Medical Ptsd From Psych Ward

[lisse1980]

I read the criteria for PTSD. Don't you think imprisonment, with no idea when or if you will be released in a place that can best be described as hell and being subjectief to repeated denial of privacy, cold communal showers with men and women telling you to scrub harder in a language you do not know. You only speaking English, very little Spanish in a Central American Psychiatric hospital. Not even knowing really where you are. Iron beds, no pillows, you have to,find sheets. I could not put mine on. I am in my 60s and have a bad shoulder. Could not get out of the bed to go to the bathroom. No help from nurses. No towels for that they use old sheets.

Clothing in huge trucks I couldn't wear the dressed because you have to tie behind your back . I can't . I would have to find someone to help me. I used a cane, most were much younger women. I had to line up for everything snd could barefly stand. There was screaming sometimes all night. I had almost no communication since few knew any English. I know the month of this did cause PTSD in me. It has been three years. A day doesn't go by I am not reminded. I see a woman washing the floor. Reminds me of young women cleaning there and I wanted to,trade places. It was imprisonment. No one to ask snything it was a nightmare. It never goes away.

 

[recoveringfromptsd]

Not all Psych wards are good places, especially decades ago

@Gia1019 Its nice to see a familiar member Doing ok at the moment, back in Emdr protocol

Your telling us this was in a foreign county sheds light, and I agree that experience would be traumatic. In fact in the same circumstance I would not have survived it.