start feeling better soon. that is such an awful experience. get some real sleep!! :)
I did get :sleep: yay!!!! I was in bed by 11:15 pm....alarm went off at 7am...wanted to go to 9am Mass....wasn't quite sure about the effects of rozerum....if I would get drowsy while driving there or coming home...was awake for 45 minutes..got really drowsy[would have been on the road if I had gone to Mass]...anyway I went back to bed and slept til 3pm....still weepy...but much less agitated...had a bad dream but I didn't wake up terrified...GREAT!!! I sooooooooo much appreciate your support!! :clap: I have one hospital that I feel safe going to...almost 2 hour drive east of here...I don't like the fact that I have to go so far to avoid further TRAUMA....but at least I have that option!!! I have driven myself up there because if I go to any ER presenting "mental" problems I lose all rights to where I want to be admitted if that is necessary....I feel it is so unfair that an ER doctor or this Center has more rights to determine my medical future than I do....They are so backward in their knowledge of PTSD and of course they aren't going to believe what I tell them about it....and what symptoms I am showing they haven't a clue to understand let alone have the willingness to be compassionate towards me....:gunem-dow You know I feel that those of us who are :angry-fla with our mistreatment need to band together to try to change the system....It takes a lot of courage for any of us to do that....all that I know is that I can't do it alone!!! We are so scattered from each other location wise....it's hard to band together...I am going to try to connect once again with our local NAMI chapter to be an advocate for better treatment for us in ERs!!! I tried several months ago...but with physical problems resulting from vehicle accident early this year I was a bit hampered...I think that's a good goal for me today...find out where and time of next meeting....get myself back to the state of "I have a voice and I will not be SILENT"...I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!! I don't know where I get this courage...I think it has to do with having turned 50 and being so painfully aware that there are so many like like me who have sufferred are getting the same mistreatment as I have!!! I know for certain that groups can get things done more than one individual can....but each group begins with one person!!! I don't know what my future holds...I need to keep moving forward whenever I can find even the smallest bit of energy/courage..even if I am just putting one big toe forward of my other big toe!!! I think I need to take time now and do something for my self nourishment....ART!!!....I'm working on a paper mache goofy looking dinosaur...It already has the goofy look to his face and he's not even "plastered" yet!!! PEACE to ALL!!!!! ....wildfirewildone
 
Wildfire, that is great that you got yourself some good sleep. Excellent news.

You are absolutely correct about the one person making a difference, and by moving forward, you can make a change to yourself and others. The most important thing though, is that you need to be fixed first, before you can help others, otherwise your mental capacity diminishes rapidly... trust me on that one, as I have done it before and learnt my lesson.

Your one very tough and strong person, and that is an added bonus to helping you recover from PTSD all that bit faster. Keep up the great work.
 
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